What Was Your Work Out Today?
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A very low intensity 7k in bow of the double, on a lovely morning. My main/favored double partner has been out of commission with a ribcage problem for a couple of weeks or so, and today was her first day back, easing back into it. The group didn't let her carry boats, then we kept it steady and easy on the water, just enjoying the river.
For reasons I don't understand, the quad that was out with us didn't catch up, even though they were doing race starts and power pieces. I have no idea why, because we weren't fast (per Garmin) and they should've been reasonably fast (good lineup) - long breaks, maybe? 😆1 -
Spending a long weekend in St Lawrence County, NY, with my son, who is a waterfowl hunting guide. He drove east from Nebraska to help a friend during the September goose hunting season, so I drove up to spend time with him. In addition to guiding hunting clients, I managed to get out for a leisurely 40ish mile bike ride from Potsdam to Waddington and return. Waddington NY is on the St Lawrence River and this is dairy farm country. Roads were great, but with horse and buggy traffic, I had to watch out for droppings!😆 I had hoped to cycle one loop of the Lake Placid IM course on my way home tomorrow, but the forecast isn’t great.3
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190 minutes elliptical for 11.19 miles today. Still haven't got a new elliptical yet. Screeched most of the time today. I think it is the braking system hence the lower mileage than my usual. Found a place about 30-40 minutes away from me that buys & re-furbishes gym quality equipment. Open M-Sat so hoping to get there Fri or Sat this week to see what they have available.3
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Just an easy hour today of cardio -- 30 on the treadmill (walking @ 15 percent incline) and then LateralX.1
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Paddling two days. Yeah. I know. Pretty boring. I enjoyed myself anyway.2
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Paddling two days. Yeah. I know. Pretty boring. I enjoyed myself anyway.
Too tired to write any details yesterday. This was the last multi-day event sponsored by a non-profit organization I support as a volunteer and donor. It was a relatively short paddle - about 28 miles in two days. Catered meals and a gear shuttle, so very nice.
I got to paddle in the back of about 70 people to make sure nobody got left behind and as a safety "backstop" sweep boater.
Several of us stayed up and laughed through the evening. We went to bed when the rain started. It had been quite a while since I heard rain on the top of a tent. It was lovely!
Other than a little rain, the weather was great. The people were too!3 -
Lifted this AM, then planned a 4 X 2K rowing interval set with 2 minutes recovery. Got through two of them (2:06 pace, then 2:10 pace) and just didn't have anything left. Finished up with a 500m row and then a 10 minute C/D on the LateralX inside.
It wasn't that hot for Tucson (around 91 today at lunch) and I had the cooler on me. More than likely just too aggressive on the recovery -- should have done 3 minute recoveries, not 2 -- and the fact I haven't been rowing as much with the trigger finger.
This is the hardest interval set I do and to attempt it after a hard lift is a lot. It feels a lot easier when the weather cools down and I'm rowing more consistently. IDK, if I can't get through a really hard interval set, I don't beat myself up too much anymore. I used to but why? I'm planning workouts that most at my age would never attempt, so if I just get through them, it's a nice bonus.1 -
Actually had a little better sleep than usual last night (only 2 wakeups in my roughly 6 hours!), so volunteered to row bow in the quad this morning. Since I seem to have less gephyrophobia (😉) than our other frequent bow rowers, we got pretty close to 7k, rather than a couple of hundred or so under as when they bow. (I run us closer to the bridges before skidding the boat into the turn, plus make more squared-off crossings at the turnaround points = extra meters.)
We're still taking it a bit carefully with our returned-to-rowing buddy who's getting over the rib issue, but we got reasonable speed with her in stroke seat, and did a couple of power 10s to see how they'd go. (They went OK from an injury-recovery perspective. The first one was a little technically . . . untidy? 😆)
My recent times in the engine room (seats 2/3) have I think gotten some better power practices in my muscle memory, especially wrt suspension, so I think I'm contributing a bit better to boat speed even in bow, as a consequence. I hope, anyway.3 -
I went to a stag do this weekend. I was scared it would be very sedentary. Fortunately, there was dancing at pub and then club. I am rubbish at dancing, so I energetically jumped up and down for around 5 hours.
