Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Hope you find your walking buddy today, Ruth. Love the turtle convention, scottiemom.

Declutter & Sculpt today as we have new furniture arriving soon. Also attacked DDs room, found a ton of money from Christmas presents past, so well worth it. Biked for an hour for some fresh air.

Thanks Falconer for posting. However, I had figured this out. Today's training ride was 60 miles on the Centennial Trail. The most glorious day. It hurts to sit down at the moment, but otherwise just fine. This makes 125 miles of cycling so far over this long weekend. Thinking of doing a short ride plus a hike tomorrow to explore a waterfall a few miles from here. If I jump in, does this count as a "tri"?

No flats. Yay!!!!

It was fun to be out amongst the fellow cyclists training for the Seattle-to-Portland. Most were much faster than I am, but all were impressed that I have done ten out of ten...in a row. (I left out the part about just after finishing active treatment 7 years ago.)

Was sorry to learn that the wonderful microbrewery in Arlington has closed. So I swung into the Junkyard Grill for a burger. Was able to do the 22 miles back to my car afterwards. A girl has to eat.

Speaking of which, dinner is almost ready. I have to eat up some of the strawberries. This is probably the last week for the divine local ones. Plus the last of the asparagus. 

Bring on summer! - Claire 

You would like my favorite Zumba teacher, Varga. She is all shimmy and shake!

Off to POUND. This afternoon we will drag my brother & SIL out to a frontier village, a local tourist spot that you don't go to unless you have little kids or company.

Octo - congrats on retirement - you will love it!

Hope you feel better burner

Velvet - we also took social security early, 1 - hubby figured the break even point to be somewhere in our mid 80's and 2 - you just never know when life may throw you a curve. If you do join a gym, I suggest you get a trainer for the first few weeks - they will help you learn different machines, give you alternate exercises to do, and nothing is more motivating than having to see your trainer at the gym, makes you work out harder and longer. After a few sessions, you can go it alone with the routines they designed for you.

I hadn't been to my gym in months (!), but with my trying to walk outside every day and the bugs are bad, I went the other day and put in a couple of miles walking on the treadmill. No alarms went off when I walked in the door Now it will be easier to go back. Still mostly eating well (though strayed last night with some celebratory margaritas), and getting some movement into my days. Yesterday we spent on the water, clamming and fishing, it was a glorious day.

Hi all. Congrats octo on your retirement. Best move I ever made!

Skies just opened up so either will be pickleball if it stops by 5:30pm or will make it to the gym. We'll see.

Later sculpted friends.

hi all and happy birthday, America. Woke up too late for the town's firecracker 5K so will walk 3.1 miles this morning in solidarity. Another pretty day, going to get hot later - not my favorite thing - so best to get out early.

I am approx seven years from retirement. My inner math nerd figures that's 1,600 days after subtracting legal holidays and paid leave. IDK which sounds shorter: 7 years or 1,600 days. ;-)

Happy 4th everyone! Congrats on retirement Octo - I've got around 10 years yet give or take, depending on how the 401k does, Lord willin' and the creek don't rise. My golden birthday was when I turned 7 years old in august of 1969 - yikes!! Claire - biking has never been a fave of mine so I'm consistently amazed at your passion for the sport. You are quite awesome. Not sure when I last posted but Thursday was body sculpt and treadmill. Friday was lots of housework in the evening as we were busy Saturday with 2 graduation parties and an evening invitation to the neighbor's cookout. She lost her husband in January and has been suffering from serious depression and financial woes, plus she has health problems that keep her from working. That being said I did get in some more housework on Saturday morning before leaving for the first partay. I am also one that hates, hates, hates leaving a messy house to come back to after time away from home. Sunday I slept in then DH and I drove up to our DS and DIL's in Mt Pleasant (about 1.25 hour drive) to help with yard work. They're having a house-warming party on the 22nd and are sprucing up what was a very poorly tended yard when they bought the house late last summer. Sunday and yesterday consisted of lots of digging, raking, limestone hauling, weed-pulling, bush-trimming, power-washing, lawn-waste bag dragging and so on. Lots of bent-at-the-waste finger raking (at least that's what I call it) where we dug up ground-cover and when my back couldn't take that any longer I sat in the dirt like a small child with my legs straight out in a 'V' and kept going. It's amazing how finger-raking brings all those bits of loose root-balls to the surface so you can get them out. We then treated ourselves to showers, a round of golf and dinner out last night. Today would be body sculpt and treadmill if the gym were open but instead it's a rest day after a very physically active weekend. We got home around 1pm and I've been puttering around the house since (It's 3:44pm here in West Michigan). Doing laundry, breaking down a bunch of cardboard boxes for recycling, packed up a bunch of misc stuff to drop at the local charity place tomorrow and more stuff like that. Will run to the grocery store for some good grilling meat and sides for dinner tonight. I am so looking forward to retirement when I can putter to my heart's content and get caught up on so many things around the house.

