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Are you having problems with cadence lock? My husband was freaking out that his watch said 170s on basically an easy run which felt easy, and I’m almost certain it was cadence lock, since he has no heart rate data for the walk previous and then it jumps up to 160-170 and stays there the entire run. When your cadence is…

Glad to hear you are home and safe! The farxiga is supposed to be for certain types of heart failure as well as diabetes - hopefully it will help prevent more edema around your heart and lungs. It can cause hypos though so watch out especially if the doctor who prescribed it doesn’t understand that you normally eat…

See, here I travel 30 miles to my grocery store, so that doesn’t sound unreasonable!

FWIW delta usually shows symptoms more quickly than the original virus - often within a couple of days and usually within five. So with every passing day your sister is more likely to be in the clear.

I think some folks have mistaken a commenter for the OP…

There absolutely is evidence that domestic cats and dogs get covid, as well as many types of zoo animals. What the CDC is saying is there’s no evidence of humans catching it from pets. Which, considering that about 65% of cases here have an unknown source, isn’t saying much. Our contact tracing is extremely lacking and we…

I’m a big fan of weighted hip thrusts. If you feel awkward and stupid sprawled on the floor trying to balance a bar across your hips, I have found that the smith machine is actually useful for one thing - move a bench over to it and it’s great for hip thrusts. Back extension while holding a plate to the chest also…

Yes, congrats. An entire page of the CDC saying they haven’t studied this yet. “We haven’t seen any evidence” is not the same as evidence one way or the other.

I love that you would rather rake the bar over bare skin than your clothes. That’s hardcore!

Re: animal populations. I have been thinking for some time that populations of feral cats can probably act as a reservoir for covid, since we know cats can get it. There’s apparently “no evidence of transmission to humans” but that mainly means no one has studied it yet. The last thing we need is a panic with people…

Ugh, guys, I hit my panic weight. Gotta do something different. It’s because driving back and forth and feeding my mom means we are eating out too much and I never feel like cooking, plus the cooler weather means we run the same amount but walk less. I bought groceries and vowed to do better and then today my mother called…

Two runs since last report, one was more of a saunter than a run - my husband’s birthday, went out to the far side of the Wolf River and ran the trails there, but not with any particular motivation, just wanted to cover 5.3 miles at some sort of pace in honor of his birthday. We ended up with about 7 miles and about 3 of…

Geez Louise, I never would have found that on my own! I didn’t see there was a paragraph icon even after you said it, I had to keep looking for it! It doesn’t pop up until you begin to type, and then it’s actually hidden on my iPad, because the field is slightly larger than the screen size, so I have to drag the whole…

So I bought a hip thrust machine and it arrived yesterday - it’s basically a foldable angled bench with attachments for bands. It’s a one-trick pony but it was really on sale, and since I used to do hip thrust in the smith machine at the gym I haven’t been doing it much lately at home, hate balancing a barbell on my hips.…

I was having a complete snit last January - so over Covid and Covid life - and said that my goal was just to stay alive with all the people I love staying alive and unexpecting anything else seemed unfair. Knock on wood, so far so good. Although both my husband and mother have had major health crises. This is the first…

The cold weather uniform for female lifters at my gym seems to be a gray hoodie (which gets hung up on the rack as people come in) over a logo T and sweat pants. Summer, it’s capris and a t shirt. The more serious the lifter the more likely to be wearing something ratty which looks like the last thing clean on laundry day.…

It helps to be a tall 16 year old with good genetics! When I was a model I was 5’8” and weighed about 112. I ate like an absolute hog, stuff like whole boxes of oreos dipped in cool whip. Wendy’s every day. I also moved constantly - once when I was camping there was a crime and someone had to run for help and I just ran…

I don’t know how it compares to the wildcross but I love my Salomon speedcross- I think they are pretty much the opposite of a Hoka though! They have zero cushion and are pretty stiff. What I like about them is they are super luggy and grip really well especially in mud. The downsides are Salomons run tight in the…

My experience working as a waitress at Red Lobster in the 80’s was that poor people LOVE them some lobster. Anyone who ordered the lobster (most expensive thing on the menu) you knew they just spent their whole paycheck and you weren’t getting tipped. An actual wealthy person on the other hand would assume a chain…

Upper middle - I agree that the quiz doesn’t reflect the reasoning behind choices. For example foie gras is a hard no for me, but for ethical reasons, not culinary ones. My tastes probably are pretty much upper middle though. I clearly remember the first time I ever laid eyes on white bread, Bologna, and frozen peas, at a…

10k easy run on the Germantown greenway plus enough walking to bring it to 10.5 miles. Literally perfect running weather, I can’t see how it could be better. Trees are finally starting to turn here. I saw a junco and a Tennessee warbler, which haven’t been around since last March! Also hearing white throated sparrows…

A lot of big victories this weekend! @kgirlhart Congrats on your pr and Ag win! @sweetdaisy13 Congrats on your 50k PR! @martaindale Good racing! @katharmonic Congrats on your final peak!

Treat it as a learning experience! Dairy Queen isn’t going out of business and your wife isn’t going to stop liking them. Some things you could do next time: eat your planned meal while she eats hers, eat most of a planned meal and a small treat such as fries or a shake from DQ, look at the menu beforehand and figure out…

I sometimes buy vintage clothing from the 60s. Modern size M, between a 6 and a 10 depending on brand. 1968 size 16, and I have to wear a waist shaper to zip it!

I’m type 2. After 125 lb weight loss my a1c has stayed normal with diet and exercise but I definitely still have insulin resistance- if I overeat carbs my glucose shoots right up as if I never lost weight. I read recently that gestational diabetes increases the risk of type 2 later in life.

I also walk before running. My advice is some calisthenics indoors such as leg kicks to get a little warm, then dress to be uncomfortable but not freezing during your walk. But that’s really my tactic for warmer weather than what you’ve got! When it’s below freezing, dress not to suffer during your walk then remove layers.…

Have a good race @kgirlhart! You have earned it!

What’s your BMI? The question isn’t what size you wear, but whether you are a healthy weight for you, and no one can know that without knowing how tall and heavy you are. Sometimes people who are very muscular such a weightlifters are healthy at a higher BMI, and sometimes people with very small bones such as some Asians…

Meridies here, many years past. Great story!

If he’s like my husband he may be afraid of looking scrawny. My husband also went from a twig to a shlubby guy and thinks he looks better at a heavier weight - which is honestly true - but he looks even better at an appropriate weight with some muscle added back. Also, lifting heavy is excellent at improving insulin…