Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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Ruth, it is so nice to hear you are enjoying the warm weather.
Welcome Monarch and I am so happy to hear you like your rebounder. I used one for years and it was a great workout.
As for me, I am working to heal (hopefully) a torn hamstring. I did it line dancing a few weeks ago and I have been physically down for a bit. After a trip to the sports medicine doctor in a wheelchair I had to hobble around on crutches for a few days until my leg was stable enough to put some weight back on it. I am now painfully working my way through physical therapy in the hopes I can heal this injury without surgery. I am still in a lot of pain so I don't know. I see the doctor again on February 2 to evaluate the leg. The physical therapist said this is a common sports injury in young athletes and they tend to heal really well. I know my body does not heal like it once did, but I am hopeful. I did ride my stationary bike today for 30 minutes so I was really happy about that. Plus I am more steady on me feet. So not back to where I was but it is progress.
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Coffee, my DH pull his hamstring about 2.5 years ago. I remember how much pain he was in. He pulled in running. He finally head but he stopped running not to do further damage.
I ordered KN95 masks, size small on a gamble that they might fit. Nope too small. They are individually wrapped so need to figure out what to do with them. I really like the mast bit they were all out of the regular size. Silly me.
More snow on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Not sure of totals. But Wednesday temps will be 15F. Brrr. It’s was high50s yesterday and similar today. Meeting a girlfriend this morning for teas/coffee and lots of gabbing. I need the social contact.
Mask mandate is ending at the end of the week. Also ending vax requirements for large venues.
Ruth, enjoy you last bit of time in AZ. Safe travels home.
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Woke to 12 degrees today...way to cold for us!
Karen, end of masks at school? Yikes. In Virginia we got a new governor this month who has rolled back the statewide mandates...gratefully our local school system has maintained the rule...but it means more folks are questioning and refusing. I think we will make it through this spring semester with our precautions and then we can re-evaluate for next fall.
Off to do my Sunday/pre-work week chores and will end the day with a candlelight yoga class.
Stay safe everyone, TT
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I bought a treadmill last year because I'm finding it harder to walk on uneven sidewalks. My goal for now is to start slowly, with 20 min 5x/week. Some days I do 30 minutes. Working on it.
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We got lots of snow but luckily much of the blowing and drifting landed on the lawn. DH did the rest with the snowblower.
My neck and back are doing better. We got out for a little snow shoe walk before it started bothering me and then walked on our road (without snow shoes) to complete our exercise. It was cold but we bundled up
The rest of the weekend was mostly filled with report card work. Back to school tomorrow.
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Welcome, PrincessButtercup!
Yikes, coffee, hope PT does the trick for you.
Karen & TT, there have been no mask mandates in schools here this year.....which is one of the reasons that I decided to hang up my post-teaching subbing career for good (me & most of my other retired teacher friends).
Our return trip went off without a hitch & we opened the door of our house at about 11pm last night. Today has been spent getting reorganized and doing errands. Tomorrow it might warm up enough to to freezing rain so I hurried up and got groceries just in case instead of going to an exercise class. Mother Nature must be in a very bad mood this year!!
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TT - at least for my school district no changes in mask policy - they are required. I hope it stays this way for the rest of the school year. Ruth I hear you about saying no more subbing. We are short on all positions. Our central office staff are spending one day/week helping in schools as paras or subs if they have a sub license.
Gorgeous day here today - same on Friday - blue skies and sunny. Funny, I don't remember the weather yesterday!! Enjoyed a nice long walk this afternoon.
I put up a big pot of split pea and barley soup with onions and carrots tonight. Thinking of making a big pot of chicken and barley soup with lots of veggies for dinner on Wednesday. We love soups, especially ones that are thick and can be a meal. Tomorrow we will grill chicken wings since the weather will still be nice. Have to figure out Tuesday dinner.
Hoping for a snow day or at least a late start of Wednesday. The forecast is 3-6" and 15F on Wednesday, but you never know how the storm will play out.
Everyone stay safe and stay warm.
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last day of the month. Exercise achievements
Rowing: 84.2 miles
Walking: 12.3 miles
Biking: 243.8 miles
All above pace for my 2022 goals
I even ran .6 miles!!!!0 -
Great job, NotAsCalm!
I went to Pound this morning, did more errands, and supervised two doggie playdates. It's actually been a mild day. The winds/rain/snow/cold air are supposed to arrive later this evening. Now back to wading through the stacked up mail!
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I was feeling lazy this morning and enjoying snuggling, but I still got up early enough that I COULD have gotten on the treadmill. But I didn't. So I had to tonight. Ran 25 minutes straight -- longest run since I broke my leg the year before Cancer. I do hate the dreadmill, but GBBO helps some. As my runs get longer though, it is going to be tougher!
I grade my runs by how often I bounce off the rails -- only twice this time. Have PT for balance scheduled now for the 11th. Not sure if I posted, the nerve conduction studies just confirmed polyneuropathy consistent with chemo-induced. Trying to keep up hope it gets better.
Tonight is cold, but we have a big warm-up coming for a few days, then maybe a storm. Hope snowstorm and not freezing rain! Over the weekend southern New England stole all our snow!
