Exercise Goals for 2008

Waiting for the coffee to kick in before my Friday long run.
.. some random thoughts....

I'm inspired by fbaezer to tell you a bit about some of the people on the tracks and traces with me.

The first is a walker whom I call Popeye because of the way he swings his arms, not forward and back as most do when they are running or walking but, very vigorously, side to side in front of him.

Think of someone doing a hornpipe dance, but someone very near madness.

And this guy is huge. He's over 6'5" if he's an inch and, perhaps it's an illusion from the arm movement, it looks like he's twice as big from the waist up as he is from the waist down. He has no legs at all it seems. ( Oh, and by the way, one morning he was in front of me and I had to do better than a nine minute mile to catch up and pass him. He's walking, I ha ha ha am running.)




Sozlet has it right because she hasn't been trained out of it.

Going to bore you with some zen here..
..sorry....
but even in the hardest moments...
.going up the hill in the rain..
..that last hundred feet...
...or the first hundred feet..
uh...
..be that easy child...
.the one you were..
..are..
. the skipping one, remember?

Oh, my yes, work
and strain
and push yourself
faster, longer, stronger.
but
in the back
of your brain
way back in there

be easy

be joy

be joy
be joy
be joy.

Joe(going to try to remember that myself this morning.)Nation

That was lovely Joe. I'll try to remember that on the elliptical this evening.

Once again....good resolutions....

Being back on the proper meds should help.

Wish me well, if you please.

I do wish you well, Noddy. You deserve to feel better.

I'm all for feeling better.

Arms are a lil sore, in particular the shoulders. I upped the weights and cut the reps as I'm trying to build up a bit.

Thanks, Mac. I'm starting low and slow.

I'm back to normal hours and jogging at lunch.

Two-Mile Mike and I did, well, two miles at lunch.
He had said he wanted to eat something before he went out.
As we started, I asked him what he ate.
"Three brownies."
Just a slave to nutrition.

Hey Nods, "low and slow" sounds good to me.
Well-wishing.

Thanks, George.

I've declined to the point where I sometimes have to lift my "bad" leg into the drivers seat with both hands. Fortunately the car has automatic transmission and the left leg is the "bad" leg.

The tortoise and the hare.

It worked out for the tortoise.

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My work-out tonight was playing with ALMOST 3 y.o twins and their 5 y.o. sister for 3 hours. We played balloon toss games and sorta-soccer (3 on 1), spin the baby around games, and steady kiddies while they climb down places they really shouldn't games. Fun AND fun. I can feel a lot of muscle groups telling me they got a good work-out tonight.

Did ten and a half or so yesterday with a couple of sidetrips. One, up to the track to check the accuracy of the distance calibration on the Garmin. (It hits the quarter mile and the half mile on the footstep, so that's good.)

The other was not running down the hill to the Boat Basin but staying up in the flower garden park. (It's the one where they finally meet-up in "You've got Mail!") Very nice place to trot along, though it puts you back on West Drive at 79th Street which runs smack into the back of the Museum of Nat. History which you then have to run around to get to Central Park.

29.6 for the week. 386.9 for the year.

Best wishes for Noddy's left leg.!!

Joe(I used to think Brownies were one of the Four Food Groups.)Nation

I've been good on the elliptical. Missed only tow days in the last week. Walked to make up for on day. Yesterday was sucha beautiful day that I added a four mile walk out by the river. My feet were sore but otherwise I felt good.

Good going, Swimpy!

Went running on my own today, it was interesting. Seemed much harder. Running with people a) distracts you, b) kinda propels you along.

I ran two consecutive laps, which I'd wanted to do. It was OK. I think I could've gone longer but I decided to stop after two. (I thought, when I decided to stop, that I was utterly whupped, but I recovered far more quickly than when I really push myself with Trackmom so I think I was a bit wimpy about it.)

Hard part is setting a pace. We go fast on our laps, and I know not to go that fast but slow is boring! I'll get out of that mindset eventually.

My attitude toward weather has changed since I started running regularly. Today's run was in gray, drizzly, cool weather. Perfect.

Got my Obama '08 running hat! (Really a baseball cap, with a velcro closure and space for a ponytail -- saw someone wearing one [baseball hat] while running and thought it was a good idea.)

I did about 6 hours of gardening (yes, really) and am soooooooooore. Good workout all together though.

Hats are always a good thing in summer.

In case you haven't noticed today is the start of Week 25, I hadn't noticed.

Today is the Father's Day Race. It's going to rain on us fathers.


Joe(It will make us go faster, further, farther.)Nation

Happy Father's Day to all our running, walking, swimming fathers here!

~~~

I have my hat on - ready to head out to the beach for a sashay.

5504 Fathers, sons and daughters ran in the 93% humidity.

I missed a personal record AGAIN by eight seconds!

47:28 five miles

Joe(no more water stops.)Nation

Joe--

Compared to some former studly types, you're greased lightning with a chaser of moonshine.

Swimpy--

Variety is good. Sore feet will pass--along with all those burned up fat cells.

Soz--

First running became part of your routine. Now running is building a nest in a neglected corner of your psyche. Good for you.

EhBeth--

Sashay? Your back porch doesn't have a swing--your back porch is set on Perpetually Vibrating.

Week 24

18.5 miles

Scheduled cumulative mileage: 480 miles
Actual cumulative mileage: 500.1 miles

Half-way there

Two-Mile Mike and I did our usual route. I was dragging butt and I don't
know why. Yesterday's run was relatively intense, but only relatively.
I got a good night's sleep and don't feel sick. So I don't know what's
going on here.

Hmm. How hot was it?

Congrats on passing 500 miles! Wow.


I ran yesterday btw, forgot to say so. Newbie brought all three of her kids and they were good for lap 1, starting to act up for lap 2, and devolving into chaos by the end of lap 3. So we stopped there.

Interesting discovery -- gardening soreness is relieved by running, and vice versa. The back of my right thigh was KILLING me after 10 hours of weekend gardening, but it felt fine after I ran a lap. (First 100 yards or so were ouchie, then got better.)

Looks like I'll run solo tomorrow.