Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Oh yes, I wanted to add that if you want to run.......you should be able to do so. I saw a clip on the news this morning about a 100 year old man who runs a mile twice a week and plays doubles badmitton twice a week. He has competed in the Elder Olympics and won the 'World's Fastest Man' title in the over 80 division a couple years ago. He plans to enter again next year, when he is 101!

Ginger  Hope you feel better soon - those pre-school germs can be fierce.  

AnneW    Excited for you on the Polestar certification!  I've been teaching pilates for awhile and love it!  

Corinne  How did the ice skating go?  Did you skate too?  It's hard to keep kids entertained inside in the winter, isn't it?   

NatsFan  Sounds like a good combination, running to and from yoga.   I'm so inspired by all of the runners here!

Ruth   Very happy for you and the wonderful good news!!

Exercise today was an hour of pilates advanced mat -  I'm just going for it, and modifying arms as needed.   So far so good.  It's soooooo nice to get back into the routine.  

So happy for you Ruth!

Woo HOO, RUTH!!!  Glad for your great news!

Ab ripper tonight...otherwise day off from exercise...

Ruth- congrats on the great news; such an inspiration for those at the beginning of the AI journey!

The sprint tri is a 1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike and 3.1 mile run. I had to speed walk parts of the run as I have never been a runner. I am hoping to do it again this summer if I can get this body to cooperate.

Ruth woohoo that is great news.

All you ladies are so inspiring to me.  Keep up the good work.  With all this running around here I may have try the couch to 5K

Anne good luck on the pilates cerification

Was going to walk today and after I got home realized I need to go pick up medication at Walmart.  So off to walmart and a huge line, then needed to stop at the grocery store real quick but it was too late by then to walk.  Tomorrow I go for acupuncture so maybe Friday I can get some exercise in.

Dazednfused, thanks for that great story!! I loved hearing about that awesome lady and your good memories of radiation. I, too, have a good team and I am thankful for them.

Good news Ruth! Woot!

Whew! We went dog waking in the snow today! And then more walking in the snow after my radiation appointment to get to the bus and then more to get home. I'm tired and oddly sore all over. Time for the heated blanket.

Congratulations on the good news Ruth.  Mary I say "go for it" you've got till April to train and if you don't finish well so what who cares.  I myself have signed up for another one of those epic all day marathons with the professional trainers on March 17th.

Tonight did two hours with the wonderful Eduardo, we did Body Combat and Body Pump and I know tomorrow my muscles will be screaming, I'll be sorry when my month with him is up cause he really knows how to push you to do your best..

Ruth - congrats on the good report!  And congrats on finishing up your 5 years in August.  My 5 years is up on July 1, 2013 - and I've already told my onc that unless she can show me some VERY persuasive studies to the contrary, I'm not staying on AIs one minute after my 5 years is up! Kim - thanks for your story about the 12K, and Cheryl, thanks for the encouragement - you all might have just tipped the balance towards me signing up for the 10K.  True - I don't think I could have resisted the cake either!! (By the way, Cheryl - how about that guy just walking off BL - talk about making excuses!)   Jenn- funny about you going to McDonalds.  I'd read that sometimes after chemo, cancer patients end up with aversions to food they've consumed during chemo. So I usually did a McD splurge my first hungry day after chemo - I figured if I got an aversion to McD's, that'd be all to the good!  It seemed to have worked - we go to McD's maybe once a year now, and the only thing that looks remotely good to me are the salads (and their fries, of course - I didn't manage to acquire an aversion to those!)

35 minutes jogging on the treadmill last night.  30 minutes weights/resistance this morning, plus 15 minutes of Lebeds.

Why does Zumba intimidate me? Most anything with dance does, though. But I hear it's an amazing workout! Someone at work is doing it, and she says, "The more you wiggle, the less you'll jiggle!" Cute!

Yesterday I did my run session and then a Pilates mat class. Nice that these classes have 4 people max. Lots of personal attention. Today is my reformer lesson, then a massage! NOT a spa-type massage, but pain myofascial release type massage. I love it and dread it at the same time...

happy heart rates!!

Dear Anne, I used to do Zumba, when I lived in IN and loved it, but I got a little exuberant one day, and I was very overweight then and I fell during a dance. It was funny and everyone was so worried and I just laughed and laughed, but I was bruised. Now that I live in CA, my exercise is walking, biking and the gym!!!!!! I would like to find a Zumba class again, it was so much fun. I am sure you are doing great with it!!! Have fun!!!!! Kathy

I have my Book Club tonight. Will try to do something quick & light when I get home.

I snowshoed to my radiation appointment today - the snow in Seattle is not keeping me from getting out there!  It was actually a lot of fun and now I am tired!

It's been an intense yoga week for me - 3 90 minute hot yoga sessions so far. Tonight was very challenging, but I was so proud of myself- I was able to get into bird of paradise pose successfully since before my bmx. It is a hard pose to describe (Esther, my dear, a picture of that one in your yoga photos?) basically getting wrapped like a pretzel and standing on one leg balancing. I also got up into headstand and held it for a minute.

Planning to try to do somr cardio tomorrow!