Good morning!

I ran 3 miles yesterday. Right at the time I was leaving to meet a friend after work to run, the rain came pouring down, the winds got crazy, so we opted for her work's gym to run the TM's. that's why I only got in 3 miles. that was enough. I can't even fathom how I have done 15-20 miles on a TM before. And then right when I was done on the TM and went out to my car, there was no rain, peeks of blue sky. 

Will head out for a run later this afternoon after work. Probably going to leave about 3 pm. Hopefully the weather will be in my favor so I can get in a longer run outside.

Thanks, Holly.  That's so strange about the unexplained weight loss for your husband, but I guess it's good!  As long as he feels ok! 

My weekend running might be limited.  We have our church women's retreat and the trails are....trails...at the state park and I am unfamiliar with them.  I'll need to be out early with my headlamp, so it might be laps around the parking lot or something.  We do have a hike and another woman and I are leading a "run"/hike beginners' class.

Went over to the path for 10K, so the Strava 10K is done for February.  I felt pretty sluggish.

How-Do, Folks

4 predawn miles, which started in barely a drizzle, but got worse as the run went along.  That's fine.  I just can't start a predawn run in a downpour.

The Hub is slowly losing his mind, he's so bored.  Me, I would gladly stay home for a few days . . . weeks . . . if I could.  I'd find lots to fill my time.  We most definitely are not programmed the same.

Okay - a ton to do and not enough time in which to do it.

Happy Friday ~~

Last day before travel day!!

Holly - nice pool workout

Twocat - I am actually not worried just trying to be somewhat cautious. I would have felt terrible going to the gala last night if I woke up sick this morning and dh wouldn't be happy if 3 days after the gala I became really sick on vacation. Just felt like a prudent decision and honestly I didn't mind the extra rest last night.

KSA - good job getting your Feb 10k done. It was so dark and cold last weekend when I was on retreat I just couldn't bring myself out for a solo run.

Tramps hope your knee stops being cranky

Leslile - I would love a few days with nothing to do but I don't see that happening for a very long time except for vacation time

Steve - hope you have your sneakers back

Sometimes on the rare occasion we have a slow day at work I feel a little bad sitting around considering what we get paid esp if it's a holiday at time and a half, but then I think about all those crazy days where we don't even get a lunch break, don't get to the bathroom or we are saving Moms and babies who are trying to go to the other side but we don't let them and I realize those slow days are a gift!!

2 hours on the Peloton doing a variety of classes followed by some stretching and a bunch of strength classes. Figure tomorrow will be hard to get much in with traveling and leaving our house at 3:45am so I did extra today!!

Oh and I saw Norm on a ride - hi Norm!!

Hi Masters.

Thanks for the start, Holly, and good work in the pool and back home. I had to look up "Bulgarian split squats." Maybe I'll give them a try.

We're going out to dinner with some neighbors tonight. Last night, we got a call from a nephew who is looking for a new home in NH or Maine. He has some places to look a this weekend, so wanted to know if he can stay with us tonight and tomorrow night. He's coming up from NY, and we think we'll be back from dinner before he arrives. But we'll leave a back door unlocked just in case he arrives first. We have an almost all-day town meeting tomorrow, but he'll be out looking at houses, so we'll meet up again in the late afternoon, and will learn about what he saw over dinner. This sure changed our weekend plans, but it'll be great to see the nephew again, so it's all good.

I had a fairly-aggressive (for me) workout on the roads yesterday, and I didn't want to repeat that today. So I stayed in this morning for 95 minutes of core and knee exercises, weights, and some foam rolling and stretching. After a shower and breakfast, I walked into town for a meeting, and then back home for 5.5 miles. I got back here to A) find the geothermal repair guy here early (when does that ever happen??), and B) just in time to jump onto a Zoom meeting. So, it has been a bit of a busy day. I sure am looking forward to dinner with the neighbors tonight - and to seeing the nephew.

Have a greta Friday.

Jay

I took a break when my daughter was born and didn't go back until she was 6 and my son was 4.  There were not good childcare options and the job market was very soft (real estate crash of 1985-89 or so), especially in Dallas where we lived.  I had another year off for a job search after the company I worked for at the time was sold- 2005 - and then we moved to TN in 2006 for my next job.  I was off August 2011 (layoff) until November 2011, but was so stressed about finding a job....   Now I've been off almost 2 1/2 years and it's wonderful.

Holly, I was so happy to see you did that 1,000 yards in the pool!   That's great!    And I was glad to read that you have delusions that I'm very fit, too.   

I did a strength workout this morning and then a 1,300 yard pool workout. I'd made plans to meet an old friend for breakfast at 8:00 and had just enough time to get up and feed the dogs, take care of the cats, grab my bags, get out the door, get the workouts in, shower and shave, and meet him at our favorite local diner.   One of the dogs decided he didn't really want to come back inside, when I wanted to leave for the day, so I had to entice him back into the house before I could leave.

My strength workout was chest presses on a machine, overhead presses on a machine, hip adduction and hip abduction on machines, and internal and external shoulder rotations on a cable apparatus.   I almost skipped the hip exercises because I strained that right hamstring yesterday during my afternoon walk, and I feared that strength training muscles in that area would be risking injury;  I started very slowly and cautiously and was able to do both exercises without bothering the hammy.   When I got into the office this morning, after breakfast, I called the chiropractor and scheduled an appointment for Monday morning.  It was just one of those things that felt like a misalignment caused the injury.

My swim workout was broken up a little from what I usually do for a warmup, main set, and cool down.   I did some 25-yard sprints into the pre-set reps after the warmup but before the main set.  The main set was a single 400-yard freestyle aiming for 6:00 even.   I got as close as you can get - a 5:59.  After the main set I did a cool down of 2 x 100 yard freestyle at an easy pace.  Now the interesting thing is that the 400 free was at an average pace of 1:30, and the cool down 100's were both in 1:26.   I rested for 34 seconds after the first 1:26.  When I did the 400, I did the first 100 in 1:25, the second one in 1:30, and then the next 200 yards in 3:04.   I'm of the belief that the cool down should have been slower, but darned if I can learn how to do that.