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Good Morning! It’s nice to hear from everyone. Sounds like everyone has some very good New Year’s plans. I’ve been trying to make some goals. Some days are really good, others not so good. The treadmill is not my fan. I struggle with mileage on it. Ive always disliked the thing but I could usually get up to 5 miles on it.…

Happy New Year! 🎉 I hope everyone had a nice holiday! Sharon-you look so cute in your outfit! I have to say I’m glad the holidays are over. I overindulged and my body let me know it. I’m back with a clear head and now it’s back to eating healthy again. Sometimes these holidays are good to make you realize how good it feels…

Happy Holidays! Our weather has been extreme for the past few days! Blizzard conditions around us and we’ll below zero wind chills. No outdoor activities for me. I still can’t believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I guess I’m just not into it this year. I had wanted everyone to pitch in and help. Not really happening. My one…

Good Morning! It’s so nice to hear from you guys. Gloria-MI had more snow than we did here. The Twin Cities had gotten a decent amount also. We are seeing the cold though. So glad your job is going well. There’s just something about office jobs and food. I always found it tough too. Always goodies in the break room.…

Good Morning! The holidays are upon us. Can’t say it feels like the holiday season. The temps have been up and down. We had a few nicer days again. Got one last walk in outside yesterday. Today it’s very windy, blowing snow and icy. We maybe had a half inch of snow but we had sleet for quite awhile before it changed to…

Good Morning! After a very cold stretch, we’re finally seeing a slight warm up. Should be almost 50 today. The snow we got is melting away. Everything is clear and dry. I can’t believe tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I’ve been watching what I eat closely. Exercise is so so. The cold and snow threw me back a bit. It’s really…

Hello! I haven’t posted much either Gloria. So many things going on here. My head has just been in a different place lately. The snow arrived yesterday and continued this morning. I needed to go to the clinic for blood work before my Dr appt tomorrow. I was a little nervous how slippery it would be. It was just slushy.…

Good afternoon! Gloria-Sounds like everything is going well for you. Knee pain is so familiar for me. One time I’m fine. Then one knee will hurt. Then the other one and then sometimes both. When I join the Y, I’m also going to sign up to work with a trainer at least a couple of times in hopes that he gives me some things…

Congrats Gloria on the new job! I hope things work out! My pain went away. I now just have my reg. aches and pains. Still doing the same old with exercise. Last Sat we hiked up a bluff. The challenges were rocks and roots. I took my hiking poles which ended up coming in handy. Beautiful view of the river valley from up…

Good afternoon! Gloria-how did the trail run go? I was doing well last week until I went to sit down (on the toilet to be exact), when I stood up I had a sharp pain go down the back of my thigh thru the back of my knee. It was extremely painful. I tried stretching, icing, foam roller and walking. It got a little better but…

Good Morning! Fall is here in MN! Cooler temps and yes the Fall colors are starting to show. It’s been extremely dry and so the leaves on a lot of the trees look really dry. We need rain! I’ve been pretty much staying on track with my exercise but last week I got thrown off with my eating. Couldn’t really log my dinners…

Good Morning! Gloria-those temps would be way too warm for around here. We’ve had 60’s and 70’s. Most of my exercise this week has been doing work. I’ve gotten on the elliptical and 1 dog walk and that was it. I spent a lot of time deep cleaning my sons house and yesterday everyone pitched in to clean up the outside. My…

Way to go Gloria! It looks like you’re making progress. Today is a warm and humid day but starting tomorrow, fall temps will arrive. Lows in the 40’s which is perfect sleeping weather and highs in the 60’s. Perfect running weather even though I’ll most likely be walking. My stomach muscles are still sore from that walk I…

Good Morning! It’s feeling like Fall! Evening temps in the 50’s. Highs are generally in the 70’s. We do have a few 80’s coming up. No humidity though. I made the 1 yr mark with my hip! I can’t believe it’s been a yr. Although I feel great, I still have issues. I wish PT wasn’t so expensive even after insurance. Yesterday I…

Good Morning! Gloria-how was your run on Labor Day? Your weather is way too hot for me this time of the year. I’m so over sweating so much. Monday I finally made it around the lake. My knee was behaving for once. I will admit I didn’t enjoy the walk. It took too long and after running it, it was tough. A couple of times I…

