A rare beautiful warm day. Lots of yard work followed up by heavy deadlifts and volume squats.
Used the podcast trick again with the same result — less distractions & less dilly-dallying.
I’m your average 3-4 miles at a time walker or runner. I have my phone and headphones - key if I need it for the house or car. About half the time I wear a waistpack bandeau that can hold the phone. Sometimes I just hold it. Phone is for my music and my tracking app(s). Also for emergency! I wear my Fitbit.
Never thought about the tissue though I could have used that a few times!
The rain finally stopped. We quickly unloaded our dirt (mud?) from the truck and filled the garden beds. Oofff… shoveling wet topsoil is a good weightlifting alternative. 
Here’s an intriguing new study for anyone who finds exercise too time-consuming: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/well/coronavirus-exercise-heart-health.html
For running/lifting, I wear my nathan belt that holds my phone, keys, and tissue. I also wear an iPod shuffle. Depending on the route, I might also have my headlamp. If I do a long run (over 90 min), I carry a fuel belt with water/Powerade. In the real gym, I use my wired earbuds & phone for my workouts, so I need the belt for that. Club C-gym nobody is around so I can have it on the floor as loud as I want.
If we do a shorter hike (2 hours), I wear a fanny pack that holds more - mostly allergy meds, inhaler, sun screen. A longer hike (3-5 hours) I’ll take a backpack with more stuff.
ClassicMom98 - a 20 min 5k is definitely national class. A 20-21 minute 5k puts you 2nd for women 45-49 at USATF Masters Outdoor in 2018 and 3rd in 2019.
I carry kleenex b/c of allergies.
I always carry my phone in an arm pocket. I have fallen a few times and had to call H to pick me up.
If the run is more than 3-4 miles or its hot outside I carry a hand held water bottle, and if more than 8 miles I add some running beans (I think that’s what they are called).
I carry paper towels because they don’t dissolve in sweat.
Let me put in a plug for RoadID for those going outside to walk, run, cycle etc. It’s an ID band- can be a shoe tag, bracelet or a plate that attaches easily to FitBit or Garmin. The engrave your emergency information on it. They are inexpensive and really an essential thing in case something happens and you can’t talk or identify yourself.
4.5 miles this morning. Beautiful morning, but I was either too tired, dehydrated (wine as a hydrator might not work in the evening), or just one of those days. HR way to high even with walking breaks. BUT- I got it done and can log it on my Virtual Race Across Tennessee chart.
I just took a look at the web site. I like the RoadID shoe tag!
Spent an hour on a kettle bell workout and then most of a HASfit and a few TRX moves after one after a day off yesterday. Not even a walk. I burned a few calories sweeping and mopping our screen porch and moving the furniture!
The RoadID tags are an excellent suggestion. If for any reason you are hesitant (really anyone who wanders from home should have some safety nets in place) you can also download the ROADID app and if you designate your “person” or two, AND if you start it when you’re heading out for a walk,hike, bike, run or whatever it will also notify your “person” people via a text and will let them know you are out and about - I think they can also then check your location. You can estimate the amount of time you’ll be gone and it you go beyond that by a certain amount of minutes and don’t readjust it, it will notify your “person” so they can check on you.
IMO no one is looking at your shoe for ID. If you are injured and unable to speak, you want your ID big, around your neck on your chest. I don't think EMTs will even look at your wrist. They will open your shirt and stick on ECG leads though, after they have scraped you off the tarmac. I have a plastic wallet with my ID, a copy of my insurance info, and my contacts. If you are badly inured no one will look up your contacts until later in the process. I am just hopeful I get taken to an in service ER LOL.
Runners don’t run with ID on their chest- unless it is the dog tag version. EMTs know to look for ID on the wrist. The problem with shoes is that in a traumatic event the shoes can fly off.
I have a dog tag with my name and emergency phone #'s that I thread my shoelace through. It is literally a dog tag, I made it at PetSmart.
This was a hot topic among my running friends as well. I do not carry ID. I don’t have any medical issues that first responders would need to know about and if I’m unconscious I thrust them to treat me just like any other unconscious person. Within a few hours, my family would miss me and find me… probably before anyone at the hospital even has the chance to rifle my belongings.
Plus… the Libertarian in me just bristles at the idea that I should have to carry ID. Too much like “papers, please!” Rubs me the wrong way. And I’m OK with the potential consequences of taking that risk by not carrying it.
Many of my friends do and I understand why. Reasonable people can believe different things.
I was going to suggest the dog tag. That’s what a lot of people suggested when roadID first came out. I sadly do neither. It’s one of those things where you know you should, but…
OhioOhio - interesting! And thanks. I would not have guessed. My friend (lives far away) ran a 20 min 5K when she was in her late 50s. She was once top 5 in her AG in Boston (same AG). She was on the baa leaderboard site with Joan Samuelson! I thought that was the coolest thing ever and to me, that is national class. But hmmm… Maybe I will consider it. But I get all anxious even entering a dinky race here now, so there’s that too… oh, but my friend was a 5+ hour marathoner too when she started in her early 40s. She is awesome.
Today is my “rest day” which meant 7 hours of cleaning and chores. We got our attic done week before last. (It’s a fully floored, roughly 1500 SF with a permanent real staircase type attic, and where we store everything.) Whatever passed for sheet rock and insulation in the 1910s has been falling down spraying toxic mess everywhere since we moved in 14 years ago. We finally had the $$$ and found someone willing to do the work. But now everything is shoved in the center and covered in yuck. Every item needs be looked at, sorted, dusted, and shop vac’d. I spent 2 hours yesterday cleaning out my childhood stuff and 3 hours today starting to clean a portion of the floor and move a few things back. Probably have 50-100 hours left.
It’s a nasty, dirty job, but I’ll be glad when it’s done. My homemade folded sheet/rubberband masks have worked like a champ. And I’ve found a few gems like my HS class ring that I thought was long gone. And even better, the City did not cancel our Make it Shine May. This is the month they will pick up almost anything and waive most restrictions. I thought for sure with the increased daily trash, they would skip this year. Oh, we are getting rid of a lot this time… Yay!!! But that (and regular cleaning and Walmart) will have to be my workout for today…
@milee30 That might work if you are only running near your home. I business travel a lot (or I used to…) and it could be a long time before anyone realized I wasn’t around!
Very true. When I used to travel often for business, I was with a team and sooner or later the team would notice, but that’s different than having family look for you.
That brings back memories… when I was pregnant with my oldest son, I was doing consulting, mostly turnarounds of troubled companies, mostly healthcare related. When I was 6+ months pregnant we were trying to save some awful hospitals in California - not where any of us lived - and I made my horrified (they were all young guys, few women in financial or business consulting then) team promise that if I was unconscious or had any emergency they WOULD NOT take me downstairs to any of the ERs of the hospitals we were working on - they were just such nightmares. Whenever we’d travel I’d research which nearby hospital had decent neonatal facilities and outcomes, print out a map and details and give it to those poor guys. Good times.
When I was pregnant and traveling for work, I still “ran” and did long walks. And carried ID along with that stupid card they made you carry if you are RH negative. But I’m older and grumpier and have people who would come find me now, so go out without ID. Plus, if I decide to get into mischief it might be better to be anonymous. 
Well, it’s good for people to know the options that are out there. No requirements, make your own choices.