Today, I took advantage of the unexpected Bank Holiday in the UK to go caving. It was a very nice trip to Little Neath River cave. It's the first cave I've done where I needed a wetsuit. Good fun, a 4 hour trip.5 -
Walked 4 miles in under 60 mins. Nice way to kick off the week.. enjoyed the whole thing pretty much to myself. I saw maybe 2 people todays outing.4
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Look up Joe wicks on you tube HIIT cardio it's great0
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I did an hour on the elliptical yesterday. I was very tired, but pushed on and ended up going a little faster than my normal pace. I followed this with some full body super sets. Other than not enough sleep, I feel pretty good this morning.
The smoke is gone for now (yay!). In the meantime, I've bought a hepa filter air purifier for the next fire. Hopefully that will help keep me moving during fire season.1 -
I had a fun weekend trip to upstate NY to visit my son and friends who worked for an outfitter guiding clients on Canada goose hunts. The 3:30am wake up calls and the work of unloading and setting out a trailer full of 200 decoys, then picking them up again when completed reminded me that this is a young person's game.
I did manage to get in a nice afternoon ride on Saturday, but Sunday's weather was lousy, so I skipped my plan to ride the Lake Placid bike course before returning home.
After a recovery day yesterday, I returned to the gym this morning. My goal is to establish a consistent stretching and mobility routine as I begin a return to running. This morning's short treadmill intervals of 1 min on/1 min off were very encouraging, since I felt no pulling on the hamstring.
I also threw in an entry fee of $10 to join an Oct 1- Nov 17th Fall Challenge at my gym. The winner gets a cash prize and points are awarded for completion of a list of activities including workouts, water intake, food tracking, meal prep, etc. It's all tracked on the gym's phone app. Given my competitive nature, this is perfect focal point for me. I get the best results when I have a goal.
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First trip back to the gym in about ten days after taking a recovery week last week. All the little niggling aches and pains were gone, and I didn't have to pull back on sets/reps/weight at all, just jumped right in as if I never left and went for it. Felt great! Only down side remains the fact I don't have time to soak in the hot tub following leg day, since I have to get to work.
I reworked my lifting routines this past week also, so we'll see how the week goes. Leg day was a success, so here's hoping my pull/push/full body days are equally well received.
Squats 4x20
BB Step-Ups, Romanian Deadlift, BB Hip Thrust, Standing Calf Raises 3x10
Abs (Cable crunches, planks)4 -
Easy hour again today of cardio. Did 30 minutes on the treadmill @ 15% incline (walking @ around 2.3/2.4 MPH, which surprisingly gets my HR up to around 120 or so) and then 30 minutes on the Assault Bike.1
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It was bike day, and I meant to do about 20 miles, easy pace.
Here's the thing: at around mile 14 or so, I met by happenstance a friend I haven't seen in a long time (my former massage therapist, nice guy (no, not like that)). So, we rode together for a while, and it was fun to catch up conversationally, so I rode further than I'd planned.
I hadn't thought of anything 'like that' until you denied it
@Lietchi: At least it was beautiful? I'm sorry it was rushed.MikePfirrman wrote: »@Lietchi -- that looks beautiful. Sorry your coworker took a bit of the fun out of it!
I could see some people were struggling to keep up, and we even lost part of our group (they got lost and ended up taking public transportation back to the starting point)! I thought it was very disrespectful towards the group. But it wasn't too bad for me (thanks to three years of building up my fitness level).
Friday's workout: treadmill run, 5.5km in 37min34sec (8.8kph)
Saturday's workout: treadmill run, 7.5km in 52min27sec (8.6kph)
Sunday's workout: treadmill run, 8km in 53min52sec (8.9kph)
Monday: rest day
Today:
First strength training: 3 sets each of DB bench press, DB shoulder press, BB rack pull, assisted pull-ups, dip bar leg raises
Then a short run (in my zero support strength training All-stars to save time) a short 2.5km treadmill run in 15min49sec (9.5kph).
My strength training is horribly irregular, last time was 8 days ago. I feel frustrated at lot lack of progress, but at the same time just generally not feeling motivated for strength training - that makes recomp a bit tricky 🤪
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Rowing bow of the quad today, with an oddball route: It was windy, so especially choppy on the most upstream stretch (after a curve), but the ski team was practicing on the downstream side. We rowed the full upstream chunk once, decided the chop at the bridge end was un-fun, then did a couple of loops from near our boathouse to the curve before the bigger chop started, total 8.2k.
