[sarabethv]

Pretty much what the title says - are there any runners on the board and if so I need advice.

Shoes - I have a short fat foot and usually buy my sneakers in the kid's department but those don't have enough support and I can't run in them. Where can I get shoes to fit?

Right now I am walking around two housing blocks in my subdivision - takes about 14 minutes.

Do I go for more distance - more time - or work up to running this and THEN go for the others?

[Darth Wychipu]

run/walk method by Jeff Galloway there's also lots of good advice on that site.

I prefer Nike's due to my flat feet and pronation. My last pair were Munoz. I liked them all right, too. Expect to spend $100 on a decent pair of running shoes. At running oriented stores, they will measure your foot and fit you to something appropriate.

[Benevolance]

Iaiken had a really good run down of the different brands of shoes somewhere on the forum in a previous running shoe thread. I prefer New Balance myself. Good support, and you can put on a lot of miles with them.

Like Wychi says, go to a running store. A good salesperson ought to be able to identify any foot problems you might have and recommend an appropriate shoe. A good pair of shoes will cost ~$100. You could pay more, but you won't really get much more value. Likewise, if you pay less, you're probably not getting enough support.

As for building up, I recommend starting committing to a time and not a distance. I'm not sure what your fitness level is - so this is just a random example - but set a goal of run/walk for 15 minutes and build your way up to 30 or 40 minutes. Then, once you're used to walking/running at a continuous pace for ~35 minutes, start increasing the time you spend running vs. walking. And so on until you are running continuous over a long distance.

[chai-ta]

Having gone from not capable of running 4 blocks (without massive shin splints) to running 4-5 miles for lunch - I strongly recommend getting a heart monitor. When starting - you run until your heart hits your peak. At that point you walk (fast) until it comes back down a bit and start running again. Basically whenever your heart beats to fast - take a break. This will help from hurting yourself from a myriad of injuries (do to over excersizing early on)

Repeat the cycle until you can run for the distance/time you want and then start increasing either.

And yeah - shoes == happy. Highly recommend going to a specialty running store to get your first pair. They will cost more, but it is well worth getting the right shoes. After that the online places work fine for getting good deals on the shoe you need. (Some gym's include discounts on shoes for their members, from online retailers - like 24hr fitness).

If you have real bad pronation - Beast FTW!!!

[Darth Wychipu]

Benevolance, on Feb 11 2008, 10:10 AM, said:

As for building up, I recommend starting committing to a time and not a distance. I'm not sure what your fitness level is - so this is just a random example - but set a goal of run/walk for 15 minutes and build your way up to 30 or 40 minutes. Then, once you're used to walking/running at a continuous pace for ~35 minutes, start increasing the time you spend running vs. walking. And so on until you are running continuous over a long distance.

I started with this method. I have had repetitive bilateral ligament tears on my ankles; plus an Achilles tendon cut. I broke it down to run 1min/walk 5min for 15 min, then built up sequentially to where I could run for 15 min. then I added 10 min more walk, gradually adding more time to run/walk, etc. I didn't focus on distance. Just how long I was running for. Once I was able to run for 30 min straight, I went for distance. Got to where I could run a mile and walk a mile. Or run a mile, stop at McMennamin's for a couple of beers and then run the second mile back. Oh how I love summers on the Columbia river!

I so need to get back on my running program.....I've been lazy and inconsistent all winter.

[sarabethv]

I went to a shoe store (sport running shoe type store) and the guy measured my foot and said; "We do not have anything to fit you. We only sell adult shoes." :(

I think this is going to be my main problem, finding a pair of shoes to fit.

I'm not sure drinking beer in between running miles is healthy - isn't there some law about running under the influence?

P.S. thank you guys.

This post has been edited by sarabethv: 11 February 2008 - 07:08 PM

[OverdrivePrime]

Ah man, I miss running. Eventually my weight gained from the thyroid thing combined with serious bowleggeness and crazy pronation has fucked up my right knee to the point where I don't have much cartilage left. The doc said I'll have to replace the knee in 5 years or 15 years depending on how much I continue to use it.

