I am going to call you Runner! And I agree that slow and steady until you feel comfortable. I like all weights. Free weights, bar, kettles and body weight routines. An artist! Wow could I use your talents here in WY!

Ignore the sneers. Concentrate more on learning what you are doing. If you are concentrating enough you will never even see them. If there is a weight class join it. I learned lots from one. Then I went out on my own. YouTube has lots of great clips with proper form teaching. And remember, women can lift heavy. At 41 you are in the prime of your life. So learn the form and then lift heavy.

Welcome on board!

Shelley

Welcome Runner 5! Hope you find it fun here. Listen to Shelley and Michelle about the weight lifting they are the best!! And you could just laugh at the sneer-faces because you are in on their joke and the joke is on them!

I can't run...crap@y knees, but I walk 6 out of 7 days every week. I get on the recumbent bike almost everyday and try to workout 4-5 times a week. Friday is my rest day. I love Fridays. I'm working on a very stubborn 10 pounds. I'm the oldest in the group. Although, Paula really thinks we're the same age.

Have fun!

Chris

Hi Paula, I'm gonna call you Paula because it seems amusing. Silliness is one of my life's pleasures. Started with Baker too even though I've got 22 years on you (Chris and I are the same age) but Tennant is my favorite and I adore them all except Davison, 'cuz he was the snot in "All Creatures big and small".

Also exceedingly geekish, got hooked on fairy tales as a child, Sci Fi as a teenager, and everything else since. Have a huge action figure and comic book collection. Am a Marvel girl, more than DC. XMen / Hulk / Spiderman introduced me to comic book angst (as opposed to DC's heroic escapades) and as a teenager it was so easy to relate.

Rogue and Storm drink coffee in my dollhouse. Actually, there are several rooms on tables and shelves and thousands of figures, mostly animals, and of those, mostly horses and dinosaurs. Did I mention I like horses? What would Freud say?

When I was a kid I had imaginary horses (Blacky, Speedy & Bronco) who lived in the clouds and would come down when I called them for a ride (pre-Lyft). I galloped around the neighborhood sidewalks, slapping my thigh, and whinnying just like a Monty Python movie (sans coconuts).

My Dad grew up on a farm and grandpa used to let us ride horses when we visited, but he was in Idaho and we were in California, so it didn't happen very often.

Shelley taught me everything I know about dumbbells, and I love them (and my arms love them), but am down to mostly just walking and have to get back on the workout wagon. I learned that one of the easiest ways to learn form was to look it up on YouTube.

• Chris comes up with great challenges and walks and rides a ton.
• Kathy is a huge tennis player.
• Clara has been busy.
• Shelley and Michelle are seriously scary workout experts - they have kettlebells and dumbbells and barbells and guns and guns and racks and dogs.

I told Shelley about the "Zombies Run" app but her phone isn't smart enough. Too bad cuz she's into zombies. Or into offing them. Something like that...

Is there another LOTR challenge going on? We just finished one with Ceratopsy and Mochapygmy. Before that, I was in Ravenclaw (a Kro should be a Raven, don't you think?) but had to drop out of school because of time constraints.

Looking forward to getting to know you.
Welcome.
Paula

I love all my geeky friends!

As far as a new challenge, I just do not like when we are all separated!

Paula my phone still has a tether! It is a land line! Muahaha. And if I had doll houses they would have miniature fish and loads of flowers!

Kathy lifting more is great. Helps the posture. Helps rid one of the extra wave. And so much more.

Shelley

Michelle,

Cera & Mocha said they're looking forward to a break before doing the next challenge - I think they're planning on three in total - one for each movie.

Mocha's going to ask for feedback on this one. I'd like more contact -missed you guys lots. My free people got real quiet when the active ones all joined fellowships. Lots of work (I was the leader, aka servant) which wasn't very rewarding with the lack of interaction.

Because I'm primarily cardio, it didn't feel right to join a team and drag them down by losing strength and flex points each week. It was fun when the Black Riders got to screw with the scores, though. Heeheehee (snicker) ((snort))

:flowerforyou: Paula