Steady state (with decent energy through the boat, decent pace) because I was spending more time on watching the water/wind (and the gathering dark clouds), didn't really think about calling interval pieces.
We got back to the dock just as thunder started rolling, saw a flash of sheet lightning as we were getting out of the boat. Surprising how fast four 60+ y/o people can lift/carry a 40-foot boat and oars back into the boathouse, when motivated!
Yesterday my "workout" was the increase in heart rate when I learned that the tree-trimming I'd planned on 7 very big maple trees needed to be rethought as removal of most of them (internal rot), with a cost-estimate increase from 4 figures to 5 figures. Ouch, ouch, ouch. Other than that, no workout.3 -
It was bike day, and I meant to do about 20 miles, easy pace.
Here's the thing: at around mile 14 or so, I met by happenstance a friend I haven't seen in a long time (my former massage therapist, nice guy (no, not like that)). So, we rode together for a while, and it was fun to catch up conversationally, so I rode further than I'd planned.
I hadn't thought of anything 'like that' until you denied it
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LOL, @lietchi! I'm probably twitchy about it because some of my RL social circle were a little weird about the idea that I was seeing a male MT in the first place . . . every couple of weeks for several years. He's an excellent MT. Unfortunately, he's decided to change careers to something involving geography, mapping, and drones. We're still friends, though.
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Yesterday my "workout" was the increase in heart rate when I learned that the tree-trimming I'd planned on 7 very big maple trees needed to be rethought as removal of most of them (internal rot), with a cost-estimate increase from 4 figures to 5 figures. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Yikes 😬 that's not really a negociable expense, I imagine (dangerous situation?).
My workout today: 9km, at a steady speed of 8.8kph for 45 minutes and the rest at 9.3kph. Autumn has arrived, which is a bit depressing, but at the same time so happy my basement is cooling down now.
My Garmin estimated calorie burn seems even more off today than usual: only 425 calories, according to exrx.net it should be around 600!1 -
Took a quick ride after work tonight, lasting just under an hour. Rode one of my regular weekday routes. Didn't bother with the garmin, but I think this route is 16 miles.
I've learned to keep an eye peeled for bears, since they eat raspberries along the river, then amble through the woods up the hill, often crossing the road just before dusk.4 -
Intended to do an easy elliptical hour today (I'm a little sore from Monday), but then I ended up just doing the same pace as last time.
It was good to be moving.
P.S. Tried out my new air purifier today. Wow, it smells so fresh in the room! Why didn't I get one of those before??? It will be interesting to see how it does against smoke whenever the next fire hits.2 -
Thursday morning gym session with trainer. Chest press lying on BOSU ball, KB RDLs, KB squats, plus core work including crunches w/dynamax ball, etc. I really miss going to the gym during the summer break, so it's great to be back. Best part was the trash talking in advance of the 7 week Fall Challenge.
May run tonight if the rain stops.3 -
Ran a 5k4
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Yesterday my "workout" was the increase in heart rate when I learned that the tree-trimming I'd planned on 7 very big maple trees needed to be rethought as removal of most of them (internal rot), with a cost-estimate increase from 4 figures to 5 figures. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Yikes 😬 that's not really a negociable expense, I imagine (dangerous situation?).
My workout today: 9km, at a steady speed of 8.8kph for 45 minutes and the rest at 9.3kph. Autumn has arrived, which is a bit depressing, but at the same time so happy my basement is cooling down now.
My Garmin estimated calorie burn seems even more off today than usual: only 425 calories, according to exrx.net it should be around 600!
I don't know if this might be a consideration or not, but sometimes you can find people that know what they're doing that will do it at a discount for the wood. I had a neighbors tree fall in my yard around 10 years ago in Ohio. It luckily only broke my split rail fence and not my shed. I actually offered to pay to clean it up (much cheaper than taking one down) in exchange for the firewood and if he fixed the fence. It was a young couple with small kids, so I didn't want to see him pay a ton for it. The wood alone was probably worth $500 and I paid two guys to clean it up and stack it $250. And this was a huge Walnut Tree.