So now I'm limited to non-impact activities for my anaerobics.

[sarabethv]

Damn ODP. Jon had his knee replaced a little over a year ago now. He is very happy with the results since he was in pain all the time before the surgery. They tried a couple other surgeries prior to the replacement 'cause he is so young. So do you swim? I hear that one is pretty low impact and really good, but my swimming .... well lets just say that I barely don't drown.

[OverdrivePrime]

I am highly open to swimming. I do enjoy it, and I'm a fairly strong swimmer... just could stand a lot of improvements in my form. There's a pool that I can use thanks to the community gym I belong to, but... motivating myself to prepare for the cold cold cold temperatures after going for a nice swim is difficult. Once I figure out the Pool's schedule, I'll probably use it, but for now laziness has me lifting weights and putting in time on an elliptical. It's not bad, but swimming would be much better.

[Darth Wychipu]

I can't do the elliptical....feels too much like a hamster on a wheel....I prefer to work out outside if possible. That's why I run and hike (trail run). I know that because of all of my old injuries that the impact isn't great, but *NOT* working out is so much worse. I'm just careful and try to spend most of my time running on dirt rather than pavement. Around here, the dirt is most often mud...which is squishy and absorbs a lot of impact.

[Benevolance]

...and sometimes keeps a shoe or two. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. :)

[Vino]

OverdrivePrime, on Feb 12 2008, 08:55 AM, said:

I am highly open to swimming. I do enjoy it, and I'm a fairly strong swimmer... just could stand a lot of improvements in my form. There's a pool that I can use thanks to the community gym I belong to, but... motivating myself to prepare for the cold cold cold temperatures after going for a nice swim is difficult. Once I figure out the Pool's schedule, I'll probably use it, but for now laziness has me lifting weights and putting in time on an elliptical. It's not bad, but swimming would be much better.

I swim, I hate all other forms of working out. I swim 1k twice a week. It takes me about 30 minutes to swim 1k which is about twice as long as it used to take me when i was in shape. so im currently working on being able to do it under 20 minutes and then work on adding more distance.

I feel so much better when i swim. I just dont find that i feel as good when i run or use an elliptical. I dont know what it is about swimming but it just makes me really happy.

[Darth Wychipu]

I went for a walk/jog this morning. After my usual run/walk work out, I sprinted down the culdesac to home. Felt good to really get a good run!

[OverdrivePrime]

Got back from a meeting downtown early today so I hit the gym earlier than usual. I was happy to see that some of the kids from the local high school were reading the New Yorker while on the treadmill. I think I can raise kids in this community.

On the elliptical I usually do about a half hour, which for me translates to somewhere between 520 and 560 calories burned and somewhere upwards of 4000 strides.

I miss running. :(

[sarabethv]

OverdrivePrime, on Feb 13 2008, 02:53 AM, said:

On the elliptical I usually do about a half hour

I am completely awestuck at this. I'm pretty sure that thing is a torture instrument.

[Tannim]

The Couch to 5K thing has been super useful for me. I'm on week 7.

Couch To 5K

It gets you ready to run 5K (3.1 miles) in nine weeks. I thought I'd give this up, but it's structured such that you (or I, at least) wanted to run more than was prescribed, and I always felt ready to run again. My goal is to do five miles a day, five times a week, and this has been an outstanding way to head towards that goal. Also the site I've linked has a lot of good information about shoes and stretches and what to do. I check it at least once a week to plan my next step.

[OverdrivePrime]

That looks like a pretty damn good program, Tannim. How'd you first lay eyes on it?

