Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Claire - your pictures look cool and lovely. Ginger - the river tubing sounds perfect in this heat.

We had wild storms again last night, but by this morning it was warm and humid and I just couldn't make myself get out for a run. So I have my workout clothes at work and I'll head to the gym to hit the dreadmill.

Speaking of dreadmills, I have a friend who retired this spring, and is in training to do the 500-mile Camino pilgrimage trail through Spain, starting next month. For months, she's been hiking and walking miles every day to train. But like the rest of us this crazy hot spell has really gotten to her the last few days, so she's been hitting the dreadmill. Part of training is learning to carry the 18 pound backpack that she'll be carrying on the trek. So there she is, in the gym, walking the treadmill with a full backpack. As she said, "I've been getting some strange looks at the gym this week. Doesn't everyone need a full backpack to use a treadmill?"

Great pictures Claire!

Welcome Logang!

Pilates today Rads arm really sore since golfing adventure last week. Did not have any nodes involved but part of armpit in line of fire. Hope it settles down soon! Hard to figure what's causing it want to give it a bit of time before going to Dr. Anyone have this soon after rads

Be careful with the arm, PlanB. If it is hurting, back off a little.

POUND in the morning & Barre tonight. Does spinning in circles count for anything? 'Cause that's what I did for the rest of the day!

Did my usual hike this morning. It's been raining here for the past few days, but fortunately the weather is behaving itself in the early a.m.

Ruth, If spinning in circles were an Olympic sport, I would be a gold medalist.

A couple of pics I took about a month ago on one of my hikes.

Nice pictures, hsant!

Since school starts next week, we retired teachers invited some of our still teaching friends to come walk, talk, and breakfast with us. As you can see, we had a fun morning. Tomorrow DH & I are going on a four day weekend to a 'Cajun Fest' in Minnesota....... leaving the house in disarray. DH is so unhappy with the work done by the carpenter (the cabinets slope downwards), and distrusts his work so much, that he and a friend are going to take them down & reinstall them themselves. The carpenter is going to have to come back & redo the crown molding (whether we trust him or not, because they can't do it......after the new special order crown modeling, which the carpenter is paying for, comes in).......sigh.......the joys of remodeling!

ruth, I'm so sorry for you. You are doing your best to treat the kitchen episode lightly but that is a bucketload of stress, especially when you know the carpenter personally. If you and your husband are anything like us, you've probably talked about this and planned for ages. It is so annoying and disappointing. It will, of course, come right in the end. A break away is just the ticket.

Hsant, i laughed about your dad's remote controls,especially because you got both of them. My dad lived with us for a while. He was very particular that his pristine white underwear was washed separately. You guessed. A rogue red tshirt lurking. Lovely pink man pants.

Oh Ruth, that's rotten about your cabinets! Hope MN is a nice break. Love the pic of the teachers.

Had a really frustrating day. Started out with rain so couldn't walk, tho I'm grateful for the rain. Newspaper didn't come until after I'd left for work. Hectic day with a rush assignment, lots of interruptions, and a cranky new computer system. Fled the building 30 mins early as had worked through lunch, and de-stressed with a nice long walk listening to Joe Satriani when I got home.

hsant, beautiful pix.

40 minute walk with 1\2 mile 'run' in the middle this morning before work

Took aambien already so getting loopy

Nite all

ruthbru, bummer about your cabinets. Sometimes it is just easier to not mix friends and business. You expect a friend to take extra care. Great pics hsant.

Yesterday led my Leslie Sansone group with a 5-mile walk. At least that's inside as outside humidity here is crazy. But, humidity or not still went out with 9 other brave souls and played an hour of pickleball at 7pm tonight. We could probably fill a child sized pool with our sweat but it's so much fun.

Night sculpted friends.

I'm here Wonderland, love love love your before and after pictures. We have had visitors from the UK for the past week, so I've been going from work to the gym then out to various and sundry restaurants, then we had my Hannah's bridal shower on Saturday so my plate has been FULL, I'd say I'm getting back to normal but I'm flying to Boston tomorrow night just for the weekend

Aww Ruth so sorry about your cabinets, breathe and enjoy your weekend away, great turnout for the WWW group.

Beautiful pictures hsant, what a lovely place to walk.

TH if you'd like to bring your OCD cleaning persona to my place I'd welcome you with open arms

Hey Sweet, good to see you.

I have kept up with my exercise while our visitors were here, I've been Body Pumping, Spinning, Body Combatting and dancing - I've then negated every ounce of exercise by eating out, thank goodness they've gone home but they'll be back in December for the wedding.

Welcome Kaption and Logang.

Thanks for the Fitzgerald quote Ruth!!

You are all amazing!

Better day today! Accomplished a lot but it was nicely paced with a morning walk and a 7th inning stretch.

Someone asked about pickleball. It's a racquet sport that's a cross between badminton, tennis, and ping-pong. Played with a paddle on a court or in the yard, it's for all ages and sounds like fun.

Pilates and painting today. Thanks for the advice about the arm. I am backing off a bit on planks and such to see if it helps.

Ruth so frustrating on your kitchen! Sounds like a good time for a break enjoy it.

Hsant wonderful pictures!

Twohobbies I feel the same way where did the summer go? It's not like it hasn't been hot enough but the time just sort of evaporated! I love the cool crisp of fall but not what comes next

Ruth - hope you're having a wonderful trip. Still trying to wrap my head around Minnesota's very Nordic population doing Zydeco dancing at a CajunFest! Heidi - sounds like a fun trip to NYC - there's always a lot of walking there. Claire - cycling and wine tasting - my kind of outing! Karen - our mornings are still in the 70's, but hoping for the 60's soon.

Back to the dreadmill for a run last night - and yes, Scottie - I had my fan going! Thanks for the tip about it fitting nicely into the water bottle holder - so much better than trying to clip it onto the frame somehowl

Had early morning meeting so planned on exercising in pool afterwards but then saw a Butterfly Gardening club was meeting today so we went for that. Thought they would give us ideas on what plants/flowers to raise to attract butterflies but it turned out to be more information on raising and maintaining caterpillars. I'm bug phobic (I know, I know, they turn into beautiful butterflies) and when they went on and on and on and got into how wasps and gecko's eat the baby caterpillars and then how to clean up caterpillar poop well we had enough and walked out. Guess butterfly gardening is not in our future. (it also was way too much work!)

Oh well, will go to the square and do some dancing instead for my exercise today.

Night sculpted friends.