What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Tapering is underway. Just an easy 60 minute trail run today, about 5 hilly miles. Left hip felt fine.
Now I'm tracking my friend and training partner as she races Ironman Maryland today, her first full distance IM.
Following the live feed is both exciting as well as making me a bit nervous.5 -
Rowed 7,621m in bow of the double: We did a small repeat loop upstream so that the lone single out with us wasn't too far out on his own, especially since the wind direction was causing some chop and low rollers. Everyone else was in a quad, and they were waaaay ahead of us and the single.
Later, got a few thousand extra recreational steps in wandering around local food truck (etc.) festival in a little town North of here. Also got in some delicious chickpea curry (with seasoned rice, carrot salad, raita) and a frozen vanilla coconut milk bar with coconut-oil based chocolate chunks and sunflower seeds. Yum!
Perfect weather, sunny, 70s F.5 -
After 10 hours in the car and a huge pizza for dinner, I decided to try and get a workout in at the hotel gym before bed.
- 1km on the treadmill at 7.6kph
- 10 min rowing
Probably didn't have enough time to digest, but it was already 22.45PM so not much choice. I also struggled with the machines: the rowing machine was a concept 2 but the damper seemed broken, and the treadmill had so many bells and whistles but I only managed to turn it on and off and change the speed.5 -
Walking the dog (10 min), walking in the park (25 min), swimming at the local swimmin' hole (50 min).2
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No specific exercise, but I pulled carpet, padding, base boards, tack strips to prep a bedroom for new flooring. After all that, I installed the vapor barrier and did half the laminate flooring. I will finish the laminate tomorrow, re-install the base boards and then put the furniture back in the room.
A busy weekend for me...4 -
Splitting and stacking firewood
Weeding the garden4 -
A nice brisk walk from the house to the lake and back…4 -
Taking full advantage of the hotel gym (before traveling to the next cabin), I got up early this morning to do some strength training before breakfast.
I was taken aback a little by how crowded it was, 4 other people already working out. Instant reminder of why I have a home gym 😛
Despite feeling very self conscious, I did:
4 sets of barbell bench press
3 sets of leg press (fun! it's the one piece of equipment I actually miss at home, haven't used one in 13 years)
3 sets of lat pull-downs
3 sets of dumbbell rows
2 sets of weighted hyperextensions
I might have overdone it a little, trying to compensate for not having done strength training since September 10th, I will definitely be very sore!4 -
Taking full advantage of the hotel gym (before traveling to the next cabin), I got up early this morning to do some strength training before breakfast.
I was taken aback a little by how crowded it was, 4 other people already working out. Instant reminder of why I have a home gym 😛
Despite feeling very self conscious, I did:
4 sets of barbell bench press
3 sets of leg press (fun! it's the one piece of equipment I actually miss at home, haven't used one in 13 years)
3 sets of lat pull-downs
3 sets of dumbbell rows
2 sets of weighted hyperextensions
I might have overdone it a little, trying to compensate for not having done strength training since September 10th, I will definitely be very sore!
Been to the coast twice in the last few months and both times I used the hotel gym it was all to myself. Ha ha. I guess Friday and Saturday nights not typical for folks to be working out when they’re supposed to be vacationing and doing the usual eating and drinking…. Probably pandemic 😷 has a little something to do with it.. I have a home gym and was a bit apprehensive so it was fun..4 -
Taking full advantage of the hotel gym (before traveling to the next cabin), I got up early this morning to do some strength training before breakfast.
I was taken aback a little by how crowded it was, 4 other people already working out. Instant reminder of why I have a home gym 😛
Despite feeling very self conscious, I did:
4 sets of barbell bench press
3 sets of leg press (fun! it's the one piece of equipment I actually miss at home, haven't used one in 13 years)
3 sets of lat pull-downs
3 sets of dumbbell rows
2 sets of weighted hyperextensions
I might have overdone it a little, trying to compensate for not having done strength training since September 10th, I will definitely be very sore!
Been to the coast twice in the last few months and both times I used the hotel gym it was all to myself. Ha ha. I guess Friday and Saturday nights not typical for folks to be working out when they’re supposed to be vacationing and doing the usual eating and drinking…. Probably pandemic 😷 has a little something to do with it.. I have a home gym and was a bit apprehensive so it was fun..
Well, this was the fourth hotel gym workout of this trip and only the first where I didn't have the gym to myself, I guess I can't complain 😁3 -
Easy Sunday over and done with… am hopeful I can at least get 1 mile under 9 mins in the next few months…. Homemade Americano ☕️ coming up.. you all have a good rest of your weekend.4 -
Did an easier bike ride this morning. Tapering plan called for 2:20:00 at a steady aerobic pace.
Five of us rode a scenic, shorter and flatter route, covering 41miles. With only 1660ft of climbing, the 16mph pace turned it into a fun social ride.