I have strength at 5:30 am tomorrow, so headed to bed soon. Have a great week everyone!
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60 Monday, low 30s today and teens tomorrow with below zero tomorrow night. Snow stars this afternoon. Hoping for a late start if not a snow day.
Mask mandate expires on Friday. Thankfully school is still requiring them.
Stay warm and stay safe.
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Everything is covered with a sheet of ice & we have a blizzard warning until noon. My morning class was canceled & we'll see about Barre Sculpt at 4:30. I am soon going downstairs to do an indoor walking DVD. Mother Nature seems to be in a particularly bad mood this year!
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LOL, Ruth! That is so cute!
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Lazy day with no exercise yesterday. Most of Monday classes I take were a scheduling conflict with mammo & Breast Surgeon visit. Happy to report that mammo was all clear and now a 5-year survivor. MO appointment is 2/23, and am anticipating going off AIs.
Back to exercise today. Yoga, Barre/Pilates mix, Bodyweight Boot Camp (HIIT) and Zumba Gold to round out this afternoon. Looking forward to putting on my dancing shoes for Zumba Gold!
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My birthday is in a week, but I have a case of the blahs. Something about adding two storage cubes to the 6 that had gone together perfectly. A major exercise in frustration. Hours and hours, and I finally decided that my next stop is the hardware store to glue the plastic connectors on. This should solve the problem.
Oh my. So, no other exercise today other that a lot of stretching and cursing.
Yesterday, I got the office shelves set up, no small feat as they weigh close to 100 lb. It went just fine, though I substituted cut tacks for those miserable screws. Otherwise, I would still be hammering those 49 suckers. I need to investigate my desk and also get help to set up my new dining table. I know that I can't do that one by myself.
Still loving my new place which feels a lot more like a small house than an apartment.
Need to check on dinner as relatively late. Have a report addendum due in 2 days so need to be on my game tomorrow. An exercise in finding a few nuggets amongst data where there is very little news. But think I have found enough
Now to showcase these nuggets so that I am finished.....as well as getting paid. - Claire
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Claire, since BC I don’t get excited about my birthday till the day. Yes, I’m thrilled to be growing older but the year I was Dx I was so looking forward to my birthday and I had chemo 4 days before. So just not wanting to be disappointed. I’m sure by your big day you’ll be celebrating.
16 years ago today I had my first round of biopsies. I knew when I left the answer as when I commented to doctor doing biopsy I didn’t know how I would tell my daughter who just went back to second semester university. The doctor responded you’ll have to tell her. The next day 02/03 I heard those dreaded words. In kind of a funk today.
❄️❄️❄️Snow day today❄️❄️❄️ District called it by 7:30 last night and we were one of the last ones. About 12” by my house. High only going to be 16F and 7 below tonight. DIA is the official weather station and they barely got 3” so that is what is being recorded snow amount.
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Claire, moving (even when you are excited about it) is an unsettling time. Especially when you are trying to get things done & things don't go as planned. Happy Birthday anyway!
Karen, I don't KNOW the exact day of my diagnosis, surgeries etc. I have all my files so could look and find out in less then a minute, but it freaks me out too much and I just can't do it. Strange tricks our minds play.
Since it rained Monday night and then got dangerously cold, our roads and sidewalks are sheets of ice. Nothing is going to melt soon. There is going to be the coldest temperatures here tonight than there has in decades. Minus 30 air temperature & 50 below windchills.....absolutely wretched.
The Wednesday Women walked this morning & I am going to Dance2fit tonight.
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Sweet 16! 02/03/06 I heard those dreaded words and my life changed forever. My DH found BCO soon after and it was my lifeline through chemo and radiation.
Sun zero temperatures this morning but the snow stopped last night.
Working from home today. 4 zoom meetings and in between paperwork and finish reading for my team’s book study.
Stay safe and stay warm. And inside!
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12 degrees on Sunday, 65 today! ...back to mid 20's for lows this weekend...in a normal year I would call this cold and flu season at school -- remember that quaint time...
I've been sticking to my 6 days a week schedule at the gym, gratefully the snow/ice has not closed us down. I don't teach on Friday so today(Thursday) is my "Friday"...off to teach my first class but already ready for the weekend...after the 10 hr day ahead of me now.
Happy Thursday/Friday everyone. TT
Our "big" snow on Sunday...but when you look the other way...you see what it really was:
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TT - Thursday is also my Friday. I work M-Th. I'm covering one school now 3 days and helping with assessments at another school so I'm out of the house all 4 days. It was nice to work at home today though.
It got up to 21 today after minus 11 last night. Tonight minus 6 for low but supposed to get to 40 by mid afternoon. Not sure of the long range forecast.
Going to bundle up to walk with DH - put my snow pants on with heavy parka. I walked at lunch and it was nice but by 4:30 it was getting cold again.
DD#2 called this afternoon and we chatted for over an hour - it was so nice. We usually don't get to talk so long. Lots of topics. She usually calls early Friday morning, which is afternoon for her, but she didn't know if she would have time tomorrow.
Stay warm and stay safe.
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Karen, congratulations on #16. The further out the better!
Weather here is bitterly cold, with roads & sidewalks covered with sheets of ice. But it sounds like it is awful just about everywhere so I guess we are all in the same boat. I went to Pound this morning & Zumba tonight.
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10,000 steps in this morning, bike ride latter, then maybe a swim. It is 80 degrees here in south west florida. Feeling good
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80 degrees, lucky you! The news is on right now & a truck filled with beets tipped over on a road in Minnesota. The beets (which were large) froze to the road like rocks & have caused a number of accidents. Geez, explain to your insurance company that your car was damaged because you ran over a beet!
Shift & Lift this morning, I will probably do an indoor walking DVD this afternoon.
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Beetageddon...sorry, I couldn't help it that is too much! Beets frozen to the roadway up north and frozen iguanas falling out of the tree in Florida. What a crazy mixed up weather world we are in right now!
Today it is 70 in SE Virginia, tomorrow 40.
Had a nice yin yoga class at lunchtime...but it was painful, guess I needed the deep stretching.
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Happy 16 years, Karen! Here’s to many more.
This week Thursday was my Friday as we got an ice storm today which closed schools. I have been incredibly lazy catching up on watching some shows and reading and haven’t gotten many steps in at all. Today is DD #1’s 30th birthday but celebrating will have to wait till tomorrow when the storm passes. We are expecting temps around zero tomorrow night. Brrr. 80’s sound amazing
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Hey, peeps! Welcome to you new folx.
I haven't been on for a month, so I tried to read back and catch up a bit, and Karen, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend and her son, and I am thinking of you on this Saturday morning, and am wondering whether -- in time -- you might find or create a new ritual for your Saturday mornings. May your friends' memory be a blessing.
As for me, well, it's been a busy month! I had gone back to working just before the holidays and then the company was shut down for three weeks due to Covid, and then we went back two weeks into January. Then my kid got Covid while staying with his father. Then in the span of a week, he got a concussion (a bigger kid was grandstanding in basketball practice, didn't look where he was going, and took my son out -- poor kiddo's head hit the floor), my husband went to the ER with his first kidney stone, and I had an anaphylactic reaction (to a paw-paw), and ended up in the ER during a blizzard for that along with acute coronary syndrome. And then I went back to work the next day and found out my temp job was ending but that I could start a new one with a different department in the same room, maybe even at my same desk! I start my new job on Tuesday!
Meanwhile, my Livestrong program ended and I thought I was gonna start using my bike and rowing machine in the attic to do aerobic workouts...but we got a text from a neighbor saying that her son (who used to be very close with my son in spite of being four years older) was not feeling safe in their house and could he please stay with us that night. I said of course and he stayed in a nook we have in the attic that's made up like a guest bedroom. After that first night I sat down with her to see what was up, and found she didn't have any plan at all to get his dad out of the house so that he would be safe there, and he's been staying with us ever since! But because I want him to have his own, private space, I'm avoiding using the attic.
So, I need to figure out how to get my aerobics in. That said, I'm still working out! In addition to the everyday yoga I've been doing (I did all 30 days of YWA's "Move" and decided to keep going and repeat the series), and the twice-weekly Pilates reformer classes, I've signed up for rhythmic gymnastics classes on Wednesday nights. I've had two and I suck, but they are so much fun! I did the first two remotely but I am going to try to go in person on Wednesday night. The first night we practiced with the rope and the ball, and the second we practiced rope and ribbon. My ribbon got all tangled around me, and around my ceiling fan, which is just the impetus I needed to finally get rid of that thing! I haven't asked my back to do anything like this in years, and it's definitely a core strength challenge. But I figured it would be better to start with something low-impact like this before I get all crazy and try dance classes or regular gymnastics again.
Anyway, I am thinking of you all and hope you have safe and positive weekends!
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Oh my Saltmarsh, you really have had quite a month! I hope things are settling down. Thank you for helping out your neighbor's son.
PiYo this morning & busy the whole rest of the day.
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Ginger-happy 30th to DD#1
Saltmarsh- what a scary month. Hope everyone is safe and healthy now.
Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. I like watching the parade of countries. I don’t watch many of the events. My late mother lived the figure skating.
DH started yesterday with a sore throat and then headache and then overall feeling lousy. He's eating in the kitchen, me in dining room, he's in DD#2 room, using the hall bathroom and hanging out in his office/man cave. He will test at home tomorrow. If the antigen is negative, he will get PCR Monday morning. If he tests positive, I'll get PCR Monday morning. So far I'm feeling okay. The place he went this week was to the store on Monday. I was in school building Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was snow day and Thursday I worked from home. How the heck did he get Covid (most likely) and me not (so far) unless I'm asymptomatic. I sure hope our son doesn't get sick.
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Yikes Karen, report back on the Covid situation. So frustrating!
Here's a picture of Bruno & I playing in the backyard with our neighbor & her dog. I also went to yoga.
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It was sunny, calm & a balmy 39 degrees. I went to Pound this morning & hiking through the snow with dogs this afternoon.
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