Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Wonderland, love your curls!!!  Beautiful picture.   Ann, hope your shoulder is continuing to improve each day. Lilacblue, will definitely have to check out the book. Cheryl, glad to hear you are feeling better and almost back full throttle. 

Did a Tart 15 minute walk yesterday evening before going to Weight Watchers. Today was my one hour boot camp and my friend Sara actually came back for more fun . Agreed that as challenging as it can be at times, we feel so much stronger after each class. 

Happy Friday my sculpted friends. 

Mary, sounds like an interesting book. Rosie, welcome! Your strength will come back.

Two walks today, about 20 minutes hooping, and vacuumed the downstairs. I lost my dog friend today-- her family cut their vacation short by a couple days and picked her up. So the second walk I was by myself. I liked the rhythm of going out for two short walks in a day so I may see if I can keep it up.

Don't think I want to look up "whacking" - much more fun to imagine what a class for that would be like.  

Half hour Tart run this morning - saw 3 bunnies.  The little ones are coming out now - they are so precious looking!

Hard to fit in exercise this week as so busy the past 2 days, it was a 2 mile walk at sunset, and that comes after 9 PM!  I will need to do a lunchtime walk today as I have an evening meeting in Seattle. I have a hilly ride for strawberry shortcake tomorrow.  It's the real deal at the strawberry festival.

As to "when does the energy come back", I found that mine tanked at the end of AC (I did six dose dense), recovering during Taxol.  Not to my full strength, but enough so I could do long bicycle rides.  I rebounded during the first 2/3 of radiation, and then dipped.  It came back 3.5 weeks later, and was much better.  Again, not completely, but enough so that I could do the Seattle-to-Portland six weeks post rads.  I needed a lot of ibuprofen and energy potions to do long rides that summer, but I did them.  About six months post radiation, things suddenly got a lot easier, just in time for skiing season which was just glorious that Christmas.

The next big breakthrough was taking up running about 15 months ago. I am now better on hills cycling than any time during my life. I did not get out to do the difficult ski trails last winter, but suspect I am better on those as well.

As I approach the 5 year mark, I have at least as much energy as I ever did. I need naps a lot less than I did a couple of years ago. So there is long, slow recovery after you get through active treatment. I do two weekday routines, one being crunches with an exercise ball, and the other being 10 lb free weights. Boring, but effective.  I think about 10 hours of walking, running, or cycling most weeks.

Last night's walk took me back to my childhood in Vermont with the coolness, the breeze, and the scents of high summer.  The evening before was the most glorious sky. So calms my spirit as well as being good for my body. A major reason I chose to live where I moved. A great place to walk/run was high on my list.  And I got it!!!!!! - Claire

Ann - I don't think you'd be a fan of my dog, Mikey - as the DC trip ladies can verify, he does nothing but bark!  But we love him anyway. 

I worked at our local animal shelter for years and yes, we were always looking for volunteer to walk the dogs, cuddle the cats, etc. Shelter staff does their best to try to keep the animals clean and fed, but too often they just don't have enough time to walk, cuddle, and otherwise interact one on one with the animals, as much as they want to. Volunteers who do this are invaluable - quality socialization time absolutely helps keep the shelter animals from getting "kennel crazy" and developing behavioral issues related to being caged and stressed.   Or depending on your schedule, if you're looking to pick up a few extra bucks, dog walking services are always looking for new dog walkers - more and more dog owners who work all day hire someone to take their dog for a walk during the day while the owners are gone.    

Ruth - have fun tonight!

Ah Tabata. That is the Friday night boot camp drill. Not bad the first round or two but definitely taxing by the end. As for "whacking", I agree with Mary that speculation is alot more fun...

My exercise for today was 15 minutes on the bike plus 20 minutes on the Elliptical...

Happy Friday night everyone!

_Ann_ You could always get one of those invisible dog leashes from the 70's

Walked a few hills yesterday, my stomach juts out and my rear sticks out when I am doing them!! I actually started laughing at myself, thinking how funny I must look!! But , I am not as breathless as I used to be!!!  Thank you, California Dreaming Girls and the rest of you wonderful ladies here on this thread for motivating me again!! Your voices are working!!!! Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Good Morning Tarts!

Did tart stretching and tart walked 15 minutes. Will be doing some intermittent tart weed pulling today.

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday Tarts... This morning did Spin class and managed to stay the full hour and now I'm in the middle of house cleaning and I have grand intentions of doing some yard work but of course that may go by the wayside Kathy you paint a great picture 

Hello Ladies. I haven't been here in a little over a week. Haven't been getting much exercise either, but finally ran again this morning - about 2.5 miles.

While we were focusing on taking care of our dog who had hip surgery, all of a sudden a week ago today, one of our other dogs, our Vizsla, Penny, was obviously not well. We took her to a 24 hr vet and were shocked to learn that she had cancer that had metastasized to her lungs. We brought her home to love on her until Monday morning when we took her to our own vet and had her put down. We never saw this coming and are heartbroken. She had just turned nine years old last month.  We've never had a dog die this young. We thought she was the healthiest of our dogs, but recently had seemed more anxious and nervous than usual. 

Meanwhile, we had family from out of town here for a week, our single son is staying with us after oral surgery yesterday, and we've been doing doggie physical therapy three times a day with Zoe, who had the hip surgery. 

It did feel good to finally get out and run this morning and I plan to get back on track with my own exercise now.

So sorry about your dog, Annie.

Oh Annie I'm so sorry about your baby, our hearts break when they leave us, sounds like you've had your hands full, good to know you took some time for yourself today. Badger I'm going to Maleficent at 6pm tonight, one of my friends birthday and she chose that then dinner afterwards. Ruth what we'd give for some of that rain, same old same old here, sunny and warm.

Annielane, 

I am so sorry about your fur baby. It is so incredibly difficult to say good bye to them as they leave us way too soon. Sending gentle hugs..

Today's exercise was pulling weeds and leisurely swimming. 

AnnieLane, I'm so sorry to read of this difficult time and the passing of your much loved Penny.  Good for you in getting out to run and I hope your other dog makes a full and quick recovery.

Yesterday was a rest day for me and today well, a little yoga and gardening later.  I've decided to suspend running until after Tuesday as  I'm seeing a chiropractor here in Kent who specialises in the McKenzie Method to consult on my knees.  I'm keeping an open mind, yet I know these poor old knees are taking a pounding via pavement running.  The answer to that is to run on dirt, yet living with never ending rain, you also have never ending mud.  I hope this niggling knee pain can be resolved and running resumed soon.