Will get in an open water swim tomorrow morning before work.
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106 minutes of full count basketball🏀 im beat🥱4
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I am at my parents' house for a bit. They are vulnerable, so I am isolating and my workout options are more limited than normal.
Today, I did a 12 mile walk and had a go on a portable hangboard.6 -
30 minutes on rower, then 25 on the Assault Bike. Might finally have the new Tickr Fit (HRM) set up correctly. Not as accurate as a chest strap, which I expected, but this AM's row was utterly useless. Didn't pick up the entire row.4
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Today was a 5.14 mile hike in the Colorado foothills at about 7,400ft. The elevation gain was around 820ft. Half of the hike is on a service road and the other half on rocky trails. It's beautiful and was a fabulous day to hike. I need to stop less than in the past, other than for bikers and trail runners, and my average pace is coming down. Today was a 32.06 minute mile average.5
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Today I picked a random calorie burn goal. 1000 is a nice round number. I picked one workout for each muscle group and grabbed my spin bike. 10 minute spin, 10 reps for each workout with no rest and repeat until you burn 1000 calories.2
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yesterday: treadmill twice (21 min walk & 14 min walk)
today: treadmill (35 min walk)
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I was on a paddleboard all day today.
The company was GREAT9 -
Sunday's usually rest day, but the club had a Moonlight Row party. We took out the barge, which is a sweep rowing (one oar per person) craft that's basically like rowing your living room: A big rectangle, with rowers on each side, as stable as your living room, and about as high performance. We put a bunch of battery lights and glow sticks on it, and about a dozen of us headed out after dark, with the almost-full moon, on a beautiful clear night.
This is what it looked like sitting at the dock in daylight, with the oars pulled in rather than fully extended ready to row.
I haven't swept in an age, but ended up sitting starboard stroke, with a recent-grad collegiate coxswain/rower sitting port stroke next to me, because we're a sculling club and almost no one else much knows how to sweep. 😆
We only rowed around 5500m, but went at it with some gusto (barge still performs like your living room . . . .). I did a decent job blistering up my right hand (outside hand) on the end of the club's beat-up wooden-handle sweep oar (I got an old spoon/macon rather than a hatchet even - prehistoric, practically - and it looked like someone had gnawed pieces out of the handle-end). Had a fine time.
Potluck snacks after.8 -
Chest and tricep workout followed by a 30 mins walk with the dogs4
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@wunderkindking - Cool picture. That SUP was at capacity!
@AnnPT77 - I'll bet moving the barge was a lot of work, and I'm guessing the lighting might not have met Coast Guard regulations. Looks like fun though!2 -
Last swim before leaving for Chattanooga on Wednesday. Swim was a race simulation practice. 10 minute easy
swim to warm up, then a pre-main set:
30 strokes smooth/30 strong, then 30/25, 30/20; 30/15; 30/10; 30/5;
Main set was 3 x 8 minute rounds with 2 minute recovery:
100 strokes strong, 25 smooth; repeat sequence for 8 minutes
Finished with 2200 yds total. Felt fairly comfortable.3 -
@wunderkindking - Cool picture. That SUP was at capacity!
@AnnPT77 - I'll bet moving the barge was a lot of work, and I'm guessing the lighting might not have met Coast Guard regulations. Looks like fun though!
In absolute fairness, it's a BIG SUP, and the dogs are little.
Super good time, though.6 -
Weekend workout was to pull the carpet and put laminate flooring down in the last room in the house. I can finally mark that project as complete - across the summer, I replaced all the flooring in the house that was not tile approximately 1300 square ft of flooring replaced in total.
Morning ride today was 18.21 miles @ 13.3 mph avg (82 minutes total ride).3 -
Around 7k rowing bow in the quad this morning, then a very slow (3.0mph moving average!) 5.3 mile walk.
Between last night's hearty sweep rowing stressing some lesser-used muscles around my hips (because of the twisting load), and the cumulative effect of rowing hard last night and moderately hard this morning, my knees specifically and legs generally were giving me a little back-chat on the walk. Honestly, I probably would've bailed at the halfway point, but I was (of course) around 2.5 miles from my car, since the walk is an out-and-back.
I'm supposed to supervise open rowing tonight, which will take me probably a few more thousand steps above my current 15k+ step count for the day, but not involve any actual workouts, beyond carrying light boats anyway. Weather forecast's still borderline, we'll see whether conditions allow rowing tonight, or not.
I forgot and left my chest belt on for the walk today. For some reason, it's been registering high heart rate near the end of walks (which is way out of whack with RPE or any other subjective feelz, and what pulse I can manually detect). (Yes, I replaced the battery.) Doesn't seem to happen if just the wrist monitor. Oddly, the rowing numbers usually look sensible with the chest belt, stupid without it. Go figure.3 -
Did a 30 minute row, then 25 on the LateralX. Might have finally figured out what's going on with the Tickr Fit. It doesn't work if you connect it to the Bluetooth on the rower for some reason, though it's BT and ANT+ both. My old one had no issues. This one does. As soon as I disconnect from the rower, it picks up fine.3
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@wunderkindking - Cool picture. That SUP was at capacity!
