Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Relay for Life was last night, held at a college field house.  One group sold "lap beads" as a fundraiser and I bought one.  Each time you went around the track and passed their booth, you picked up a white bead and slid it on a string.  Every fifth time you took a purple bead (five laps = 1 mile) and it helped you keep track of your distance.  There were prizes at several times throughout the night, for the most laps walked.

I did 12.5 miles in about 3.5 hours and man are my feet sore this morning, but I was "competing" with a nine-year old girl LOL.  She really wanted to win the prize at 9:30 p.m. and we were neck and neck until she asked me to slow down LMAO!!  (BTW, I did slow down and she bested me by one bead ;-)

The survivors get a purple shirt.  There were kids with cancer, old people with cancer, and a bunch of us in the middle.  This year's purple shirts say,   "I am strength.  I am hope.  I am a survivor."  How can you NOT want to keep going with that on your back!  ♥ 

WTG Annie!  Ruth, my band name would be Black Coffee LOL.

welcome merg!  I did 6 rounds of TC chemo and it won't be fun but you CAN do it.  Good luck Tues!  ((hugs))

My exercise of choice is walking.  I started with a walk to the mailbox and back.  There were days that chemo kicked my butt and I didn't feel like moving and sometimes I didn't, but the ladies here get into your head and whisper to do something, anything, even if it's just for a minute.  We call that "The Voices" and they've encouraged me to exercise nearly every day.  I've gotten stronger over the years and have logged 4,377.5 miles walked since March 2010.

Dulci so proud of you, you are AWESOME!!!!!  Wow Annie congrats on the 5k before the 5k and Badger what a fantastic accomplishment, soak those puppies in Epsom Salts, lol on the 12 year old. (((Merg)))) start slowly even if you can only shuffle to the front door and back come here and post it the truth is writing it down helps you, Do what you can and slowly you build up, most of us didn't start out doing what we do now it evolved over time and I was 58 when I started and the main reason for me was my onc talked to me about the benefits that was almost 6 years ago. Ruth I'm  Polka Dot Raisin Bran

Yesterday did Spin class and about to head out to Body Pump.

Welcome Merg and walking is a good place to start. Terrific progress to a 5k, well done Annie, Badger you are epic  and so nice to slow, I love the shirt too!  Blue protein shake here.

Strange that I have email notifications of postings to my favorite topics.  Never had that happen before.

Hi Merg, talked to you on another thread today, glad to see you here too. I have zero exercise experience prior to 3 weeks ago, when Ruth invited me. Now I go to a gym for very gentle exercise 3 times a week. I find other people help keep me moving. But whatever you can do, because it's all good.

Sweet, how you doing today? Is a mud-flapectomy the same as a dog-earectomy? 

Annie, good for you - I'm going to hang that one on my wall one day. 5 km done by Deb!!!

Badger, too funny about the nine year old asking you to slow down so she could get the prize. Very sweet of you to have done so. I want one of those T-shirts! I really do. I am totally going to have to look for something like that in my neighborhood. 

Apparently my bands name is Blue Jean Pot Roast. I went to M &M's and had a sample, now it's going to be dinner. Ohhhhh it was sooo good.

Hi Ruth, Nihahi and LB. And everyone else I missed. Sorry the old memory isn't the same any more.

Have a great - o for Petes sake, I forgot to report in. Duh.

Walked 2 kms today and in the process managed to spend $700. Sigh. Also got my big garden cleaned out - my DH has this theory that if he fills the garden with leaves to the top of the fence line, it is good for the plants. Maybe it is, but it took me 2 hours to clear and bag all the leaves. Lol

Red - doing great, thanks!  And yes, a mud-flapectomy is AKA a dog-ear-ectomy.  I've also heard it called 'removal of side boobage', I kinda like that one.   I believe what it was called on my paperwork was something like 'excision of axillary mastectomy flap, bilateral'.  I don't wanna mess with the great results I've had so far, so I am absolutely taking doctor's orders for restrictions as an excuse to be lazy, lazy, lazy for a few days!

Hope everyone's having a great Sunday!

Welcome merg! We are glad you are here! It always helps me to log what I do. And any exercise you can do will help you bounce back faster once you are done with treatment. When I was doing chemo, some days I would just put on my tennis shoes, put on a timer, and walk around & around in the house.....but I was moving, so that 'counted' to me!

Black Coffee & Black Salad both sound kind of heavy metal to me!

Blue Potato Chip & Blue Jean Pot Roast......country?

Naked Chocolate.....alternative?

Gray Fried Potatoes.... grunge?

