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Laugh in the face of Arthritis Surfermom, and stop eating beef…Oh…you don’t do you…I once watched a documentary about a boy who had arthritis from birth. He attended a clinic in Harrogate (Yorkshire) and it was found that it was beef and beef products that antagonised his joints and disabled him…

I mention this because it could be something in your diet that causes the occasional pain you experience in your joints and muscles…Not beef though…:wink:

Strange, like yourself Surfermom, I got more done around the house when I worked and had less time. I even managed to fit running and other hobbies in to my busy schedule (I’ve always had a very inquiring mind). I accept that the ageing process reduces performance concerning DIY, but I think my life was better organised then to make more effective use of my limited time. Perhaps it was working to a clock that allowed me plan ahead…No clocks now, and no structured work pattern or direction…:102:

Gallery night sounds like a good night out, I like visiting art galleries ever since we got some new neighbours about six years ago and found them extremely good company. Since then we have done loads of stuff together, walks, restaurants and holidays together. Michael is an artist so Art Galleries are always high on our list of places to visit when travelling to a town or city. I’ve learnt many things in his company, but I still can’t paint…:cool:

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What a nice post, and where it matters most, you are obviously a rich man Floydy. You will come out of this well because despite the challenges of work, you seem to have a very balanced life. You’ll make that goal because as a bodybuilder, you know how set a goal out in the future and stay with program. :hug:

While OGF turned his attic into a gym and, as a result, can no longer so much as operate his remote control to watch the London Marathon, we can only hope that Mrs. Fox took a moment from picking out tiles and appliances to help our favorite marathoner find the right channel on the television. BTW, we are not to believe for a moment that OGF has left the playing field to take his place in the stands…

I wish I had! It is blowing a blue streak here, and failing to check the tides, I was batted around like a beach ball for 3.5 miles east today. While the wind was at my back for the return trip, I spent most of it dodging the progressively incoming waves that were working collaboratively to soak my running shoes and socks. I am fairly sure I could hear behind each soaking assault a cheer of victory at my expense . Being pushed along was easy, but as I squinted my way into the lowering sun, getting soggier and soggier, I finally relented and removed my shoes and socks, slogging along and dodging waves the last half mile. Do you remember the image of Bo Derek running along the beach in the movie, Ten?
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Well, I looked more like Dudley Moore with a score of two. :roll: I will just rest on my laurels that I netted seven.

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Aha! Diet, OGF! I hadn’t even considered foods that trigger inflammation. Thank you for bringing this to my dim-witted attention :roll: It is true that have been a little careless about my diet, but not so far as to eat beef…or a McDonald’s fryup :lol:.

So much for good fences making good neighbors! :lol: Seriously though, it sounds like you hit the jackpot with interesting friends whom you enjoy. It’s a good thing your friend has a passion for art instead of something like earthworms or your outings might be quite different :-D.

Thankfully there were worms at Gallery Night, but there was sensational art of all mediums, and excellent music. I am ever impressed by talent, but even more impressed with people who hone their skills in whatever they undertake. It was great fun talking to the artists and picking their brains about how they create, and it was a fine spring evening to be out walking.

It seems that don’t always have to run. :mrgreen:

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In a perfect world my neighbours would have been runners Surfermom, but hey ho, artist will have to do…:102:…Anyway, if my comeback doesn’t work out perhaps painting or fishing might might move up the list of preferred things to do…:-(…Well! perhaps not fishing…:018:

I enjoyed watching the London Marathon, in fact I’m still watching it while I write this, although the winners are on their way home, the good club runners are still coming through in around three hours. I was about thirteen minutes later, back in 1989…:-p
If I was still capable of running 26.2 miles I wouldn’t run the London. Too much fuss, and too many people, I always preferred to run the more obscure marathons with plenty of space…

When God designed the perfect marathon runner why did he make them all black…?..:surprised:…:102:

I had the best bit of the day this morning when I set off for a steady five out in the country. A beautiful spring morning saw me struggling over the first mile or two, but albeit slow, I managed to find a pace that took me home without walking and I arrived home in decent shape…:cool:…But while nestled down on the sofa eating my breakfast (It turned out to be porridge after all) and watching the race, rain patters on the window and a it looks like it’s in for the rest of the day…No big waves though…:wink:

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Well I reckon if I‘d stuck to my earlier jogging routine I might have gone the way of marathons. Years ago (around 1986) I had decided to join the RAF and so began a couple of years when I would not only cycle to work (which was a good five miles from my house) each day, but a few times per week I would jog there and back instead. This is going back some years though – thirty in fact! – but I was heavily into running everywhere before I started with the weights when I got the nod to enlist for the forces and needed to bulk up somewhat. I did, however, keep my jogging going whilst bodybuilding right up until I left the RAF though, doing the circuit around Lincoln each night…and Bob, you know how hilly it is around there! Ahh, what could have been, eh?