[Tannim]

My friends Kel and Matt told me about it when Kel started it. Then, about six months later, another friend of mine told me about it, and linked me to this page, which has podcasts for each week. The guy tells you when to warm up, run, walk, and cool down. The music is sort of generic techno music. It's not bad, but it's not anything I'm at risk of pop locking to. Which, I suppose, is good if you're trying to run. You can get it off of iTunes (if you use that) or download it from the guy's site. You can also burn the podcasts to CDs, if MP3s aren't your thing. Like I said, the music's kind of generic, but I used it mainly so I'd know when to change paces without using a watch.

[OverdrivePrime]

Very slick.
When doing biking/running/ellipticalling and gener out-working, I mostly listen to a 4 hour VNV Nation mix I've got. Most of their back-beats sync well with my running pace, and when I adjust the resistance of the machine up enough, work great for the elliptical machine too.

[Jahx]

The word I get at work is, when running press, if getting quota and doing everything the proper way and all that jazz you go 13 miles a night. Half of that time is while pushing or pulling hundreds of pounds of aluminum and plastic. That's part of what I like about the job, it's good excercise. Unfortunately, being laid off, I'm afraid I'll get out of shape. Hopefully the snow will let up enough for me to get out in the woods to keep my muscles used to it.

[sarabethv]

Tannim, on Feb 13 2008, 04:35 AM, said:

The Couch to 5K thing has been super useful for me. I'm on week 7.

Couch To 5K

It gets you ready to run 5K (3.1 miles) in nine weeks. I thought I'd give this up, but it's structured such that you (or I, at least) wanted to run more than was prescribed, and I always felt ready to run again. My goal is to do five miles a day, five times a week, and this has been an outstanding way to head towards that goal. Also the site I've linked has a lot of good information about shoes and stretches and what to do. I check it at least once a week to plan my next step.

Thanks. While I doubt I will run that in nine weeks, it is a good place to start.

[Tannim]

Well, you start doing a jog for a minute, and then walking for 90 seconds. The point is to ease you into it. It really is surprising how rapidly you build endurance, with all the rest periods between runs.

[sarabethv]

I woke up yesterday morning feeling like I had been run over by a truck - think the flu might have been attacking me, but I downed vit. C, and airborne and felt a little better this morning. Had to run Jon to eye doc early though. Thinking about an evening mile here in a bit.

[sarabethv]

*happy dance* did my .7 mile(s) today and actually broke into a run 3 times (okay for only maybe .2 miles but hey its something).

[Benevolance]

Good work, SB!

[Darth Wychipu]

sarabethv, on Feb 16 2008, 11:14 AM, said:

*happy dance* did my .7 mile(s) today and actually broke into a run 3 times (okay for only maybe .2 miles but hey its something).

Way to go! :dance: :dance: :dance:

That's how you start out....if you can only do .2 miles...so what. YOU DID .2 MORE MILES THAN LAST TIME!!!!

I hiked Beacon Rock yesterday...a mile uphill...let me know how off my game I am...was a little out of breath halfway up. I started running to improve my ability to hike uphill without gasping for breath. Last year this time, I went up Beacon Rock without being winded at all.

Then, I went out and danced my ass off at a club last night. Feeling it today....but I'm going ice skating for the first time in...oh...like 20 yrs...something tells me I'm REALLY gonna be a hurtin' unit tomorrow.

If I hadn't gotten lazy about my running all winter, I wouldn't be so sore today.

[sarabethv]

Well to be fair, in your part of the country winters are icky and difficult to run outside. I did the walk/run thing again yesterday, was a bit more painful than the first time (shin splint type pain). Taking today off from the run, but will go again tomorrow.

[Benevolance]

Inspired by Sara, I've gotten up early every day this week to exercise. I feel great, though I'm disappointed at how much muscle I lost during my layoff.

Sara, I had shin splints when I started running. The first time I just ran through it, and running became a chore. My legs ached constantly. I was among the walking wounded. Eventually, I stopped running for a while.

When I resumed running regularly, I scaled back my intensity to the point where it didn't hurt whenever I started to get splints. It was frustrating to be walking sometimes when I felt I should be able to run, but in the end my progress was much better, and I was able to run without pain after a few weeks.

