Mornin' everyone!

Dave, good job on not overdoing that silly "right shoe first" thing yesterday.

Good luck if you race this weekend, Aamos!

Starr, my nifty Garmin tracks my turnover rate/cadence and then puts it in a graph when I upload the workout to my laptop. But I'm also at a point where I can pretty much tell by feel what range I'm in.

Wow - Stumpy and Mike are both attending "Christmas" parties this weekend - weird!

Henrun, when I first read that you were cross training yesterday, I thought you were going to say that you listened to some nice jazz somewhere while doing some heavy lifting with a martini glass...

Mustang Sally, the Tour of Sufferlandria sounds like is is appropriately named. Good luck!

I must admit that I'm happy to be on Medicare where all I had to do (not that it didn't have it's challenges) was to choose my supplemental and drug coverage. Fortunately, I'm healthy enough that I just went with the cheapest I could find.

Up at Jay o'clock this morning and out for 9.5 RW miles. My legs were tired, so there was no pushing the pace this morning. Still it was nice to be out for a good tour of the neighborhood before dawn. By the time the babe and I left for breakfast at our favorite dive, it had started snowing. After that, I had a site walk for our Conservation Commission, and we went to a property (tear-down, rebuild an even bigger house) overlooking the ocean. The view of the ocean in a snow storm is really kind of magical. It is supposed to snow all day, with accumulations of 4-8 inches. So there'll be some shoveling, snowblowing, and snow shoeing or cross-country skiing in my near future.

Have a greta Saturday!

Jay

 

 

Henrun, when I first read that you were cross training yesterday, I thought you were going to say that you listened to some nice jazz somewhere while doing some heavy lifting with a martini glass...

 

 

Jay, that was Wednesday night. We heard some great Traditional jazz and danced a bit. I had a draft of porter, not a martini.

Lots of wet, sticky snow and lots of Boston trainers on the streets. But not wanting to twist an ankle, etc. we've done a lot of walking this morning and will do more this afternoon. Tonight we're heading to a Boston College hockey game (you can't take away the Canadian in me, eh?).

Karin, you're making me miss my Yaktrax, which I don't think I've used in a couple of years (still in the "sports box" in the back of the Outback though). Right now I wish it would either snow in earnest here so I could at least get out on snowshoes or skis, or else melt off the little that's out there so I could run outside! Right now it's not great for doing much of anything outside.

So, based on the above conditions, I did get to the gym once again for some time on the TM and a round on the weight machines. It's still crowded in there -- especially on weekends -- due to the "January effect," but I expect to see a lot of drop-outs by the end of February, if not before...

Jay, I too am of course on Medicare and the thing that bothers me the most about it is the zero pay I often encounter.  if we go back to revising Medicare it ought to be in such a way that the truly poor get a free ride, but those who can easily afford to pay something should do so. It's a disgrace to go to the doctor and have all these tests and then just walk out the door.  The drs. aren't fooling anyone when they do this.

Roch, you posed a question here recently about calcium deposits and some test they wanted to give you.  I suggest you deeply facilitate the conversation with the dr.  "What is this test for?"  "And if you find there are calcium deposits (or whatever), what will you do?"  and "Why this test instead of simply a stress echo?" and so on.  I had the echogram in December and when I went back this month for blood work  the nurse said the dr. wanted me to have an EKG. I asked what for, and she hesitated and then mumbled something about "just to make sure nothing has changed." Oh, bullcrap. It was really, "just because we can bill Medicare for the test."

Aamos, just to be clear, the footstrike does not change to running on the toes. No one can do that. You are moving to a "mid-foot" strike. And you are also correct that podiatrists continue to warn that this change is okay for some, not for others and to be careful making the transition, doing so as slowly as possible. It's also a researched fact, no matter what the barefoot people will try to tell you, that heel strikers and midfoot strikers are about equal in the elite population based on thousands of films of the two.

6 miles easy for the Saint and me at Grapevine.  I leave tomorrow for Atlanta, just one day.  I have it nowhere near as rough as CNY though.  Spareribs

I ran 6 miles today also. I was pleased with my speed progression on it even though that wasn't really the plan, but I was just feeling pretty good out there: 10.15, 9.31, 9.32, 9.02, 9.12, 8.15.    coach D was already back at the car waiting for me when I returned and when i told him my splits, he kept nodding his head in approval. When I told him the last one, he looked at me in disbelief, jaw dropped. lol

Hi, all.

I survived the first stage of the Tour of Sufflerlandria... it's a start.

Tomorrow I have a long hard ride and a swimming lesson, so that should be fun.

Cheers!

Hi, all.

 

I survived the first stage of the Tour of Sufflerlandria... it's a start.

 

Tomorrow I have a long hard ride and a swimming lesson, so that should be fun.

 

Cheers!

Good for you, Sal! What a ride you are in for. Hope the ankle gets stronger and stronger so you don't end up back at square one.

This morning I went out and bought a new pair of swim goggles but now cannot find my spare cap so back to the store tomorrow. I practiced music and got things in order for Sunday worship. It takes me forever to pick out the songs and do the slides.

MrStarr dropped me off at the Y while he did some errands. Why is biking on a stationary bike so much harder than on the road? Does anyone have a bike trainer? I have a feeling I wouldn't use it much but it would be nice to be on my own bike. I listened to a podcast, Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me. There were very few people at the Y tonight.

Tomwhite, have you seen those monster bike with huge tires for riding in the snow? They must weigh a ton, I would tip over for sure on one of those.

My Yak Traxs have not been used at all this year, but if I need to venture out on ice will check out the Spare Spokes or Ice Trackers

Lovely long run for the butterfly lady, with the Easy Pacer, I assume?

have a greta rest of the weekend.

[ETA: I thought I had posted this last night, but when I got up this morning, I discovered that I failed to hit the "post" button. So, here 'tis]

We had our office holiday party last night as well!  We all find it so much more fun and stress free if we do it in January instead of trying to find a date in December that works for everyone.  I highly recommend it!

I didn't brave the snow today.  Instead, I ran 5.5 on my treadmill and then walked to my gym where I spent 1hr 40min on the elliptical.  I'm slowly transitioning to more running and less elliptical, and my foot feels GREAT!

--Robin