Great run though yourself today mate, you’re doing wonderfully again but are more cautious now after your injury.

So you’ve found a pair of dumbbells in your loft then Bob and had a little go with them? I am impressed by that mate. You will of course ache from this as you’re using muscles you don’t normally exercise. It’s all very well lifting boxes, washing and the Hoover doing Mrs. Fox’s chores, but starting on something you are not really used to and doing reps is something different. There is nothing wrong with your strength bud, it’s about practice and technique and if you installed a regular routine adding a few reps per day, you would of course have 20” guns in no time. I don’t doubt it. If I ever should take a trip to Doncaster for any reason, we’ll have an hour at your local leisure centre and I’ll put you through your paces. In return I’ll huff and puff on the treadmill for a couple of miles (or minutes?!)

Suzie – I told you that you would enjoy your night out at the gallery, and you seem to have had a very interesting evening seeing some different aspects of art. I’m pleased you went and enjoyed the evening out. You’re rolling and tumbling around in that surf though…and my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw that pic of Bo Derek – I thought it was you at first!!!

Me, well after a few sociable yesterday afternoon and trying to keep awake when I came in at around 6pm, I ate a lovely big chicken and bacon pasta dish, listened to what Mrs. Floyd had to moan about (dog next door, the Queen on telly, a driver up her ass yesterday blah blah blah) and went to bed about 8pm. Wide awake again at 10 with a banging headache I posted on here for a bit, arguing with a regular moaner like myself and went back to bed. I was up yet again at midnight wide awake – these nights are definitely no good for me – and posted some albums on my thread.
Then I slept and slept solidly right through until 9am this morning! What is going on? Breakfast was served, Mrs. Floydy went out to work and I packed for the gym at 12.

So washing done and hanging out to dry, I packed for the gym and began on my leg work. After a few reps on the sled press I lost interest totally and was back in my car driving back home after 10 minutes. Just no motivation today, but you know what? I wasn’t even bothered. Nice to chill out in fact. So Bob, I think you’ll get those arms of mine very soon if I carry on like this mate. I’ll have withered away if I don’t get a grip next week!

Take care all. :slight_smile:

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Such good reading about your history with running marathons, OGF, and your running in general, Floydy. Not so fast on hanging up your running shoes, OGF, and that five miles today was proof of that! You always make running sound as appealing as fine dining :-D, and I find myself jealous just reading about your foot work. Likewise my neighbors have all sorts of interests, but running - or surfing, for that matter - are not among them. That’s ok, though…more waves and quiet running paths for me!

And quiet it was today as I took a weekly recovery day, much like Floydy :mrgreen:. It’s a good thing too as a wide passing line of thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes that caused quite a bit of damage around here. My plants and patio furniture were knocked over in gusts, but I was more fortunate than my neighbor who went for a massage and came out to find her car windows blown out. So much for relaxation!

I did do a round of step aerobics and some yoga, and while I don’t (thankfully) have 20" biceps, I did my bit in my batwing avoidance training for the day.

It’s almost Monday everyone, so I hope the calorie burning and muscle building goes even better than planned :smiley:

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You were doing some impressive running back in the day Floydy, and I can relate to running to work and back. In my late teenage years and early twenties I wandered around different sports trying to find something I could enjoy. I was a decent cyclist and through my life have completed several long distance rides, the longest being the Coast to Coast, over two hundred and fifty miles over three days. Swimming a mile in the sea on a few occasions (my first time at twelve) but they never really clicked. I even tried lifting weights…:shock:…Trying to improve a skinny looking frame, and to stop bruisers from kicking sand in my face…:frowning:

But it was on that late summers evening back in 1978 when I jogged up the lane and collapsed against the gate of the railway crossing that something happened to me…:-p
It was like finding God!..And although bruisers still kick sand in my face…they have to catch me first…:smiley:

Sorry Floydy, but I think I’ll pass on the Gym invitation…:018:
It’s not ‘Outdoorsy’ enough for me…:cool:
Keep up the good work though…:023:

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And I haven’t forgot about you Surfermom…:hug:
I’ll deal with you later…:wink:

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I really do love this thread, we have such a camaraderie going on and it’s great to hear about all of your past and present routines you have been doing over the years. Hopefully others will look in and see that it’s not hard to exercise. It’s that initial drive of willpower to get you going and it beats slobbing about on the sofa encouraging illness any day. Although we do have time to slob around sometimes on our rest days!

I think we all have the fitness bug in our genes, we just enjoy looking after our health and that is something which is vastly important, if not the most important thing in our lives. We get aches, pains, niggles, complaints, strains and sprains, but we persevere and get through it to gallivant on our fitness adventures for another day. love it :slight_smile:

I seem to be in the middle of a quandary about my own programme to be honest. The way it is at the moment is slightly too technical, too long-winded and it’s getting difficult to keep track of all the extra bits and bobs I’ve been adding into it. The “plus reps”, the additional sets, doing certain exercises on different days etc. and I’m getting all bogged down with it to be honest.

I’ll be re-writing my template soon (when I get time!) to specify a certain routine for different days. Nothing too complicated, just something I can understand and get along with.

Today though, I had a brief session at the gym covering seven quick exercises. No point in listing everything, but I aimed for higher reps as that is the direction I must stay with in the main. My holiday is in five weeks’ time, so it’s time to tone up a little more for that. I’ll be more specific in the next few days as to what I’ve come up with!

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Floydy, I am with you about this thread.:038: I really enjoy the camaraderie on this thread. I wish I knew more runners about my age, because we face similar joys and challenges, but the reality is I am becoming a rarer bird by the moment. There are so many gems of advice and stories here that this thread never fails to inform and entertain.

On that note, you seem to be as organized with your workout routines as your music albums, which I haven’t forgotten, BTW. As a runner it is easy to track my accomplishments with my GPS watch, but what do you do to record your various workouts? Do you write them down? Use an app on your phone? When I used to go to the gym back near the dawn of man, I wrote everything on a sheet that was kept in a file. When I didn’t have it, I found myself sloppy about the weights and reps. I know OGF keeps good notes on his running. How far back do you have records, OGF?

I started my sporting career in gymnastics and competed well, but when I nearly broke my neck on a bad dismount off the balance beam :blush:, I recognized rather quickly that an early death was counterproductive to staying fit :lol:.

In the days that followed, my very active mother gently suggested that it was unlikely that I would weigh 85 pounds forever and there weren’t many forty-year-olds doing the uneven parallel bars. So, like OGF, I flitted about, trying cycling, tennis, and gym work. Running was one of the few sports I didn’t try because my coach had systematically taught us all to hate running - with the exception of the one girl in the class who always came in first.

I enjoyed going to the gym well enough, but besides the obvious problem of it being indoors (and this was decades before outdoor bootcamp classes), too many of the machines were not scaled for my being “altitudinally challenged” frame. :cry:

Funny, but I don’t remember when I started to run. I do remember going in and being properly fitted for shoes, and I think that very good decision and the expense inspired me - frivolously wasting money is most definitely not my thing. Although I am sure I huffed, puffed, bounced, and rolled my way down the paved subdivision trail in my neighborhood, in about four months my one mile outings had turned into 10Ks. There was no miracle that got me to running long distances, and while my body is anything but gazelle-like, I think not starting out trying to run too far kept me coming back. Even better, I realized that running was an excellent way to train for surfing.

Still out there and plodding along today, I felt like a hand was pressing against my forehead for a good half of the route with sustained winds at 20 mph. Having brilliantly chosen to run a beach road, I was sandblasted the entire route - somewhat like a spa treatment, only painful and without the glowing skin afterwards ;-D. On the return, I had the wind at my back enabling me to pick up the pace, but with my hair in my face the whole way, I am sure I looked like an English Sheepdog to the passing cars. Oh well, I am happy enough with a sunny five. :smiley:

How’s the kitchen coming, OGF?