I don't know that it is the most scientific advice, but maybe it's helpful to know that if you stick with it and give your body ample time to recover, the situation improves.

[sarabethv]

Thanks Lance. I did rest a couple days and then started again. I'm still only jogging a little bit in the mile walk, but hey its more than before. I feel better overall also, and have lost 12 pounds.

Although for you having started again, this is rather like a star athlete taking a few weeks off, yeah you may be a little less than peak performance, but that still is better than 99% of the people out there. :)

[Benevolance]

We've had beautiful weather in Vancouver the last couple days and today was forecast to be even better. So I rode my bicycle to work. It felt good to ride again. Of course, the trip to work is mostly downhill. Going home...

[sarabethv]

At least it isn't uphill both ways in the snow.

I have failed lately. So much stuff going on, plus I was leaving at 6:15 in the morning to get Jon to work and then to work myself. However, now his truck is fixed, I will have a bit of time in the morning again and plan to start again (for about the millionth time) tomorrow morning.

[Benevolance]

Starting again is what good waffles do.

[/simpsons paraphrase]

[OverdrivePrime]

Since I can't run anymore (except when I defy medical recommendations and play ultimate frisbee), I've found that swimming and an elliptical are an effective replacement. The course isn't as pretty though, and I miss the fresh air.

It's not quite nice out enough to bike yet (even I would have been blown over this weekend), but I'm looking forward to getting my bike rolling again, and hopefully this summer I can buy a nice road bike to get me to and from work on a regular basis.

[chai-ta]

I'm debating running to/fro work. It's a measely 2 miles each way (downhill, and always perfectly sunny).

[Benevolance]

Or weather is pretty hit or miss, and I'm a fair weather cyclist by necessity.

But BC recently instituted a 'Green Plan', which is designed to be a revenue neutral carbon tax program. Most of the tax costs are picked up as a fuel surcharge. In July, they are issuing a rebate to everyone in BC to get the ball rolling. You can use it to offset your increased fuel costs, or put it towards your own green initiatives. Personally, I'm planning on buying some rain gear so I can commute in wet weather.

[sarabethv]

Two miles is definately doable. My work is 7.5 miles and 12 miles respectively and that is just a little too far for me to bike or walk (especially when the temperature gets back up to 105 +. Heck, who am I kidding its too far even when the weather is nice.

[Barak]

Yeah, the wife and I have totally different, yet totally similar issues. Her work is a 45 minutes -drive- away, mine is a "roll out of bed to the computer" length. in both case, there's no way to jog to it/

[sarabethv]

Barak, on Apr 16 2008, 12:33 AM, said:

Yeah, the wife and I have totally different, yet totally similar issues. Her work is a 45 minutes -drive- away, mine is a "roll out of bed to the computer" length. in both case, there's no way to jog to it/

You could go out the front door, and then jog around the house and back in :D

[Barak]

sarabethv, on Apr 15 2008, 08:04 PM, said:

You could go out the front door, and then jog around the house and back in :D

Yeah, assuming I could convince myself I was a dumbass. :)

[Jahx]

Are you hiring Barak?

[Barak]

Jahx, on Apr 16 2008, 03:01 AM, said:

Are you hiring Barak?

Sadly, there's times at which I have problems drumming up business for myself, much less have employees. :(

I could get ya a job in Salamanca, however.

[Jahx]

Pitfighting for money on the reservation?

[Barak]

Nah, selling smokes in a call center.

Ya do get cheap ass smokes though!

[Jahx]

Yeah, my dad had some up until yesterday. They were box instead of soft pack like he likes so he told me to help him smoke them up. Saved me $1.50 a pack buying them from him. The paper they use in New York makes them taste and burn funny though.

[Barak]

Perhaps, but at 8.50$ a carton I ain't too particular..