Today was back at the 8 X 2 minute/2 minute recovery row. Finished it this time, despite it being hot again and staying out late last night at Senior Karaoke night. I finished with a 1:57.6 average, pretty respectable for where I'm at now in my training. Crushed Karaoke night better (did Eric Clapton's Forever Man -- his voice is right in my wheelhouse). Just glad to get the row over!
Tonight is normally gym night. Might just lift at home. Not really easier but I don't have the travel there and back (an hour total drive). Nothing's really close where I live. My wife calls it "desert country". In truth it's a beautiful area, just 20 minutes from nearly anything.1 -
Like I said, I skipped Tuesday's usual bike ride, so I decided to try upping today's distance above my usual. Ended up at 31.89 miles, and a bit slower than usual, 10.0mph moving average. Partly, that was not wanting to add both distance and intensity, partly it was that several miles of the ride were out in the open, heading straight on into a 16-18mph North headwind. I also added an extra hilly bit at the end: Finally needed my easiest gear set on the hybrid, even though it was paved!
I supervised open rowing again tonight, but didn't row. I did take my handy beach towel, and did some yoga/stretching on the dock for a while, when waiting for the rowers to finish their circuit. That felt good!
@MikePfirrman, I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm afraid two things make that kind of approach difficult. First, this is urgent: The trees are rotten in the center, and could threaten my neighbors' house - very bad news. (They have a critically ill son in their home, so the thought of damaging their house is even worse than average.) Second, these are not just trees. These are *TREES*. We're talking 6 maple trees twice or more the height of my two-story house, probably at least 15-18" in diameter, and some of them rotted enough that the tree service's climber wasn't willing to climb all the way up them. This is big lift trucks to do the cutting, and many loads of (partly-rotted) wood to haul away or chip onsite. Multi-day project, multi-worker. Gotta be done, though.🤷♀️2 -
@AnnPT77 -- sorry about that! That's very tough.
Did my lift tonight at home and scrapped the gym. My home lifting sets are harder when done in 40 minutes than my usual spread out through an entire morning, but got done with the 30 compound reps for shoulders, chest and legs X 5 sets. Definitely pooped now.1 -
Two aquarium dives. Scrubbed and used the siphon.
Stomped around in the very steep woods afterwards looking for mushrooms. I found essentially none.
Rode my bike to go see the Vaux's Swifts again.2 -
Wednesday was pull day at the gym:
Pullups, BB row, BB shrugs, high machine row, preacher curls
Abs (Side) - BB side bend, side plank
Today was push day:
Cable twists, bench press, incline DB press, decline cable fly, standing overhead press, cable pushdown
Abs (Twist) - Perloff press, cable woodchoppers (low, mid, high)2 -
Yesterday: absolutely nothing. I had hoped to have time, but I seriously misjudged prep time for dinner.
Today: postponed my run till after dinner, and made it a bit shorter than originally intended.
6.5km in 45min 25sec (8.6kph). Didn't feel terribly smooth, but hey, getting my mileage in.
Been stagnating a bit lately, I might have to look into a real training program instead of just 'doing my thing'.2 -
Not hard to guess: Row day. Ski team out again, did the double upstream loop, for about 9k. In the quad, I was in 3 seat (behind - or is it ahead of? - stroke rower, who's in the stern).
Chilly enough for pogies for the first time this Fall, today - 40sish F, to start. (Pogies = funny mitten-ish, cocoon-ish thingies that go over the oar handle, enclose your hands in warmth.) I'm not colder after weight loss at all . . . except for my finger tips, when out in cold weather. I rarely used my pogies when overweight, now I appreciate them every Spring/Fall when it's cold.)
We did some race starts, some power 10s. One of the club's best rowers - one of the learn-to-row coaches - was out in her single today, prepping for the Head of the Charles, the biggest rowing race in the world, coming up in a few weeks in Boston. So it was our quad, a single from our group, and her single.
Not rowing tomorrow as we usually would, as the university women's team has a scrimmage on our river and it'll be a madhouse. (I might go watch.) Thought about rescheduling to Sunday, but the forecast is all day grim, cold rain. Might bike tomorrow, might not. We'll see. Back to my usual bike/row schedule once the weather sorts out.
I can feel Winter coming. I don't mind Winter generally, but I grieve the coming break in on-water rowing, trail biking, TBH. Machines are just not the same.3
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