As part of my return to the gym post vax life, went to a Bosu ball class with a bunch of women half my age and felt like a total beginner. LOL! I had a flash back to when I first went to that gym and felt the same way.
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1214mom - Good for you for cleaning the deck furniture. You were able to combine a bit of fitness with a productive chore!
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Deck furniture yesterday, hardwood floors today. I Bona’d all of our hardwood floors this morning. Then I did rowing for 30 minutes (5310m - I think that’s about the quickest I’ve done, but I don’t try to go fast), and the elliptical for 30 minutes. I usually do some very light weights in the evening when the news is on, but otherwise that’s it for me today.
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I had good timing today to get my walk in before the rain. They put the dock back in but left the piece where I have been doing stepups, so won’t have to find an alternative. Maybe it was there last summer, I don’t remember. When there are more people around including sitting on it and then I’ll pass. On only a couple occasions I’ve had to do only one of my out and back route. I have also not filled in the depression I have made in the sand, considering it my slight increase in height as the days go on. (not my car, but others do park here and walk around the area, I can walk from my house)
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Love seeing pics! I couldn’t get any great ones here at 5am in the dark. On a side note, one of my regular routes takes me by a certain warehouse. It’s been a long empty tobacco warehouse until recently. Now it processes marijuana. Oh my, the smells I now get on my runs.
It was 35* this morning. Wish I could have run more this morning, but I dinged my AT doing yoga yesterday. Flying crow of all things. Was not thrilled. I did a gentle 15 min jog on it outside the gym before doing a longer stint on the stairmonster and bike. Came home and did Day 24 AAA in the shed. It was tough, but today is one of the kids’ bday, so I always remind myself no matter how hard it is, I feel better than I did then!
I texted him a happy bday when I got up and was surprised when he replied a little after 6. I laughed and asked if he woke up for his exact bday time. He said his alarm went off then (at his exact birth time) for some reason - it was not set. Creepy, but creepy things happen with us. I used to decorate the kids’ rooms in the middle of the night on their bdays. Once H helped me. At exactly midnight, his train alarm clock went off. it was not set either. Oh, and single street lights always turn off and on as I go by on my runs. At least once on every run. It used to creep me out, but I’m used to it now after ~25 years.
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Wow those are some strange coincidences!!!
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A lot more weird things happened when my grandfather died and the few weeks afterwards - and I was pregnant with S. I like to think it’s his way of letting us know he’s watching out for us. He always said he would and would let us know if he could.
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Very sore today. Lordy I lost fitness over the last year. But it feels good to be sore and be back.
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Sore - which is not PAIN - not a bad thing! Your efforts were worthy!!!
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@Lizardly - Good job on getting back to exercise! Sometimes getting started is that hardest part.
YAY - after 2 weeks of minimal exercise (2nd Covid jab, then bad weather kept me lazy)… I went for an outside run today. The trail was mostly dried out after the 6 inches of wet snow on Monday night, and the 40s/sunny weather was grand. I was pleased to have a pretty good (for me) 5k time. An upcoming long road trip will mean not much chance to run in May, so it was great to get out today.
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Can you run on your road trip? I have a running list of states I have run in - I’ll do a mile in any state I can to add to my list!
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Fun idea to have a state-list for running.
I’ll bring pack some running clothes for our cross-country trip, but not sure if I’ll have much opportunity to run. Mostly we’ll spend our time driving and visiting with family and friends in 3 (or 4 or 5) different cities. I definitely will have time to listen to books, but that is a discussion in another thread 
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Like @abasket I have a list of states I have run in. I have also run in England (London) and in Dublin, Ireland. I always pack running clothes.
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Yes it’s always so fun to say to myself…”omg, I’m running in France/Canada/Portland - or wherever!”
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My two kids have a thing about running together on trips (which is a rare treat being together, since they live 2000 miles apart). After the younger graduated college in 2015, we took one of our very few vacations with “just us”, not visit to see extended family. We visited Rome 4 nights (daughter wanted Italy), Venice 1 night (good train stop), Munich 4 nights (son wanted Germany). They arranged early morning runs together in all 3 locations, while I slept. This was before I was a runner, but I could have never kept up with them anyway. In Rome and Munich there were river trails. In Venice they ran the streets and have fun comments about how it was also a step workout, with all the bridges. Their other tradition is to seek out Irish bars together … I think they were 2 of 3 on that trip.
I am happy my May trip is by car. It is harder to pack running gear when we fly since we like to limit our luggage to carry-on.
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Last weekend, we went down to the Central Coast here in CA to visit the college my D will be attending in the Fall. I packed my barbell and a couple bumper plates in the car.
I trust going to my local gym in terms of Covid conditions (or lack thereof), but I didn’t even try to visit the hotel’s gym nor did I want to go to any local gyms, which is my new normal for now.
Yesterday’s workout was 5x10 of deadlifts and bench press. And the HIIT was 3 rounds of 30 air squats, 30 pushups and 30 wall balls. Time was 14:45. Time cap was 15 minutes. Under normal circumstances those pushups would be easier, but after 50 reps on the bench press, the old arms were a tad tired.
It appears that my exercise programming has begun to “gear up” towards Memorial Day’s “Murph” workout, which is the most infamous workouts in my exercise regimen.
1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 air squats
1 mile run
All performed with a weighted vest, or not, if someone wants to scale the workout. The pro’s will do it in sequence, completing the workout in order. The schmucks, like me, will “partition” the workout, by doing 10 rounds of 10/20/30 or 20 rounds of 5/10/15. Last year, I did the first 7 rounds 10/20/30 and then 6 rounds of 5/10/15. The pushups are the bugaboo for most.
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Yesterday, I took my Fitbit off to wash dishes and didn’t put it back on before going to coach. I ended up with less than 1K of steps for the day :).
Tonight we did our Friday walk to a gastropub. We did 2.8 miles there and roughly 2 home.
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Added a second spin class this week. I’m still very sore! Just shows how much I needed that.
I have been running and walking and swimming, but early in the pandemic I stopped doing the weights and ab work. No good reason. I just didn’t like virtual classes.
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I walked 9 or so miles yesterday. I’ve done nothing that counts as official exercise today, but I have been doing chores.
Tomorrow we hope to go on a 40 mile bike ride.
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Finished phase 1 today. Cardio flow is the easiest of the days, but I had a solid run/stairmonster session beforehand. I had put together a new route (same roads, different pattern) and one part had been taking me 27 min. Today i didn’t check my watch until the end, and it took me 25:15. Very pleased with that. It didn’t feel any harder. Now it’s raining and belchy outside. I can’t really complain, since the weather has been lovely the past few weeks.
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