[sarabethv]

How the hell did my running thread wind up talking about smoking? You guys go smoke outside.

This post has been edited by sarabethv: 17 April 2008 - 09:35 AM

[sarabethv]

I did a mile this morning with probably half of it at a jog. Yay. I am seeing some improvement.

[Tannim]

In running news, my doc said I should be able to start running again in about three weeks. Three weeks. It's taking forever to heal from this stupid ankle breaking. The good news is, I'm now walking (hobbling) without a cane or crutches or the aircast they had me in. Now it's just a matter of loosening everything and getting the muscles working right again.

[sarabethv]

Yay. Although, since you were quite the runner prior to the owie, you should be able to get back into it quickly. Glad to hear you are doing better big guy.

[Benevolance]

I don't know if this came up before, but how did you manage to break your ankle?

[OverdrivePrime]

He quadruple botched* his walking check.







*(Tannim is made using the White Wolf system and has a 4 in Dexterity. Sadly, the DM called for a pure attribute roll. Dude didn't even get to add willpower.)

[Tannim]

Benevolance, on Apr 21 2008, 10:55 PM, said:

I don't know if this came up before, but how did you manage to break your ankle?

In an effort to step past a large patch of ice on my neighbor's sidewalk, I put my right foot in the adjoining snowbank, so as to step over the large patch of ice with my left foot. Instead, my left foot slipped on said ice, and I fell backwards, torquing my right leg while my foot stayed more or less in place. I broke both leg bones at the ankle, and dislocated my foot in the process.

OverdrivePrime, on Apr 22 2008, 05:25 AM, said:

He quadruple botched* his walking check.

*(Tannim is made using the White Wolf system and has a 4 in Dexterity. Sadly, the DM called for a pure attribute roll. Dude didn't even get to add willpower.)

If only I'd been given a chance to use Rage.

[sarabethv]

Damn, that must have been incredibly painful.

[Benevolance]

OUCH!

[Tannim]

sarabethv, on Apr 22 2008, 05:23 PM, said:

Damn, that must have been incredibly painful.

To reply to both you and Benevolance, I will say that it certainly didn't rank up there with the worst blowjob I've ever received. The nice thing was, even when I could see my leg bone pressing against my skin, I had the dim awareness that the snow surrounding my foot would keep some of the swelling down, at least.

When I got wheeled into the ER, I got many comments about doing something 110%, as I'd also dislocated my foot. The next day, the surgeon who operated on me looked at the xrays with me and when he got his first glimpse said "Christ, you fucked yourself!" I would have found this irritating if not for the present but dulled Irish accent.

I have an email I sent a bunch of my friends and family about two weeks after the surgery that I'll share if people want. It involves staple removal, loss of manual dexterity, and me totally freaking out about my foot.

[sarabethv]

Tannim, on Apr 23 2008, 04:58 AM, said:

To reply to both you and Benevolance, I will say that it certainly didn't rank up there with the worst blowjob I've ever received. The nice thing was, even when I could see my leg bone pressing against my skin, I had the dim awareness that the snow surrounding my foot would keep some of the swelling down, at least.

When I got wheeled into the ER, I got many comments about doing something 110%, as I'd also dislocated my foot. The next day, the surgeon who operated on me looked at the xrays with me and when he got his first glimpse said "Christ, you fucked yourself!" I would have found this irritating if not for the present but dulled Irish accent.

I have an email I sent a bunch of my friends and family about two weeks after the surgery that I'll share if people want. It involves staple removal, loss of manual dexterity, and me totally freaking out about my foot.

Do you have pictures?

You know, everything just sounds so cute when said with an Irish accent.

[Tannim]

sarabethv, on Apr 23 2008, 10:29 AM, said:

Do you have pictures?

You know, everything just sounds so cute when said with an Irish accent.

Are you asking if I have pictures of the worst blowjob I ever got, the scars from the surgery, or of the doctor being all Irish-y? :unsure:

[sarabethv]

Tannim, on Apr 24 2008, 02:10 AM, said:

Are you asking if I have pictures of the worst blowjob I ever got, the scars from the surgery, or of the doctor being all Irish-y? :unsure:

Well, the doctor being Irishy would be good, and maybe the scars - but I think I will pass on the blow job pics, especially if it was the worst one.

[Jahx]

A video would be funnier though.

[OverdrivePrime]

Eh, all you can see is the back of a Whoppi Goldberg's head and Tannim silently weeping. It's pretty disturbing, really.




Aaaanyway, back to running around and sweating. Ultimate Frisbee season has started up again and I'm on a team where I'm actually one of the better players (maybe 6th out of 16). After briefly flirting with playing in sneakers for three points, I've decided to risk cleats again, and hopefully this time I won't fuck up my heel and knee again. I'm certainly more aware of the cleats now and keeping on my toes instead of my normal bad habit of planting off a heel.

I've managed to cram my orthopedic inserts into the cleats, and since our team is large enough that I can sit out one in three points I can rest my knee and stretch pretty often. The end result is that my knee and feet feel good again just two days after the game. Last fall I was pretty well wrecked after a hard game and generally had my knee and feet/ankles recovered just in time to play the next week. This is a vast improvement that I hope to keep up. I'm trying to reach a nice balance between intensity of play and safety. I'm constantly pulling myself back from going full-bore as hard as I can, but I think that the result of slowing down a little is that I'm actually more accurate in my throws and am better able to find a mark.

Oddly, I was able to keep up on defense with some pretty skinny guys (I got burned badly once, but the dude was fast as fuck!), but I think that may have something to do with getting rid of some excess fat this spring and being smarter about playing back on guys that seem like they've got better speed (most people). Hopefully I'll manage to get better pictures.

Unfortunately, when I'm one of the better players on the team, it means that we're really not very good. I've posted a picture from the game and a picture of the final score on my little bloggy thing that I'm using as part of a demo site for a grad school project.

[Benevolance]

Looks fun! Those people standing on the sidelines watching? I think I could do that. I think I could do that well.

[sarabethv]

Hey ODP - the photo in you blog thingie - the kid with the frisbee - he kicked your butt didn't he? He looks way too happy and proud.



BTW - cute family

This post has been edited by sarabethv: 24 April 2008 - 12:31 PM

[OverdrivePrime]

Heh, yeah, Patty's family is a fun bunch to hang out with. That little kid with the Frisbee is pure comedy. He was on my team and spent most of the game hanging out in the end zone looking for worms and bugs. No one guarded him and every once in a while, I'd shout a heads up to him and lob him the frisbee. He'd almost always catch it for an easy score. The kid talks about Pokemon about 26 hours a day, but he's a surprisingly good catch.

His older brother is the one on the bottom left of the picture in the green shirt who looks slightly peeved that his kid brother scored way more points than he did. :lol:

[Barak]

Yanno.. I had never heard of Ultimate before you talked about it a while back.. This time, I looked into it, and it seems pretty cool. even that Callaway (or whatever) story is pretty neat.

Oh yeah and apparently calling it Ultimate Frisbee is a big no no.

[Kishi]

Man, Ultimate Frisbee is one of the few things I miss about college.

[sarabethv]

I will probably NOT be running later today.

[Tannim]

So Saturday, I went for my first run since I broke my ankle.

It was more like a shambling trot.

Today was my third, and it felt like I was running, instead of limping at speed. Progress.

[sarabethv]

Hey maybe if you break the other foot, I might be able to beat you in a race if you are on crutches at the time. :)

Seriously, congrats.

[Tannim]

I am at week three of this and let me tell you, those three minutes are not easy when you're used to 60 and 90 second jogs. Today will be my second attempt at it. Here's hoping it gets easier with practice.

ETA: It is easier with practice, and my ankle is behaving better. I get the feeling that I'm running faster than the first time I did this, back in January. Maybe it's because I've already been broken once, and don't fear it. More likely, it's easier to get a full stride when I'm not wearing four layers of clothing on the bottom and top.

This post has been edited by Tannim: 27 May 2008 - 01:15 PM

[sarabethv]

Congrats Tannim - glad to hear you are doing well.

[Barak]

Tannim has to do well or he'll scowl at himself and make himself feel bad!

[sarabethv]

Well he is kinda big - if he scowled at me I would feel bad too. Maybe that is what I need - he should send me a picture of him scowling and every time I slack off (which I have been doing lately) I would look at it and run a mile or 10.

[sarabethv]

Update: Still not running - even at 7 in the morning it is 100 degrees, but on the bright side, I've lost 15 pounds.

[Tannim]

I'm on Week 6. Did 5 minutes of running, 3 minutes of walking, 8 minutes of running, 3 minutes of walking, and then 5 minutes of running before a 5 minute cooldown. Next up (I'll rest tomorrow) is two sets of ten minute runs broken up by three minutes of walking, and then the third set is twenty-five straight minutes of running.

[OverdrivePrime]

Dude, nice! Sounds like a hell of effective regimen.

sarabethv, on Jun 16 2008, 10:55 PM, said:

Update: Still not running - even at 7 in the morning it is 100 degrees, but on the bright side, I've lost 15 pounds.

Way to go, Sara! :rock:

[sarabethv]

OverdrivePrime, on Jun 18 2008, 04:25 PM, said:

Dude, nice! Sounds like a hell of effective regimen.


Way to go, Sara! :rock:

Thanks :) I found the fitness channel. They have belly dancing on there. Now I just need to figure out how to record things.

[OverdrivePrime]

So, I've been hitting my goal of biking to work once a week since Memorial Day. The ride isn't the best thanks to road construction, fields of potholes and gravel, and a general .5 degree incline for the 12.5 miles in to work, but it's not that bad, and it only takes me about 45 minutes each way. And on the upside, I get to go down hill on the way home!

Of course, there's downsides, such as biking in fog, or forgetting to pack a lunch and not being able to drive to a sammitch shop, but I'm getting better!

[Benevolance]

Nice! That totally bests my 4 km to work. Mind you, I've got about a 10% incline on the way home. It's not far, but it's intense!

[OverdrivePrime]

Man, I'll bet. Do you bring pitons and a rock hammer for that? :blink:

[Tannim]

My one mile run time is down to about seven minutes.

[sarabethv]

Okay now you are just bragging. Six minute mile and you can be an FBI agent. :P

[OverdrivePrime]

Ah, to be 18 again. I used to be able to tear through the mile in 5:30. Now I'd be limping about halfway through, and add about 50% to that time. <_<

[Tannim]

sarabethv, on Jun 24 2008, 04:05 PM, said:

Okay now you are just bragging. Six minute mile and you can be an FBI agent. :P

Well, after that mile, my legs pretty much became useless.

[sarabethv]

Seriously, its way better than I could do. *sigh* And pretty impressive considering you were injured (and a smoker to boot)

[sarabethv]

Update. Still not running due to neighborhood; however, I'm hitting the gym on my lunch break at least 3 out of 5 days (the other days I can't even get out the friggen door and they don't pay me for that extra time).

At the gym, since I have limited time, I'm doing 10 minute warm up on bike or eliptical (if that is what that damned torture device is called). Then I alternate weight machines so that I wind up getting two full body work outs a week.

I also got back into martial arts YAY. Two nights a week, and I use the boxing bag I bought on weekends.

I lost 35 pounds this year. Not outstanding, but better than nothing.

[Nyoibo]

Quote

I lost 35 pounds this year. Not outstanding, but better than nothing.

The hell that's not, well done.

[OverdrivePrime]

Yeah, no kidding. I'd be doin' frickin' backflips if I was able to lose 35 pounds this year. I've still got 23 to go!