Evening Bob, have you had a good day today? 
Hope the calories are burning, the muscles building, and the joints flexing today. While I would love to wax lyrical about my run today, I’ve yet to finish straightening up after a small dinner party. And though probably looked like a farmer after the bulls ran through at the table, it was worth squeezing in a soggy, muddy, quick four somewhere between the market and the hors d’ oeuvres.
I think I am still out of breath.
Tomorrow promises a no pressure outing! Yay!
Sorry Floydy, was out all day celebrating daughters 46th birthday and got home late…Just settling down for an evening with ‘Coronation Street’ ‘Get me out of here’ and the forum when some friends came round…I thought they were never going to go…
I had a bit of a race on my hands this morning. Got to about three and a half miles of my Tuesday Five when I noticed two runners behind me…:shock:
I wasn’t having the best run of my life and thought I’d let them pass, but they didn’t seem to be closing on me. If they want to pass I decided, they will have to work for it and I upped the pace (slowly, so they wouldn’t notice it) …
If there’s one thing I’ve been proud of over the years, it’s been my fell running over rough surfaces and we were on the lane now…
I could hear their voices and the sound of their feet pounding the lane, they were catching me…:shock: Again I eased up the pace and leaped and swerved round bulging puddles. I held my nerve until I no longer heard their voices and finally reached the railway crossing gates.
A quick glance back and a smug grin lightened my face, they were quite a long way behind now and as I skipped across the railway line and through the opposite gate I pushed hard for home on the last quarter mile and never saw or heard them again…
A bit harder run than I intended and I’m knackered now, but I will die happy…
With Surfermom racing against time to fit all her chores in AND managing to fit in a run, plus Bob throwing up the proverbial two fingers at a couple of runners half his age, there’s just no stopping you two is there?! Well done both! 
Ciderman - are you still using your dog as a pillow? 
I did a final high rep session for about an hour this evening, shelving the planned cardio because I forgot my towel!
No matter, that’s it now until 1st January as tomorrow I have a house full of tradesmen doing electrics and joinery work, so can’t make it to the gym. On Thursday it’s Hernia Part 2.
I’ll be popping in folks. Keep on running!
Walking at least 45 minutes and doing 28 minutes of yoga each day.
Good work, Bratti
Well done, Bratti! I know you are always out there doing something interesting in that beautiful landscape.
Floydy, the very best of wishes for you tomorrow. This time tomorrow you will be sleeping soundly and all of this will be behind you. Speedy recovery!
Forecasted rain never materialized today, so I was able to squeeze in a surprise run! My pace is down this week. I expect a little cold air due in this week will inspire me to get moving. 5.25 miles. Good enough :-D.
Thanks Surfermom 
All the best for today Floydy…
I set a new personal worst this morning for my five miler.
Felt alright and enjoyed the run but the time was atrocious.
Just the odd spot of rain but not heavy enough to warrant the waterproof top, which was just as well really because it turned out to be on the warm side. So despite my best attempts to rekindle some of the old fire in my legs I must, for now, be content just to go out for the fresh air…
Now here I was, thinking I was about to read about OGF’s personal best, only to arrive at the word “worst” and have my illusions pop like a balloon. 
No matter, OGF, we have to have the bad days so we can feel so much better on the good. Any day out there is better than any day in there, so you have indeed managed that one small victory. I can’t say that I can compare my outing to any of my better records, but I will blame that on some nasty headwinds.
Tomorrow is another day!
Fear not Surfermom, I presented myself out into a cold (2*C but not frosty) clear morning and ran out of my socks… Although not a best time, you would have to go back to October 8th this year to find one better…Just something strange happened and the muscles kept churning out the miles without getting tired.