Polka Dot Raisin Bran......a German polka band?

Did 30 minutes of the FIRM's Rock Solid Abs.

Getting ready to join The Gray Chickens (aging lady rockers!).

Indigo Chocolate - just singin' the blues 

11km walk today.....now chilling with the "navy leftover goulash".

My band would be the Green Tums. 

Dulci, thanks for the inspiring post. Lilac, good for you for fundraising. NisaVilla, I am the same way, amazed at people that manage to reply to everyone. Are they taking notes as they read?  I quit trying to mention everyone and just randomly reply to a few folks. Claire, congrats on finding the perfect wardrobe and Ikea success. I had a wardrobe I really loved in my last house, just would not fit in the current place, let it go for cheap on craigslist. I still miss it but try to remind myself of how happy its new owners were to get it. Cheryl, the shoulder is holding steady, still hurts but I'm grudgingly adapting to the limited ROM.

Went to my hooping/juggling meetup at the beach today, so was hooping for a couple hours, a long walk to/from parking, and a walk with the DH tonight. Had a really special encounter at the event. Someone was there for her first time, turned out she was going through a non-BC cancer diagnosis and treatment at almost exactly the same time I was going through mine. We were also close in age and profession. I feel alone in that community sometimes because the majority appear so young and healthy, so it really meant something to meet someone else in similar circumstance.

I'm enjoying the band names - mine would be Blue Grits - I'm thinking that's gotta be some sort of fusion of blues and Southern rock!

Annie - congrats on finishing your 5K training run! You and Dulci will both rock your races!

merg - welcome! As others have said, start slowly and do what you can, even if all you can manage some days is to walk for a few minutes.

Ran my 10K yesterday - beautiful weather. I felt wonderful - it's the first time in a race that the passage of each mile surprised me in a good way, not a bad way! Usually the mile markers seem so far apart to me! Not yesterday. When I passed the marker for the first mile, I couldn't believe that I'd already done a mile. Same with the mile 2 marker. I somehow missed spotting the mile 3 marker, so I couldn't believe when I saw the mile 4 marker - I'd really expected it to say mile 3! It was like that for the rest of the race. My total time wasn't any faster than I've done before, but I felt better and finished stronger than I ever had before. I was a great feeling. Then we went off to the Nats game where I enjoyed a victory beer!

On a more serious note, I had an interesting experience during my race that I think all of you will understand more than most people could. My mom died of b/c in 1980 when she was 58. I was only 24 then, so of course 58 didn't seem that young to me in those days. Yesterday as I was running, for some reason I thought of her, and I started trying to figure out exactly how old she was when she died - years, months and days. Then I started figuring my current age in years, months and days. This was tough to do while running as the brain was a bit oxygen deprived because of the exertion, but it kept my mind busy. The conclusion I came to was shocking. When my mother was the exact age I was yesterday, she had only 14 more days to live. The instant I figured that out, my knees almost buckled mid-stride - the shock was that strong. To think that when we were at the exact same moment in our lives, she was curled in a hospital bed dying of end-stage b/c and I was a b/c survivor in the middle of running a 10K. Intellectually I'd known that 58 was a young age to die. I think for the first time yesterday I understood emotionally, right down to my core, how young she was when she died and how much of life she missed out on. I immediately dedicated the rest of the race to her - maybe that's why it was such a good race for me.

Natsfan.....congrats on the race. What an amazing "journey" that race took you on. I could almost feel my own knees buckle as I read about the "awareness" of your mom. I have NO doubt, she was with you, giving wings to your feet. I'm sure she is still celebrating your victories. 

Have good days ladies...I'll be reporting in later, after my "blue bran buds" digest!

Nats, that was incredible to read. Very powerful. My mom was diagnosed with bc the first time at the same age I was when diagnosed. Not until I had "been there, done that" did I fully understand how lonely she must have been at that time and how unsupportive my dad was. She is Superwoman to me!!! 

Sheesh. I need some happier pants. Right now I'm Black Dill Pickle. I'm going to choose to be a ragtime band. (My dulcimer group played Dill Pickle Rag a few times.)

But.....the reason I'm checking in is to say I DID IT!!!!!!! Today was the first C25K run with no intermittent walking. It is VERY windy so I was fighting the wind and not expecting to finish. But I jogged for 20 minutes straight with no stops. I even thought I could have gone further if I had to! Starting to look forward to the actual run!  

Dulci - great job girl!  Maybe all that wind in your face helped keep you oxygenated without as much effort.....lol!  I'm proud of you!