Stunning!!!
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I took my measurements and pictures yesterday. Blah. Not the ego boost, but motivation. Then of course I’ll have pizza and cake tonight. I don’t eat crappy outside of Saturdays often, but my mom’s 75th bday is one of those occasions.
In any case, I thought I’d go to the gym for a 30 min stairmonster session to help offset it a little. I haven’t been on a weekend since they quit the 24-7 hours back in nov. I did really well. Strongest I’ve been on it in awhile. I may start doing that some. It felt great.
Afterwards I was practicing my handstands and forearms stands. An old guy told me “impressive! If I was in your shape, I’d be sitting on the couch watching TV.” lol. I said that was coming later.
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Yesterday, I had a huge steak and baked potato and sour cream, plus a plateful of fruit and salad, on top of 3 ginger biscuits from Fortnum and Mason(gifts from the girls for my husband’s BD), surprisingly I lost weight, 1/2 lbs, all I did was swimming and gardening, however I’m still not at the lowest weight yet. I did achieve for a brief day and then it went up, I’m now just a pound over that lowest weight.
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During crawl space declutter (a topic for a different thread), I found some old Zena jeans from college. They were from the time after I spent a summer taking fitness classes, my adult low water mark or weight. The good new was I could pull them up, just barely. The bad news was the big gapping V where the zipper would not go up at all. I’m only 12lb more now, but boy do I wear the weight differently now. That’s OK. Forty years later the jeans don’t fit, but now I can run 3 miles (sometimes 5 or 6 if the weather is ideal).
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Today was longer and harder than yesterday. The fact that we had high winds and sheeting rain all day definitely added to the adventures.
The hardest bit was gaining 600 feet of altitude in 1/2 mile. Basically we walked up that stream bed
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Beautiful!
“high winds and sheeting rain” - yikes, just reading that makes me realize I’m a wimpy traveler … not sure I’d get through that. How wonderful that you persevered!
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I hate it when the weather shows rain so you adjust your activity, then you get up and the weather has changed so it’s now going to rain during the new time. Vent over!
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been there… done that
It was a beautiful morning today and I took advantage of the weather to and ran 5.5 miles. With the move, Covid and fall, that is the longest run I have taken since March. I’m also getting into a regular yoga routine again withe the free AM yoga at the lake.
Now if only I could find a running group that works for me…
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I’ve only been running on the curved manual treadmill lately. Occasionally, my HIIT will be a EMOM of thrusters on the minute and then accumulating calories (50, 100, 150) on the CMT. Brutal workout, but I really enjoy that HIIT.
Long runs on the CMT have been a mile, but yesterday, I finally ran the trail by the Bay for first time in a long time. Two laps around for 5 miles. Hot and windy, though the wind never seemed to be at my back for some reason. 
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First half of today was incredible. We had a long up hill to climb up over a ridge. Because of the rain yesterday, the streams were full of water. I lost track of the number of stream crossing. We then walked through some flat areas with amazing views.
The 2nd part of the day was a long slog off the ridge.
Distance was over 8 miles and our walk to/from dinner put me over 30K steps.
I discovered that unless the GPS is turned on Fitbit miles are rubbish. They are simply calculated by number of times typical stride length. So on a day like today with tons of short steps, miles are totally bogus. For our reference on this trip, I’m going to multply guidebook miles by 1.5 to get an estimate
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I had a good morning. Since my several of my lifting workouts are 60 minutes now, it makes me a bit rushed on time. So, I had the bright idea instead of running/gym cardio to run to the gym/cardio/run home. I used to do it a lot, but haven’t lately. It saves 10 min plus a few cents in gas. The run was good, but I had forgotten that a lady is always on my stairmonster at that time. No biggie, I rode the bike instead. Bike was strong and the runs were pretty decent for me lately. Workout was Day 8 - Total Body Core. 3 rounds of all the exercises in a row, 10 reps each. I think this is the easiest format and I felt much stronger at the exercises than last week. Hopefully, I won’t be as sore, lol.
I plan to do the same format tomorrow. I think the lady goes M-W-F, but who knows. Maybe she’ll change it up too…
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Today was 8.5 miles up and over a ridge. At dinner last night DW and i had a talk about the mental aspects of exercise and how sometimes you just have to will yourself on. We finished nearly 2 hours earlier today than yesterday.
Weather was still grim–brutal winds as we topped the ridge and then heavy rain getting down.
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We had some REI dividend credit to spend, so I splurged on a new lightweight hat for running. It folds in a pocket and will be good for traveling too. Special bonus - little pocket on back. (I’ve only used it for a tissue since the pocket is open). Photo is from my local lake trail (about 3.5 miles around), where I run 5k a few days a week. In summer now that I’m retired I do the “bike commute” (3 miles round trip) instead of driving.
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cute!!! I have too much thick curly hair for a hat to work.
Jealous of thick curly hair! Part of my reasoning for the hat is to avoid putting sunscreen on the part of my scalp.
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Love the hat (and you!) and the scenery! I’m so jealous of these pics
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I’m sure it was exhausting, but still so beautiful.
It was weirdly less exhausting then yesterday. We had an entirely different mental attitude today which helped.
Tomorrow is a super long day.
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I got this hat at REI also. (They don’t have the color I got at REI any longer). I am NOT a hat person, and I don’t look good in hats, but this one is very light and foldable. I am spending a lot of time outside this year, and my hair is thinning so I need a hat too.
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