My arm is still wasted from last Thursday's pop. I think it is a sprained tendon or ligament. I didn't do it any favors by building some raised planters for my eventual spring garden. It has been super cold for us in Louisiana. I think it got down to 15 night before last. I have been a whole lot colder than that, but the road crews aren't set up for ice down here, not even the little bit we had.
QOTD: Do you garden in the spring? If so, what do you grow?
I have only done one garden in the past, but I plan to grow squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, and maybe some snap beans this year.
LB2
Ouch on the arm, LB!
45+ min of core/ST after work yesterday. I bought a set of Kettle Gryps after seeing them on a Youtube video I was watching about building a home gym. Used them yesterday for the first time and I really like them. They turn dumbbells into kettlebells.
This a.m. it was 5 predawn miles with 4 x 30 sec strides. Today was my last day of prednisone for the bursa. I'm still feeling it a bit, so I think I'm gonna have to get in touch with my ortho and see what the next step is. It doesn't bother me running, but I can tell I'm not going to be able to ride my bike.
QOTD: I don't have room for a garden, so all I plant are 2 cherry tomato plants, and the last 2 years we haven't had enough sun/heat for them to do very well even though I redneck hothouse them and they're on the side of the house that gets all the sun.
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5 mi on a loop I typically do, nothing special.
qotd: No. We buy a few basil plants and keep them for a while until they burn up in the summers here.
tbd.
Good afternoon, trailers. Lazy runner here. Yesterday we got out for a short 2 mile walk. Lots of ice (and salt, which chowder doesn't like, understandably). Today has been zero so far, but I'll head out in an hour or so for 3-4, depending on the conditions. We're supposed to get another couple of inches early tomorrow, which just adds to the issues. Mainly ice.
qotd: Hmm, might be easier to ask what I don't grow. We have vegetables and fruit (hopefully a pomegranate this year) in our driveway (which cannot fit a car, so I built raised beds on the old concrete. I have a 10x20 plot in a community garden in rock creek, growing mostly tomatoes, beets, peppers and raspberries. I also have flowers, plus a shade garden. DH asked for a grape trellis, and we harvested a lot this last year. I'll start seedlings in the basement soon. I need to get a good head start on peppers.
Pretty nice today, upper 20's so packed up the dogs for a lunchtime jog at the lake. Snow covered trails, not very ice, so pretty decent, and easy enough for a slow 3 mile jog. Birdie is loving the trails, and I am pretty comfortable with her now off leash. She is doing great! Still, takes some getting use to having 2 dogs out there again.
QOTD. Well, our gardens are mostly perennials, flowers. We do have a small plot for vegetables. Last year we did a lot of green beans. My wife spaced out the planting so we had them all summer. A few tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and such. Planted a row of asparagus last year but I read that takes a few years to get a crop so we will see how that goes.
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qotd: I used to have a very large garden but work and then I got sick and I quit growing anything. The house we are buying has a raised bed type thing and once I can get the dimensions and prepare the soil i'll have a smallish garden. Cherry tomatoes, peas, lettuce and some spinach, maybe a couple other items depending on space. The house we live at now I have 2 apple trees and since we aren't selling it I'll still have apples. I'd like to grow some melons but have to worry about the dogs running them over.
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Lets see, 4 miles yesterday and today. Was about -10 this morning, but got a couple of degrees above 0 so hit the trails w/ TE. Should have brought snowshoes, snow is 10-12"-ish deep.
qotd: no garden; DW has a small herb "garden" on the north side of the house in the summer, but no veggies.
The other day Tiny Elvis out for the first time in 5 days, just a wee bit excited
2023 goal 2023 miles √
2022 goal- 2022 miles √
2021 goal- 2021 miles √
Are we there, yet?
With more snow due tomorrow, I threw in an interval workout today, 8 x 300m. Total 7.1 miles for the day with warm up and cool down.
QOTD: No garden now, but when I owned a house and had plenty of backyard space, we had a garden with tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, basil, rosemary, green beans, not sure what else. Also had a couple blueberry bushes but was never able to get much of a harvest. We finally discovered that our beagle was eating the berries off the bushes before we could pick them.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.