2015 Exercise Log/Challenge

[Crankin]

Meh, I am the only one in New England who is not watching the game. I hate football. If DH was not away, we'd be out at a nice restaurant, that would be dead tonight! Even my son, who is the least football type person around, is going to a party with his wife. I am quite sure, I am going to end up being one of those stereotypical New England ladies who hangs out at the natural foods store in west Concord, reading a book, if DH dies before me! Seriously, I sometimes worry about finding someone who would be as active as I am, at an advanced age... I'm not obsessed with this, but when I look around, I don't feel positive. Yes, I see a lot of older guys in my bike group, but, despite their riding, they don't look particularly fit!
Relax on your day off, Catrin. I am not going to worry if I don't get up for 5:30 AM...

[Crankin]

I went to a later class, which was more weights and core, but had quite a good warm up. I also warmed up and stretched at home for 7 minutes and then for another 15 minutes at the gym, on the treadmill. Thought about going for a little hike on my local trail when I got home, but the sunny, 40 degrees turned into cloudy and very windy while I was at the gym, and it feels freezing out.
Going to meet Hirakukibou for coffee in a bit. We haven't met up in months.

[Catrin]

I hope you enjoyed your coffee with Hirakukibou!

I was good today, I DID got to the gym but limited myself to cardio as I had planned. In order to keep me from turning it into a competition with myself and over-doing things, I won't spend more than 15 minutes on any machine. After my usual stretching and mobility work I did about 40 minutes between the ArcTrainer, Precor AMT, rower and treadmill hill workout (fast walk at a lower incline, I can't run). Tomorrow night is my usual KB training session. 2.5 weeks before our competition!

[Crankin]

I do hill walking intervals on the treadmill, also. I really can't run, either, even though I want to.
Went to spin this morning, even though it's a rest day, usually. I didn't get up early yesterday, so it made it easier to get up today! The class was OK, I just look at the instructor in amazement when she is pedaling with a super high cadence (at least 110+) and telling us to increase the resistance. I just can't believe her resistnce is up that high... but, at least there's one other person in the morning who comes in bike clothes . The rest are tri-athletes, or just the same people who do boot camp on the other days. I do notice a lot about group behavior, patterns with these classes. The group of tri people tend to follow some of the instructors like groupies and tend to take tons of classes, do training at several different gyms. They usually are runners first, some swimmers first, but never cyclists. They are definitely faster riders than me (they once asked me to come on a ride and when she told me the average, I laughed and declined), but seem to think the cycling I do is "amazing." Not really. Some of them remind me of the people in the Athleta catalog!

[Helene2013]

Wow! You gals are way more into training then me, at least lately. hihi

I've just started back last Saturday (got the ok to start slowly after the baker's cyst rupture). So I only did an hour of bike/treadmill on Saturday, muscle strengthening on Sunday and my bike trainer again yesterday. I won't be training 6 days a week like last winter/spring as it was to get ready for a 135km bike ride last June. I have a goal of 110km for this June but my "condition" is better and knowing what to expect, we'll work out differently. So 3 training per week on a planned program and the other nights or weekends I am free to do what I want as far as gym is concerned.

I'm not allowed to run (probably never) for now but I will be able to do hill on treadmill. Better than nothing. For now, treadmill is only 15 minutes, on flat, walking. It will increase in intensity but now for now. I follow my PT/Kine advice as I don't want to go back to square 1. Nah.

[Catrin]

Helene, it sounds like you are on the right track - yayyyyy! It is about doing what our bodies are ready for, it sounds like you've some good advice.

Last night I hit my usual KB training group. He kicked our butts with a non-competition based conditioning workout that featured KB deadlifts/swings/snatch/pushups/rows. A 25 minute long competition Long Cycle would have been easier, but it was a great workout. He is pulling us back a bit so we don't over-do things before our competition in 2 weeks.

[Crankin]

You must be getting excited, Catrin.
So, I went to an AMC bike committee meeting last night and then stayed up way too late reading. No way I am getting to step class, which starts in 45 minutes. There is also a local bike ride this morning, and one of my older guy riding friends was encouraging me to come (he does a lot of volunteer work for both clubs), but I just cannot ride when it's 19 out now, and the ride starts in an hour. I think I am going to go do a hike, maybe just in my neighborhood, because I will get in a steep climb that gets the HR up. I feel disconnected from the outdoors, I've been at the gym so much. Think I will give myself a bit of a spa day today, go get a cheap manicure after the hike, to force myself to do all of the paperwork I have!!!