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Ready to run
I had a PICC line for 4.5 months. It's a permanent IV that I was doing meds through twice a day. I couldn't do serious exercises because I risked infection growing beneath the dressing and getting into my bloodstream and causing sepsis. As soon as I had the line out I went out for a couple of jogs. 8.7 miles and 3.7 miles…
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Ultramarathon Walk: Steps to the Sea
One week from today, at this hour I hope to have finished, I am walking from our local library to the ocean. I would appreciate a note of encouragement every day between now and then. It's 50 miles. Here's a bit of a blog about it. The video says the same thing as Post #1 but with images from the roads I walk around here…
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Vegan Biccies or Cookies
Peanutbutter-chocolate chip cookies This is a tripling of the recipe. You could also sub brown or granulated sugar for the other. The original recipe called for just granulated. Another note: This recipe is gluten-free; original recipe called for wheat flour. (I have no idea on calories, so don't eat the whole batch!) 3…
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Water Consumption
If I'm exercising in 80ºF weather, how often should I be drinking? How much? I have a long walk tentatively planned for 1 August. If I'm walking 4mph should I be taking in about a quart per hour, more or less? Any guidelines or resources you use would be appreciated. I have simply been hydrating heavily before going out…
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Not quite fun for most...
I need a bit of help in the form of you reading over what I include below. My colleagues have not given me any feedback. I'm going to ask your opinions on a quick, simple explanation of the All-in-Auction model for setting flexible, fair rates for water. It's a system developed in a recent paper by a professor in the…
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Free Album by My Student
Here's an album one of my students wrote and recorded. He calls it 'space folk' but I hear a lot of influences from Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, to Fleet Foxes. Simply described, it's alt rock with lots of acoustic. I'm thrilled to share it though I realise it won't be to everyone's taste. His sound is varied so it's…
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Personally Significant Destination
I've just had an idea to walk from my home to the ocean. For some of you that would take all of 5 minutes or less. For me it would take roughly 15 hours. It's nearly 60 miles away. For others it could be ridiculous and absurd to consider it as a single walk. So, if you were to select a personally significant destination,…
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Exercising with Google
This may be old news so stop me if you're heard this one before. I just put my home address into Google Maps for directions. I added a destination which is a midpoint on my walking route, then added as the last destination my home address again. It gave me the distance I'd walked. I was going .4 miles further than I…
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Ratey's Spark
I'm lifting a section about Dr. Ratey's look at brain-body benefits of exercise. After this fairly lengthy quote, I include the url where you can read the whole page. In Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, published earlier this year, psychiatrist John Ratey explores the neuroscience behind…
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Ultramarathon Walk
My goal, and I didn't find a place to mention this on my home page, is to eventually walk an ultramarathon. I am 41 (according to the site calendar) and want to be able to do it before or during my 45th year. Does anyone know of any good sites or groups dedicated to that sort of thing? This is the first time I've ever…
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Something Creative and Original
Being not a newbie but a two-daybie, I decided I should introduce myself and share a thought. I sculpt, hence my username. I also enjoy a wide variety of other activities but there's one thing I want to throw out as a recent discovery for myself regarding my eating habits. I was eating to pacify myself and when I quit a…
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Exercise History
In case this helps with putting things in perspective I wanted to share my own history with regards to exercise and diet. I hope that others will also share to give a broader view of how physical activity plays a part in our lives. As a teenager I raced bicycles. From 14 years to 18 or 19 I would ride 250-300 miles per…
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Music and Movement
I'm curious as to what music is best to get you moving. Lately the Reckless album by Bryan Adams has really been a great motivator for me.