Good Morning! The end of summer is coming fast. I will be honest, I’m ready for fall and the cooler temps. Although we haven’t been seeing the extreme temps., we’ve had our share of humidity this year. I’m tired of going out to walk the dogs only to come home wet from sweat. The dogs don’t enjoy the heat either. The…

Good Morning! Our weather has been ok. Sometimes humid but the temps aren’t too bad. It’s just feeling a bit like Fall right now. The College students return this week and in a few weeks school will begin for the public schools. August has flown by. I’ve been pretty happy with my energy level lately. Little by little I’m…

Good evening! Gloria-How did your 5k go? Our weather has been crappy the last couple of days. No rain showing up on radar but we got it. Dark and cloudy. Really hard to make any plans. The Celebration of Life I went to yesterday was at my Aunts house. She lives in the Valley and everything was held out in her flower…

Good Morning! After 2 awfully humid, miserable days, we’re having a touch of fall. 80 during the day and 50’s at night. Feels so good! This weather gives me extra energy. Gloria-I know it’s hard to follow a plan that’s slower than you’d like. C25K program was that for me. It was so hard to stop running when I felt I could…

Hello! It’s another hot day here. Sharon-my Garmin didn’t work with a treadmill. I had to manually enter my workout. I’m glad surgery went well. Gloria-cute pic. That stinks with your shoes. I really need to switch to my new Brooks. I think my shoes are causing part of my knee pain now. I can’t believe it’s August already.…

Good evening! Hi Em! I sure do miss Spark. We’ve had the heat and humidity also. Still just walking and Elliptical. I have good days and not so good days. Mostly my knees. Bursitis in my elbow. Ortho said I have a bit of arthritis also. Why not. Seems to have gone everywhere now. Can I just blame it on the vaccine? It…

Good afternoon! It’s been beautiful weather the last couple of days. Low 80’s. I’m not getting used to it because hot weather is going to be returning. I’ve been plugging away at my exercise. A lot of my steps are coming from just doing random things. I’m not sure what I did this morning but I ended up logging my…

Good evening! Sharon-sorry you have to have surgery but I bet you’ll feel a lot better afterwards. Way to go on keeping up with your exercise. Do you have a long growing season that you’re planting squash now? I wish we had a longer time. Our garden isn’t doing well. Tomato plants are small and something keeps eating…

Good evening! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Ours started out wet. It was supposed to rain all day but it’s been dry most of the day. It is very humid plus no breeze whatsoever. It was a hot week here. They kept raising the temps as the week went on. Doesn’t really bother me because there was always a breeze.…

Good Morning! Gloria-it seems like a lot of people are getting that heat. We had the one day where the feel like temp was 108. Yesterday we had rain. Today we should see mid to upper 80’s but low humidity and windy so it’s not all that bad. I did my elliptical workout this morning and then I took my dog for a walk. It was…

Good Evening! I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Yesterday was a beautiful day. All I did for exercise was to walk my dog but I got plenty of steps in. It’s my shopping day so I had running around to do. We had a campfire last night so it was a late night and today we’ve had on and off rain today plus we’re seeing…

Good Morning! Another wet start. It’s not cold but it’s not all that warm either. Hopefully this rain will end soon and the rest of the day will be nice. Gloria-I have my last infusion tomorrow which will make 5 total. I will say, I’m not as exhausted as I was. I’m still tired but that could be because of my sleep being…

Good Morning! I’ve always ran on global running day but not this year. Makes me bummed when I think about it. We’ve had some really beautiful weather. Minus the wind. Today not so much. Rain in the forecast this weekend. Won’t complain. Everything’s so dry. Yesterday I pretty much felt like my old self. I was up moving…

Good morning! We had a nice weekend. Warm but super windy. Parts of the state had some pretty bad storms. Quite a few tornado warnings. We had a couple of short lived storms go thru last night. Both woke me up with the high winds. Maybe lasted 10 min. Tops. this morning it’s windy and cooler and sunny. I’m at my iron…

Good Evening! Sharon-that is hot. We had 2 days of that. I know my niece up in New Hampshire had those temps also. Here I turned the furnace on this morning. 40 degrees this morning with a light frost. I hope you get things figured out with your health. Today was a much better day. I did my elliptical this morning and the…