Let's Post our Daily Exercise

I have been following the PAs advice and doing my stretches twice a day. I am also wearing orthotics and they help a lot.

Yesterday was yoga, a walk & a couple hours of yard work. Today I need to get 45 minutes of some type of aerobics in to round out the week.

Happy Mothers Day to all moms, aunts, mentors of young people, and those who offer motherly care to others regardless of age!!

I slept in this morning after doing yesterday's Metric Century. Was sunny for the second half, but the spectacular views for the first half were obscured by light rain and mist. Feel only a bit sore, and was fine doing the ride despite relatively little time in the saddle this year. (One thing that helped was opting for my old ratty cycling tights which are much more comfortable for long hours of "sitting down" than my new, fashionable ones)

This is great news because yesterday's ride was relatively difficult and I am now confident that I will be just fine for the Seattle-to-Portland which is in two months. I do need to ramp up the training, but I am already at a good fitness level.

I will be making Ragu Bolognese with the fancy mushrooms I bought in a farm stand/gourmet shop on the way back. I also need to plant my fresh herbs. This means that my little garden is about 70% finished.

One more week of the ordeal, and life will be relatively normal once again. I can't wait to have a bit more free time. Two nonprofit events this coming week (3, if you count the dinner) and I do a lot of the back end work. Can't wait to be on the other side of all this. Not to mention doing a spot of Vineyard Camping.

Happy Mother's Day everyone! - Claire

Hope all of you wonderful women had a terrific Sunday.

This morning was Pink Ribbon Pilates and one of our members, The Fabulous Sian (raised £1300+ for breast cancer research) wore the outfit she wore for Moonwalk London that was this past Saturday night: http://walkthewalk.org/challenges/the-moonwalk-london-2017/ :

Have a good start to the week everyone!

Pat, Google "batwing arms" on utube, there are some good, short exercises for that problem area (which I should be doing more religiously now that it's sleeveless weather!).I am subbing for the librarian today and am on a little break right now. How much fun is that for a bookie like myself! I'll walk after school and go to yoga tonight. Fun picture, Lilac!

Hope all the moms had a great Mother's Day!

Cute picture, Lilac! She's really rockin' the pink.

Pat - so glad your hubby made it home safely. I bet he was tired. I had several Chinese co-workers who used to travel home occasionally, and everyone said what a long, frazzling trip that is. I just did the winter-to-summer clothing switch today too.

More Garden N Sculpt this weekend - I think we have most of the heavy stuff done. We had an area approximately 40' x 100' that had become totally overgrown with nasty brambles, underbrush, saplings, mile-a-minute vine, etc. It was completely impassable. Last month, we finally had a contractor clear it, grade it, and apply topsoil and mulch. Since we're on a mountaintop, the soil is quite rocky and boulder-y. When grading it, the contractor pulled out a lot of rocks and boulders, so we had him place them around to make little rock garden areas. We also had some slate that he cut and used to make a winding path down to the bottom of the hill (our little tribute to Lombard Street in San Francisco). Now that it's been cleared, we've been planting it like crazy with perennials.

Here's the before:

And here's the after (thus far)

A little different, no?

Here's a close up of the chair area, looking back up the hill towards the cabin. That's the cabin at the top left of the picture. We plan to spend a lot of evenings sitting out there enjoying Mother Nature!

We still want to plant some flowering trees, but digging holes in rocky/boulder-y soil is quite a project. A pry bar is an absolutely necessary part of gardening equipment. It may take us a few weeks to get holes big enough to plant a couple of small trees.

With all this gardening, my shoulder has definitely been getting a workout. I have most of my strength back, but still working on ROM with the PT.

Strength/flexibility class today. It's a nice weekly checkpoint to gauge my progress.

How nice, Natsfan! That will be a lovely place to contemplate and relax. It reminds me of those meditation gardens you walk in.

Lilac cute pic. Pat I am glad your husband found his way back. What was he doing in Nepal?

Butterfly be vigilant and I dont think you will gain weight. I have been able to maintain my weight overall. I gained about four pounds last August and then it took me a few months to lose that but now I am back to where I started. It had nothing to do with the meds and everything to do with ice cream.

Saturday I shopped for two hours. My feet hurt enough to call that exercise. Today was lawn mowing for 45 minutes. Sunday was a nature hike with my family. unfortunately I may have lost all my pictures except this one.

But we did have a beautiful day.

Got out for a three mile run.

Here's the scenery around here:

Great scenery, TH and Ruth. Nats, what a lot of work. Very impressive and beautiful.

Butterfly, I was able to lose some weight on Femara but it was hard work. It's also hard work to maintain on Tamoxifen although a study with mice fed a high-fat diet just came out showing that Tamoxifen prevented weight gain and mice were less likely to develop glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and deposits of fat in the liver.

Happy Anniversary, scottiemom.

Sweaty Body Jam last night and salsa tonight.

I did a Denise Austin DVD called Body Burn, which had a dance & two pilates sections, also did some fun hip hop dances online with Marshall Fitness. Now I am off to get a tire changed & do some other errands. We are having a rainy day here.

spin class every other day for 2 weeks now - I'm getting better each session! Feels sooo good to be drenched in sweat from a workout instead of medicine induced night sweats!!

Love seeing all the pictures. Lots of work NatsFan, take your time and don't overdo. Walk Away the Pounds tonight. Did 3 miles out of the total 5 others did. Did 90 minutes of pickleball yesterday. Knee okay but probably need to wrap it for awhile for all the weight bearing activities. Water Volleyball tomorrow.

Night sculpted friends.

Sitting in the cardiologist's waiting room for an echocardiogram and Ekg. Since the left breast was radiated they're checking to see that there was no heart damage. This was ordered by my PS in prep for my DIEP on 5/30. We will see if yoga and running has had any impact on the good ol ticker.