I think I’ve said before here that my favorite times to run are dawn and dusk - all the times where it isn’t fully light. So in the summer, you might find me out before 6am or at 9pm!
If I run in the morning at dawn then I can stay outside doing other things like walking, gardening, biking, etc. till dusk!!! I enjoy it on all ends. 
I like the extra light.
Yesterday was my 1st double of the spring. 60 minutes coaching kindergarten soccer which worked to 4K steps, followed by 90 minutes of playing (with a break for dinner between).
Before retired, I sometimes took early morning summer runs. It was lovely. I found that I could go to the trail a little earlier than sunrise time noted on the weather app and have a really lovely run. Alas, it was a pesky job with need to first review emails from international coworkers in much earlier timezones to ensure it was an OK day to go. Don’t miss that!
I spent a long weekend at my mom’s celebrating her 90th. No healthy food was had. At all.
I now have a clearer idea of how I got the way I did about food. Potato salad is the closest we got to a vegetable all weekend.
Just checking in. I continue to do my biking and/or walking, along with rowing (but only 2K meters at a time or my shoulder hurts). I even got up and rode 19 miles this morning before heading out to be gone much of the day.
I am trying to “be good” regarding food this week because we ate way too much on our vacation, and I have to get weighed on Thursday at my doc’s office. I don’t weigh myself at home, and I’m always “stressed” about it at docs.
I confess that getting weighed at the doctor’s is one of the big reasons I don’t go, or only when I HAVE to. I can’t do weight numbers or I get too obsessed. And I hate that I’m that way and that stresses me/depresses me even more.
In the last couple of years, I started to just refuse to get weighed. Nurses make faces at me; but for me it’s better than the alternative. I’ve tried the turn around and don’t tell me, but somehow I always see the number somewhere.
This is such a good point. It’s easy to say that “we” should not be so bothered/obsessed with weight - but we aren’t 6 month old babies - do we really need to get weighed every time we go in? A good question to ask a doc sometime! I mean I get it, but it’s such a good point that there are WAY more questions we can ask to determine a person’s health lifestyle!!!
The weight number without any context is almost useless. When they weigh me, I’m fully clothed with keys, wallet and phone in my pockets. That can’t be useful.
I literally wait with baited breath and anticipation for someone to say something, anything, related to BMI. 
I already know what I’d say and do. 
Well I had a different morning. I fell while running. I wasn’t running particularly fast, but it was downhill on concrete. There was a wire stretched out across the sidewalk that I didn’t see and got my feet all tangled up. Fortunately, I was wearing capris. My knee was bleeding, but it could have been worse. My hands and elbow also got a fare amount of road rash. I was a teensy bit miffed as I was sitting sprawled out on the sidewalk that I got passed by a few cars and not one stopped for the old lady laying on the sidewalk at 5am. but then again, I probably would have been creeped out if someone did stop. They just can’t win. I dusted myself off and finished my workout (50 min run, 30 min bike, abs, mobility work, and arm balance work) I felt fine, but now I’m started to feel some general aches. As long as it doesn’t get worse, it’ll be OK.
Take care @ClassicMom98. Sorry about the fall and glad it wasn’t worse.
Oh gosh, and ouch!! The wire sounds like a trap!!! Was it just a loose not attached to anything wire? Glad it wasn’t any worse - sounds like a tough conditions fall!
I ran and did NOT fall this morning. Starting to see a little more light in the morning. Between that and nice new streetlights on our boulevard I feel pretty good getting out pre-dawn.
No it wasn’t a trap. I’d guess construction debris that fell off a truck.
Weighed myself this morning for the first time in days to see the damage from a weekend of crappy eating. Only one pound! I’ll take it!
@ClassicMom98 Yikes! Glad you sound OK. I took my just-turned 90yo mom for a walk this weekend, and we did it in record time (almost a mile in 22 minutes 
). But I’m so worried that she will fall. My siblings won’t let her walk by herself anymore, but they won’t go with her! She didn’t get to 90 in excellent health by being sedentary. I feel sorry for her so I make sure that we get some exercise when I’m in town. Not comparing you to a 90yo, of course, but falling is such a concern the older I get.
My mom was an avid swimmer, walker and gardener until literally the day of her death in November at age 88. To take away her daily walk would be devastating to her. But while generally in great health, she sometimes was off balance a bit. I got her a walking stick (poles) a few years ago (NOT A CANE MOM!!!) and she warmed up to it and I think it became a bit of a balance comfort on her walks. Sometimes she used it all of a walk and sometimes she didn’t - but had it if needed. For some reason a walking stick was cool!
She was very independent and especially the last couple of years with COVID her walk literally saved her sanity and allowed her to see some people.
Her walking sticks have been the one think I CANNOT remove from her house. I see them and they sort of defined her. I have already decided that the last thing to be removed from her house when sold will be her walking sticks. <3
All to say @Youdon_tsay , would your mom be open to a walking stick for assistance and balance on her walks?
She might. Especially if I took one, too. But the walks are so infrequent at this point. She’s been diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s so I don’t blame my sibs for not letting her walk alone (I don’t either). I just wish they’d take her. 
Under those conditions, of course walking alone makes no sense! I see what you’re saying - please sibs, find a little time to take mom in the fresh air for a walk!
Hope the fall doesn’t cause bad aches and pains.
I got my 2nd COVID booster this morning, and I’m hoping for minimal aches and pains myself. Scheduled to walk at 1. I think I’ll be fine then, but may be achy a little later. Taking Tylenol in an hour or so. Pharmacist said I could wait up to 6 hours, but I will likely take it about 3 hours after shot.
Ouch-- hope you feel OK soon
Checking in. I don’t feel amazing, but some of it could be chalked up to general achiness/crankiness. My palms actually bother me the most. It’s amazing how much you use your hands. My wrist, and top of my foot by the ankle, and knee talk to me every now and then to let me know they’re there. But they don’t seem badly injured or anything, and otherwise I thought I felt OK. Worked out out as usual, but I seemed a bit tired by the end, And now at my desk, I’m just grumbly and would rather go back to bed. Of course, the back to back 1:30 meetings that I have this morning that will be packed and unmaksed are probably contributing to my mood. I get out and about a lot more than many on here, but I’m just not sure I’m ready for this. I also had to take our my contact at work because my eyes were too gooey, so I’m operating blind. I won’t be able to see anything in the meetings anyway!
I went swimming for 30-45 minutes, first time this year, I just walked to the pool and I had it all to myself. My left leg was injured years ago, so after all the kicking and swimming, it got tired, that’s when I decided to quit, not to overdoing it on my first swim. Very relaxing and enjoying, the pool is surrounded by palm trees, the birds were singing, one duck got into the swimming pool before I did, I had to shoo it away. Almost paradise comes to mind.