Enjoy the rest of this great nation's birthday and sleep well my friends.

Pretty picture, Claire!

A quick picture of our Walking Women; lots of ladies had daughters, sisters, friends etc. in town for the holiday (including me, my SIL is sitting next to me holding a flag) walked with us, so we had a big group for our Red, White, and Blue walk!

Sweet - sounds like you're a thorough weeder! I'm with you about just sitting on my butt and getting it done. Ruth - love the RW&B walkers! Claire - that waterfall looks wonderfully refreshing. Two - trimming hedges with power tools is enough of an upper body workout, so I can't imagine what a great workout you got doing it manually.

Exercise yesterday consisted in marching in our community's 4th of July parade. Each neighborhood and a lot of the clubs had a group in the parade, and a lot of local politicians joined in. Of course given that the average age of the marchers was probably north of 70, we ambled more than marched! But it was a lot of fun - people brought their kids and grandkids and dogs to watch, so we got lots of cheers along the way. Cooked out, then capped off the night watching the Capitol Fourth show. It was great this year I thought. We've gone down to the Capitol to see it live a few times before, but it makes for a long day. The older I get, the more I'm inclined to skip going down there and just watch it on TV instead. A/C, bathrooms, and a comfy sofa are hard to beat.

Got my hair done today, and in a fit of frivolity (senility??) I got some green and pink highlights! They're so silly, but I really like them just for fun. One thing about having been bald for a year is that I don't take my hair nearly as seriously as I did before and am much more willing to try something different. No matter what you do, it all grows out sooner or later.

90 minutes push mowing tonight followed by 10 minutes laying in front of a box fan before dinner. Didn't cool me off fast enough so off came the sweaty capris and I ate my grilled burger in my stinky t-shirt then had a glorious cool shower and watched an episode of House of Cards.

Sleep well my sculpted sisters😘

Hit the fitness center this morning for some elliptical and then a dreadmill run.

Gee, I thought I was the only one who thought about colored hair but Ruth and Mary actually DID IT! I wanted to do "Katy Perry Blue" but with work, decided against it. Me and my BC survivor workmate did get a pink extension during October, but that was the extent of my experimenting.

Sweet I laughed about the box fan and eating in your undies. Hey you deserve it after that mowing. I would do the same.

Wednesday was to be my rest day but I did a 20 minute walk. Yesterday it was so hot and humid that I ended up skipping. Even at 7 it was too miserable so I took my shower and got comfy instead.

Exercise today was helping H push-mow the yard. He mows the perimeter around the front & back with the push & finishes the rest with the riding mower. This morning, the rider wouldn't start. We took turns with the push - he would go 2 rounds and I would go 2 rounds. It was 8:30am & 89 degrees! He & I both push-mowed when we first built the house because we couldn't afford a riding lawnmower, but a couple of years later we bought one. We are built on three large lots and 27 years later this was hard work. I had on a long sleeved UPF 50 shirt and it was soaked when we finished.

Got the company out of here at 6 am . 45 minutes of toning & a couple dog walks (I was puppy sitting today).

Poppy, I enjoy mowing the lawn but haven't since surgery etc. seven years ago. We used to have a small house on a large lot. When we moved, we got more house and less lawn so DH and I are both happy. He hates mowing and would just as soon let it revert to prairie but those darn neighbors keep their yards nice, so we do too.

Exercise for the past week was walking Weds, gym Thurs, walking at noon on Friday then out to supper for classic Midwest Friday Fish Fry with the moms and SIL last night. Today is Art Fair on the Square in Madison so lots of walking, and tomorrow taking mom to Drums on Parade. We both love drum & bugle corps. Monday off work but have eye doc appt in the morning then gym in the afternoon.

Membership (free for the summer!) includes three sessions with a personal trainer. Gave him the SUSO exercise guidelines paper (see links below to the papers for trainers and exercisers) and bless his little 20-YO heart, he'd never heard of lymphedema. So thanks to Nats and others, we are continuing to spread the word. One CAN exercise safely after breast cancer treatment!

http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Trainer%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf

http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Handout%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf