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naughty weather

well good luck for tommorow and i hope the weather behaves itself for you

crimebabe: regarding the 20 sets of leg presses with rather low weight - you might be interested in this article here: http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1305014
it delves into indications that males and females react the same way to the same kind of exercise, i.e.: what makes a guys muscle grow makes a girls muscles grow, as well as running a lengthy (and quite informative) critique of the classic "girls routine" in gyms.
just pretend the corny uh-im-so-manly-talk wasnt present in the article, as the rest is quite sound advice.

Did my run - in the rain .
Thank God I have someone to run with....

gekitsu thank you very much for the informative article
i will be sure to include some of those excersise into my routine on saturday when i got to the gym

the diet that they have on there is likely to help aswell

good luck with any excersise that you might be doing

well done katrine
so who are you running with
your right though it is always good to have a partner when excersisng it helps keep morale

Running with my HFA son's best friend's Mum, if that makes any sense
She's doing a woman's triathlon, so she hops on her bike and picks me up - we run - and she hops back on her bike and off she goes!
All this is after the kids are asleep.. I must admit the dark is quite nice when you're just getting started - don't feel like such an idiot. And don't have time to feel like an idiot, cause we're chatting about the kids and stuff.
So I'm happily surprised that it's all working out - I've never been a great one for sports.

Very impressed. I missed yesterday's cos was raining, hard, and today's cos got some kind of gastro and spent most of the day in the bed.

Really impressed by how everybody's doing and really glad you're still all posting cos it helps me think that all is not lost cos missed one. ( the wet weather I'd already counted out ).

aww i hope you feel better soon darlin

... did it again!

omg it was almost as hard as the first time, just after two days inactivity ............erk phew ... ... ... ...

steam . . . . . .

congrats everyone who is doing it regularly. i will be more careful in future not to let two days go by, maybe even go out in the rain... er um... maybe.

Go girl !
Glad your gastro's gone.
I'm scheduled for tomorrow - maybe the weekend break has been too long, to... I'll see tomorrow.

Thank you!

Just got back from today's one.

Wasn't too bad today. Puffed and steaming but not dead.

How's everybody else doing?
Good luck and lots of positive vibes! * * * *

I want to say thank you again to everybody who has posted on this thread. I am almost completely sure that I wouldn't have managed even one walk without your support/participation.

I look forward to hearing more about how it's going , yoga, running, weights, treadmills, kettlebells, exercises etc! How is the pool, Hartzofspace?

Pleased to hear it didn't kill you.
I survived, too!
Good walk tomorrow.

Phew! Good Congratulations!
Thank you.

It was alright, though I am getting a bit worried about my knees on the steep up and down slopes; they're starting to ache/stiffen/pull a bit. ( have always had weak knees, which is why can't run). It's slowing me up a little too, which means less aerobic/cardio effect.

So I think will switch to the other "circuit" which although has the same up-slope at the start , doesn't, as far as I can remember, have such severe down gradients. Which will make a change too.

PS: Noticed cheekbones more visible again ... I'm not fat, but I was getting "pasty", and just the last 2 weeks exercise has already had an effect!

Good idea changing the route - both for knees and variaty.
Could you do some knee excercises or something to strenghten them? Or what about..... drum roll.... swimming
And eat fish oil! It'd my answer to everything, but seriously it is supposed to be good for joints.
My running partner can't come tomorrow.... she's away but will run where she is. Here's for me having the backbone to do it alone!

Thank you, maybe I should eat more fish. I eat a bit of fatty fish ( sardine and tuna, or mackerel ) about once each week , but am not too hot on oil away from its natural container, the fish meat. Hmm.
Here's to you! Lots and lots of backbone. Best wishes and strength to do it.

Did the other walk; it is longer, 45 mins instead of 30, and also lots less tough on the knees, so think will probably be doing that one most days from now on.

Also the second half of the walk is nicer, still in full countryside with river/ravine and cliffy rocky overhangs and old stone walls etc rather than a main road and the high street to finish off.

So that is good. How is everyone else doing? It was a close thing today. I almost bottled out, almost excused myself on the grounds of my knees needing a break, and then my son wasn't keen today. But we discussed the possible "enemy encampments/bases" we might find in this till now unexplored area and managed to get out on a wave of exploratory fervour.

How'd it go, Katrine? Hope was good weather for you.