@AnnPT77 - I'll bet moving the barge was a lot of work, and I'm guessing the lighting might not have met Coast Guard regulations. Looks like fun though!
In this particular case, I think we were pretty visible, with several people wearing fake eyeglasses made out of glowsticks, glowsticks on oar handles, some lighted necklaces, party lights on the gunwales, a good number of the rowers wearing campout-type headlamps, etc.
I suspect any powerboater who was out would've been more likely to mistake us for an alien spacecraft (or multi-legged space creature), than recognize us as a rowing craft, though, especially given that this particular craft is - as you could see - pretty odd looking even without party decor. We only saw a couple of other boats, and that closer to dusk rather than full dark.
Here's a photo, with everyone else's faces anonymized since I didn't ask their permission to post, me in front (which is stern) at right.
That said, we did have red and green side lights on the proper sides of the barge, which is close to the legit requirement for a boat of the barge's length, plus flashlights on board that could be used in the way indicated for shorter sail/row/paddle craft. (The photo above doesn't include the red/green lights, which are blocked from view.)
In practice, we generally follow the night-lighting rules that apply to non-power craft of shorter length, and hope for the best if we meet an enforcement officer. There exist special lights for use on regular rowing shells that are red on one side, green on the other, technically meet the regs (or at least come close) but are workable on a narrow boat (even the 8s are only about 18"-ish wide, and a mere few inches wide within a few feet of bow and stern where lights need to be placed).
Honestly, the Coast Guard and state regs are a little weird in general, when it comes to rowing craft: The regs don't seem to have contemplated our existence. We're human powered of course, and there are some exceptions for non-powered boats at shorter lengths, but even the ways regs apply for some longer canoes and kayaks are a little odd.
When it comes to rowing craft, some of the regs for all craft over X length make zero sense. (For example, according to what I was told in my boating safety classes, craft over 26 feet (I think it was) require a big ol' sign someplace warning about rules for oil and waste discharge. A rowing 8, with 8 rowers and a coxswain, is 60 feet long. A quad or four is around 40 feet long, a double around 30 feet, even a racing single will be around that 26 foot length +/-. None of us discharge much oil, and only discharge waste if someone throws a kleenex overboard (which we don't, at least not intentionally). We don't have that required sign, ever. 🤷♀️)
The barge is slow, but maybe faster than one would think. Even with only around 12 rowers (it seats 16), we were getting 500m splits in the 4-5 minutes range; 2 minutes would be regionally competitive for regular shells among age-group rowers of most of our age. That's not bad, for rowing a living room, if you ask me. I think only one person in the boat was under 30, at least half of us over 60 (one in his 80s, the guy one seat behind me and across the aisle).6 -
@AnnPT77 - "My tongue in cheek" comment should have been noted with a
That said, it looks very cool with the glowsticks, etc. As a recovering waterfowl hunter, I've done my share of predawn and post sunset boating. Around here (northeast US) I think the rules apply to power boats only, but I've not checked for larger unpowered craft such as your barge.
With that said, your photo demonstrates a key trait among the chronically fit. That is you make the activities fun, and find friends to do them with you! Thanks for sharing.3 -
@AnnPT77 - "My tongue in cheek" comment should have been noted with a That said, it looks very cool with the glowsticks, etc. As a recovering waterfowl hunter, I've done my share of predawn and post sunset boating. Around here (northeast US) I think the rules apply to power boats only, but I've not checked for larger unpowered craft such as your barge.
With that said, your photo demonstrates a key trait among the chronically fit. That is you make the activities fun, and find friends to do them with you! Thanks for sharing.
I took your comment as tongue in cheek, actually. I'm just being kind of a girl scout (or jerk 😉) about boat lighting - I think it's actually kind of important to do the right things (or as close as practical) for safety reasons. It gives me the heebie jeebies to see what some people do on the water, night or day. I'm constantly nagging our newer rowers about wearing bright colors in daytime, which has nothing to do with regs, but a lot to do with practical safety. Seeing ski boats out without a spotter (speaking of not following regs) and things like that, I think a human-powered small boat needs to stay as aggressively visible as possible.
If your hunting is from something like a canoe or fixed seat rowable/poleable boat, not motorized, I think it's probable that you're OK if you have a flashlight or lantern to show when other boats approach. If the boat's over 23 feet, it gets a little weird technically, maybe, but most canoes or fixed-seat rowboats are pretty small. (Rules can vary by state; that would be USCG rules as I understand them.)
And yeah, I'm kind of ranting about how dumb some of the regs are, if taken literally, for human powered craft. 🙄2
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