Was it something I ate that provided this surge of speed, or was it something that I have been eating that is bad and doing me no good and preventing one…
I guess I’ll never know, if I did, all my runs would be best times…
And like you say Surfermom, if you don’t ever have a slow run, how would you know when you are having a fast one…
edit:- I was going to put “If you don’t ever have a bad run” but I realised that no run is a bad run, they’re just slower… I’m sure you get the idea…
Thanks you guys. I wish I could post more often. Maybe I will from now on.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Walked 3 miles along the river bank this morning - a bit dark and gloomy - not much wildlife about - not many tame humans around either. Well … it was only 5:0am.
Am still doing the daily flexibility/stamina exercises from the diabetes prevention programme - still 20 repeats of each. Not planning on increasing the repeats. Sufficient unto the day - and all that jazz.
ST, I am thrilled you are staying with it! That’s a very respectable distance! You are wise to hold on your reps for a while. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when starting a new regimen is to do too much too fast, which can leave you sore, tired, and unhappy. 20 is just fine!
OGF, I knew you would be burning down the barn once again, but I didn’t expect it so quickly. I too am noticing that the hills on my pace calendar are starting to look like a bit of a roller coaster. No matter; the only race I am in is the one against myself.
It’s still warm here, so I have one more season before driving to KS tomorrow. It’s going to be an insanely busy three weeks before Christmas, but it all happens after I get that daily run completed. Ho ho ho!
Just popping in as I do from time to time. Nice to see the thread is ticking over okay with a couple of extra mentions from Tabs and Bratti too keep up the good work all 
Tachyon - everything okay with you bud. Please give us a heads up on that if you can mate
After just over a week since my second and final operation, and feeling particularly groggy in the first few days, I have recovered quite rapidly all of a sudden. I have a few little twinges and niggles mostly from the incisions on my stomach this time but everything is healing up nicely.
I have been adding touches to a revised training regime that will see me back keeping fit and losing the rather alarming belly expansion that I have accumulated from lack of exercise sooner than I thought. Even though my diet has been pretty good, it still piles on the weight sitting around through being unable to be as active as normal.
So with that in mind, I’m giving it one more week of rest before I plan to get myself back into some kind of routine once more.
I have a weekly plan drawn up which should hopefully comprise the following:
2 outdoor jogging - one field, one pavement.
1 cardio (treadmill/bike)
2 light-ish weights (high reps/tension) - 1 upper body, 1 legs
That is my goal, although I may not fit them all into one week to begin with. It may run over 8-9 days or thereabouts until I see my fitness coming back.
I intend to provisionally start this with some gym cardio and weights next week followed by my first outdoors running a week later, interspersed with the other routines. After that, i.e. my third week I should be performing the five sessions Mon-Sun, depending on other plans and work (when I get back). That’s the plan anyway.
I know I’m unfit. Since April when I developed Polymyalgia Rheumatica my fitness has gone down the drain.
Now I’m on steroids and the pain is under control I know I have to do something.
I already go to the gym with my friend but we only do the lightweight stuff - mostly the rowing machine as we can sit down & natter while we row.
I also go to a fitness class for over 50’s but it hardly raises the heart rate.
With this in mind I’ve added my own exercise - 4 times a week I do a circular walk from my house which takes about 40 minutes. It includes walking up a massive hill and that hill is more exercise than everything else I do put together.
I have to stop twice on the hill for a breather and my aim is to walk up it without stopping. Then I’ll know my fitness has improved.
I like to think it’s not too late to gain a bit of fitness back…
Hi Carol.
That’s the spirit, gal! 
You are exercising whatever the level. You are doing a hell of a lot more exercise than many millions of other people whatever their age, who simply lounge around, pile weight on and become a burden for the NHS. You should be proud of your achievements and it’s great we see you in this thread (that so many dismiss as “being boring” then talk all the time of their cooking pies and baking) to note your daily exercise.
I think you are doing extremely well, especially as you have to cope with a painful injury too. Long may you run! (or walk) 
Floydy, instead of running down people on here and others who don’t do a lot of exercise, please take into consideration their age and their general health. Being debilitated yourself for a couple of months, you should realise what it is like. Fortunately you have recovered but others are not so lucky.