Just sharing my yesterday.
AM–walked to the polls to vote 1.5 miles round trip
PM-- parents vs kids 2nd grade soccer game which was someplace around 3K of steps
evening-- 90 minutes of pickup which was between 8 and 9K of steps
Day ended with 18.7 K of steps, I left the post-soccer bar earlier because I was just exhausted
Great exercise day and THANK YOU for voting!
I continue to do my thing. Now at 4 days of pickleball most weeks, and we may have done our last outdoor bike ride for awhile last week. Walking or elliptical/indoor bike on other days.
My little pity party… I am normally one of the top players in my pickleball group. I am taking a drills class kind of thing, and our leader says I need to do a new kind of serve. It’s hard for me to step back from mostly winning to “not so much.” The serve I’m supposed to do is a drop serve where you swing kind of like you would in softball. I was never a ball player, and it’s hard/unnatural for me. I wish I would have started trying it a year ago. I keep trying…
Fall soccer is now over. I coached 10 games over the weekend (6 Saturday and 4 Sunday). After Sunday’s games, my wife and I walked to dinner so I ended up with 14.5K steps on Saturday and 19.5K on Sunday.
My HS teams both were in our annual tournament and played 4 games each. Girls lost on penalties in the final to a team that had beat them 3-0 the day before so it felt like a win. Boys got thumped on Saturday and bounced back with 2 great wins in the consolation games.
Congrats! after reading that, I miss the soccer days…
Gosh what an exciting weekend!
I LOVED our soccer days!!! Except the very cold ones. And windy ones. And hot ones. LOL. Seriously;, loved them all!
At our very coldest/windiest soccer day, I went home at halftime to fetch a laundry basket of assorted coats/hats plus blankets. Shared them with spectators on both teams. The goalie was in shorts. When the coach (also her Dad) encouraged her to run faster she said - “If I run any faster, my legs will crack off!”. Some memories stay with you.
I don’t miss all the soccer travel. I’m glad I can watch the games on tv now. 
Another day that going to the gym paid off. Look what I found in the parking lot! It was pouring rain and thus it was sopping wet, but it’s still very well intact! And the first day of rain in a month. We need it desperately to help put out fires. My sister’s school system has been out.
So no run for me. I did 40 min of hard stairmonster intervals followed by 40 minutes of bike intervals. Then abs and lifting. This is the deload week, so it’s pretty nice.
@Youdon_tsay , I have to ask this here because I don’t want to make the Friendsgiving thread about being good/fast/competitive…
I’m curious about why you mention that you start out “jogging” before “running” - in your mind, what is the difference - or do you have a drawn in the sand line where jogging becomes running?
Strictly my opinion - and I don’t know how old you are - but especially for non-competitive racers (new runners, casual runners, over 50 or whatever runners…) if it’s not walking, it’s RUNNING!!!
Nice pay for getting out this morning!!! That would be enough to get me moving! 
Raining here too today and also the first rain in a LONG time. It was inside cardio for me.
The training program breaks it into jogging and running so that’s what I do. 
I think it started with 1/2 mile jog, then 1/2 mile run, 1/2 mile jog, 1/2 mile run. The last workout before the race is supposed to be 1 mile jog, 1 mile run, 1/2 mile jog, .7 mile run. I started out with a 15-minute jog and a 13:30 run and have gotten a little faster over the weeks, doing parts of my “run” sections as a 12-minute mile. Yesterday, my 5k was run at speeds from 13:30- to 12-minute miles.
Now I understand “why” you used that terminology. Your training program was using it!! My initial running programs used WALK vs RUN - pick your pace for either!
When I first started running at age 53 - and on this board maybe on the previous “part 1” thread I remember seasoned runners saying “jogging is a dis to the running world…if you’re not walking or crawling it’s called RUNNING!”
I’m glad that I don’t care what other people think as that article would put me in the jogger category, it seems. 
My marathons were in the 10-minute mile range, but I also was in my 30s and more tightly wound than I am now. I think the training regimen was just some slower running and some faster running, whatever that means to you.
I agree that jogging requires a different gait than walking. I only started running back in the day because I didn’t feel like I could walk any faster – I was locking my knees, and it just didn’t feel good so I started jogging.
I think I’ve mentioned this guy before, who used to be an elite runner and now coaches. His posts are not just tied to running. I find that I can extrapolate a lot of what he’s saying to other areas of my life. I like what he posted today because Rangers. But also, be joyful!
Yeah, I didn’t agree or support that whole article (and the specific jogging/running paces) but thought it did address the topic here and there throughout the article.
To expand on the whole signing up for a race vs. not…I did some races the first few years of running…I am not a competitive person, my pace NEVER was anything to compare to a majority of runners on a course so “racing” was never my goal. And I also wasn’t always a fan of the race loot - unless it’s a female cut tshirt I HATE traditional tshirts!!!
I also didn’t need the “thrill” of being in a group running - I actually love the solo part of it. So, I stopped signing up for races for the most part. Covid helped with that too. At 64 I am perfectly happy to “do it my way” - it might be a 5K run but I also might just do a mile or so after work just to shake out the day. Distance doesn’t matter to me, pace doesn’t matter - what matters to ME is just that I enjoy it and feel good afterwards. No matter the duration!
I have only done one 5K event, a timed fun run (got passed by a young gal pushing a baby carriage). It was at my local lake trail, as culmination to the city walk/run class also same trail. Someday I’d like to do a 5k race, but I don’t like the logistics involved for most of them.
I don’t think I’ll ever be fast enough for a 10k, even if I train for it. But that’s ok, the 5k a few times a week (plus some other walking, biking) seems about the amount of wear and tear on this 61 year old body. Interesting I’ve found that the small aches (very small, not complaining, just observing) come when I have NOT been out running.
Those little aches and pains, I think that is a huge benefit of my shake out 1-1.5 mile runs! A great body stretch out after a day of less activity sitting at a desk!
A few times a year I do a second “lake loop”, to get 10K (plus some extra walking). It has to be the right combo of weather, clothing layers, energy and free time. Today was one of those days. I did some walking during the last 1km when my back was hurt a bit, but I still consider it as a 10k run (well actually 5kx2 - I restart mapmyrun for the second, slower part).
Now it’s time to run the leaves and branches to waste diversion center. A bit of functional exercise Yes, I do love the flexibility of retirement schedule. Very thankful for the health that allows me to go out and enjoy the sunshine.
Just catching up.
My gym finally installed the rope climb, which we had in the old location. The gym’s owner told me that it cost $750 to install with the 20’ ceilings and the crazy fabrication they had to do. All for me, mainly.
So, for the past couple weeks, I’ve done about 4 workouts with the rope climb. I’m very thankful for the rope climb. The gym owners didn’t have to go through all that trouble, essentially just for me.
Wednesday was hang cleans with the HIIT consisting of 400m runs, jump rope, burpee pullups and hang cleans.
10K Turkey Trot yesterday (Thanksgiving).
Today, I worked up to a heavy-ish 5-rep max deadlift and then one of my favorite HIIT’s was programmed. Two movements:
Toes-to-bar
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Deadlifts (bodyweight)
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
So, 10 rounds, Round #1 is 1 toes-to-bar and 10 deadlifts. Round #2 is 2 toes-to-bar and 9 deadlifts. Round #3 is 3 toes-to-bar and 8 deadlifts. I hate deadlifts, but I do enjoy this workout a lot.
