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11-11-21, 12:29 PM | ||
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
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Vannie - Yes, I have been basically doing a run, a ride and a row almost every day for the 3 months since the bike was delivered. I'm not recommending this approach, it just evolved because I love all three activities and have a hard time picking one to skip. (See my comment above to Alison. It's a repeating pattern in my life.) Anyway, all the workouts go great for a while and then, of course, one day I am exhausted and need a day or two to recharge. I try to do more walking and less running and sometimes I even succeed. Back later.
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11-12-21, 12:20 AM | |
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Yesterday I was in the kitchen most of the day so no workouts. Today I struggled to find energy for anything. I folded some laundry but that was pretty much it for housework. I did do a Halloween Zumba warmup, Jill Miller's YTU hips and butt floor massage, Caroline Jordan 15-min Glute Activation workout, and a 20 min Fightmaster Halloween yoga practice.
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11-15-21, 10:15 AM | |
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Northern Virginia
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I’m back from my super-fun hiking weekend. Thursday was a 4-mile hike with a very hard uphill .5 mile rock scramble. I was pleasantly surprised on how well I did with it—I guess the box jumps are working. Friday was an 8-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail to the iconic ledge (on the VA AT license plates) McAfee Knob. I’ve wanted to go there for so long, and it didn’t disappoint. Saturday was 4 miles to Crabtree Falls, which was the highest falls I’ve ever seen in-person. It just kept going!
Today kicks off the 18-week Higdon novice marathon training program. I’ll see how this goes the first few weeks and decide if I’m sticking with the full or changing to the half. I know I *can* do it, but I don’t know if I want to commit to those long runs in February. |
11-15-21, 03:00 PM | |
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
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Alison - Crabtree Falls is on my bucket list! (I went to school in Charlottesville, not that far away.) It sounds like a great trip. Box jumps sound like they are really working for you. Cycling centuries probably builds really strong legs and endurance too. I'm very eager to see how your Higdon training goes. You've got a really solid foundation, that's for sure.
Vannie - Your glutes should feel like individual queens after the workouts you mentioned. They deserve to be pampered! Pratima - Hope you're reveling in the rest of the country's complaints about switching the clocks while all you Arizonans just smirk. You've rolled off my ("quick reply") page, but IIRC, you are planning to run a race soon? Or maybe that's just me and my wishful thinking. Hope you're doing well despite your dad's declining health. It's hard. Me - I got my spirit recharged this weekend. It was wonderful. Here's why: WONDERFUL WORKOUTS:
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11-16-21, 06:54 AM | ||
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This morning I did an easy Leanne 80s ride and then 30 min of Aditi’s Pilates on the Peloton app. I like her Pilates style. She doesn’t have too many classes on the app to choose from though. Hopefully they’ll do more soon. Lunchtime will be a 3-mile run. Most of the lunchtime runs this month are only 3 miles, so that’s very do-able. I’m not sure how I’ll handle it when they go up, but I’ll figure something out. |
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11-17-21, 11:04 AM | |
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Snowman Land :)
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What is RED? Is it her new song or does she have a book out or what?
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11-17-21, 12:34 PM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Total drive-by post. I'm here. My dad and grandma are OK, though he gets some crazy idea every week (e.g., last week he told my brother he's selling everything and moving to India). DH's dad is actually in the hospital so he's flying out Friday to hopefully get him into some sort of assisted living.
I had surgery Thursday. I'd seen the surgeon for a suspected Spigelian hernia. I had a CT and it showed an umbilical hernia so her plan was to fix that and look around with the laporoscope for others. Well, she found no hernias and removed my appendix. I'm kind of baffled and my follow-up isn't until Dec. 1 so I'm going to call today and leave a message for the medical assistant about this. Recovery has been kind of rough. I laid really low Thur-Sun. DH has gotten home from work the past three days and driven the kids to school. I had to pick them up though and driving Monday afternoon was AWFUL. I have a small incision near my bikini line (just above my c-section scar) and another at my belly button. I can't really bend over or use my core, so very limited activity and lots of sleep! I am working this week though. Finally feel better today, and thank goodness since DH will be gone Fri-Mon. I may be up for a walk this weekend. Going to test it all out with a little walk around Target this afternoon! Hopefully I will return with more. In the meantime, I'm living vicariously through Alison's FB pictures!
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11-17-21, 05:20 PM | ||
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Pratima - You had your APPENDIX REMOVED! HOLY COW! I never heard of going in for a hernia and coming out with an appendectomy. I hope your family waits on you hand and foot, although you strike me as the kind that insists on being up and active as quickly as possible. I hope the trip to Target worked out okay.
Alison - I never heard of MarieBette until you wrote this. Now I'm planning a daytrip to Charlottesville with Jamie and one of her friends just so we can go to MarieBette. Hilarious. Thanks for recommending Aditi's Pilates. I really like the Hydrow Pilates classes with Christie and have been sticking to those now I have got more choices. Quote:
She is a mastermind. Taylor outwitted the music industry villain who had purchased the rights to her music with a workaround that allowed her to re-record and re-release her own albums so that she still retains some control over her own music. And then because she really is brilliant, she is everywhere on social and mainstream media, has a partnership with Starbucks, is on SNL, etc etc. She's phenomenal and I applaud her. But, just my opinion, but I'm not thrilled with the way her way-too-old-to-be-dating-a 20-year old jerk boyfriends (cough cough John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal) have become the target of a vengeful mob. They deserved to get roasted in her songs and to have to reflect on their thoughtless and selfish behavior, but standing someone up or not holding their hand in public doesn't forfeit their right to live, for heavens sakes. (This is where my view diverges from my daughter's. She says, let 'em burn, they deserve it!)
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