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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    One more puppy walk before I (hopefully) go.image

  • iwaveatcows
    iwaveatcows Member Posts: 38
    edited October 2019

    absolutely love this pic

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    Iwave, since you like to run; I wish you would come over every day and take the big one for a jog. She is still a puppy and has ENDLESS energy! Loopy

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,651
    edited October 2019

    64 degree drop from yesterday afternoon till this morning - 83 down to 19!! Denver got a few inches of snow - enough to wreck havic driving in some areas this morning...snow stopped by lunch time and roads were fine after work....It was a COLD walk after dinner - bundled up in heavy down coat and boots!!

    Ruth have fun in Santa Fe - look forward to seeing pictures.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    Yesterday I got out of North Dakota right ahead of a winter storm. Then Karen, instead of having a 2 hour layover at your airport, I was there for 6! Two hours because of the weather, and two due to mechanical issues (which necessitated an aborted takeoff). So I was particularly glad to make it to Santa Fe in one piece!

    We spent today in Albuquerque at the International Balloon Festival, which was amazing!

    imageWonderland, me, Natsfan, hbcheryl, patoo, sweetandspecial

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    Night Magic Glowimage

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 1,579
    edited October 2019

    Glad you made it out!

    Yesterday was weights, this morning I've got a 7 mile run. The temps dropped like crazy here in Kansas so I'll be pulling out the cold weather running gear. It's 35 but windy so the wind chill is 29.

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 1,579
    edited October 2019

    And that's it, not taking tamoxifen any more. My heart rate spiked to 172 in the first mile at a slow pace. Screw that.

  • hikinglady
    hikinglady Member Posts: 625
    edited October 2019

    Hiking in Maine atAcadia National Park this week: Beech Mountain loop trail. We are visiting family in New England on a vacation, and the colors in NH and ME have been super beautiful!

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  • ginger48
    ginger48 Member Posts: 1,437
    edited October 2019

    I have been offline since around April. Tried skimming through the posts but there’s way too much to catch up on so I am just jumping back in from here

    I hope the Santa Fe group has a great time. Wish I was there with you!

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,866
    edited October 2019

    Knocked out a half hour of cardio.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    We spent the day at the Pecos National Historical Park. Pecos was home to a powerful ancient civilization of the Pecos Indians. It was both beautiful and haunting to walk where they walked and to explore some of the excavations. There are also the ruins of a Spanish mission to check out, and several of us took a ranger guided tour of the Glorieta Battlefield, where the most western battle of the Civil War was fought.

    imageReady to climb down into a Kivas. The underground chamber where religious ceremonies were held.

    imageBeautiful views from every angle.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    The ruins of an old Spanish mission.

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    On the Glorieta Battlefield.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,651
    edited October 2019

    Ruth - gorgeous photos!

  • Falconer
    Falconer Member Posts: 801
    edited October 2019

    Hi Ginger! Nice to see you.

    Edj sorry that you feel you want to kick the Tam. Would you consider talking to your doctor first?

    So glad to see y’all together in Santa Fe.

    My exercise routine has been sorely lacking since school and soccer season got underway. Nothing g real to report except I went to NYC this weekend and walked a bunch

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    I'm behind on pictures. Yesterday morning was spent in in the old downtown area of Santa Fe. We all shopped and some of us went to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum and the old Cathedral. image

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    We spent Sunday afternoon at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    Four four of us got up early for a sunrise balloon ride. It was spectacular and not at all scary!imageWe are in that blue balloon!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    On on the ground again!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    This afternoon we went to Bandelier National Monument. It has the largest and best known Pueblo Indian cliff dwelling in New Mexico. A beautiful spot for hiking!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

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  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 1,579
    edited October 2019

    Hey Falconer , I'll let my doctor know, sure. But until my heart rate is back to normal on my runs, I'm not about to touch tamoxifen. Saturday it spiked to 176 on what was supposed to be a 7 mile run and ended up being two miles mostly walking, Sunday was even worse at 189. My normal heart rate on my runs is in the mid 150s. Those spikes are dangerously high.

    As I posted elsewhere, three things have changed in my world:

    • Radiation--if this is from radiation damage, well I'm screwed.
    • Prolia--got that shot Sept 13, so it will be another five months before that wears off
    • Tamoxifen--started it Sept 23; heart rate started spiking about 10 days later.


    I've read how long it takes tamoxifen to clear the body (holy cow it hangs on) so if this is from tamoxifen, I should be back to normal in a month (and hopefully trending normal a lot sooner than that).

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,866
    edited October 2019

    Today was a mile round trip walking to a dollar store for batteries.

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 1,579
    edited October 2019

    Yoga today. I'm tired of waiting for the all clear to work out my upper body (left pec and armpit are super painful) so today I said screw it and did yoga anyway.

  • vargadoll
    vargadoll Member Posts: 1,942
    edited October 2019

    Ruth- you girls know how to plan a trip!

    Falconer-school, soccer, band, and track are killing me!! That's just grandkids! I dont know how Moms today don't all!!😁

    Edj3- I hear ya!!! I'm so sorry you are having the issues with your heart rate. I felt like crap for a year after treatment ended. I beat myself up daily because I couldn't do what I was doing before BC. I'm still not and I'm still adjusting. The LE has been my biggest set back and I get so angry at times. Know you are not alone and that we get it!

    The pictures are breath taking! No way I'm trying to remember who posted what!😛

    Lots of power walking and stairs climbed the past few days...here's yesterday image

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,890
    edited October 2019

    We just finished the last day of the trip. We took a very interesting and educational trolley tour this morning. Another gal and I toured an old mission in the afternoon (the church's bell was made in Spain in 1536!), and we went to a Japanese Spa for some pampering this evening. Tomorrow will be a long travel day! Here's a picture from the spa.....ahhhh.....

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  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,866
    edited October 2019

    Fresh off my 30 minute workout!

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 1,579
    edited October 2019

    Still having heart rate issues. I know tamoxifen takes a while to go away and that can't come soon enough for me (assuming that's what's behind this).

  • ginger48
    ginger48 Member Posts: 1,437
    edited October 2019

    It’s a great article, Falconer! I am with you that it’s been hard to fit exercise into the back to school routine. I did well over the summer with biking, swimming and Zumba. I am missing my morning exercise schedule.

    Great pictures from the trip, Ruth.