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Hi Suzie.
yes, I write down my workouts on a piece of paper which has my template in table form, updated each time later at home. I find that the best method; I can’t use an app as I like my own system, my own routine and the good old-fashioned pen and paper method cannot be replaced IMO.

I have sorted out my new routine actually. I have added a Monday to the equation because one workout during the week simply is not good enough. I missed my session at the weekend and less than an hour each week will not suffice, so I’ve looked at my programme and split it into three sections - two light, easy-ish workouts during the week focussing on two sets of reps each. On Fridays I will do the big strength session, pending other duties (like last week), plus a little cardio to finish off with. Sunday’s legs session will remain unchanged.
So with four sessions per week, I think it’s do-able tbh, as I shouldn’t be too tired during the week. I’ll try to photograph my actual template and post in on here this week sometime to give you an idea. next workout Wednesday though :slight_smile:

You seem to have had a slightly struggling run today, Suzie. We all get those days, but that head wind will give you endurance qualities, so it’s good to have those sort of power routines once in a while.

Have to go now as it’s back to work :(. Last stint though and then home again. Today it’s the school run and that’s about it really. Rest day. :slight_smile:

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Morning Floydy and Surfermom, some very interesting posts you two, but as time seems to have been in short supply the last couple of days I’ve not been able to post as much as I wanted to.

My records go back to 1980 Surfermom, although my first couple of years (1978 & 1979) were still logged, distances and times are a bit sketchy. The early logs were carefully documented in a leger, but with the popularity of the computer, and some fellow runners who were pushing the boundaries of technology I transferred all my files to Bill Gates…:-D…and never looked back…:cool:

Again short of time, I’ll just describe the awful and painful traverse of this mornings five mile shuffle…Awful and painful!

Between Kitchens, Weddings and new garden walls I feel like I’ve just been thrown off a roundabout…Back soon…:shock::shock::shock:

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Floydy, your four day program sounds excellent.:023: Have you figured out what you plan to do for cardio? It’s interesting how you and OGF record your sessions. The only recording I do is via my watch and informally on a large dry erase calendar I keep in the kitchen. The downside is that once the month is over, so is the record. While my running will be in the cloud through the millennia, my surfing, step aerobics, cycling, etc. go the way of ink dust every thirty days or so. I suppose it’s because my focus how much I get done each week, and my routine is anything but :lol:

OGF, you are a good sport to do all this DIY, etc. and to make this upcoming wedding so special for the ladies in your life. I hope that despite the aches and pains of today’s run, that you are still making progress in getting back to your old routine. :hug:

Today was a repeat of yesterday - gale force winds from the west, so with strategic planning, I had the wind at my back for the second half of the run, and ran the beach at low ties… The neat thing about today’s run was that there were about six kite board surfers out. I can’t even imagine the upper body strength and coordination it must take to manage such a sport, and it’s one that has passed me by. Still, I was happy with my feet planted on terra firma to run alongside and count off another six miles.:smiley:

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Bob - You seem like you have a lot on your hands right now, but keep at it, you’re doing great. Just be cautious of your niggles bud and you’ll be fine :cool:

Suzie - It sounds like your having some severely blowy weather over there right now. Just think though - all that running against the wind will keep that stamina and endurance up to speed no end. No fun running in a storm though, it’s far too wet isn’t it?:confused:

And so the first session of my updated programme. Before I start I’ll just mention again that I’ll be doing the following workouts:

Monday:
Light reps work. Three sets, 30-40 mins, eight exercises with fixed weights. Only the reps may increase on the third set each week.

Wednesday:
Five different exercises to Monday’s session, but retaining the two new bicep/tricep rapid-fire ‘pump’ exercises, plus the mandatory ab crunches. Same time frame as Monday too and again, light but high reps over three sets.

Friday (or Saturday*):
My big strength session, just to keep my form up to scratch. That session will be up to two hours and will contain 12-15 exercises with increasingly heavier weight for each set, with up to six sets on some exercises. Those exercises will be mostly different from Mon and Wed unless I use some of the previous ones for higher weight on this day as well.

If I’m up to it, I may do a little cardio after this workout, but it’s not essential as my two earlier sessions in the week are cardio in itself but using weights instead. I just do not have the time for a separate session for cardio and doing that during work days would simply bugger me up for my shift. Plus I’m on my feet anyway all night, so it’s not essential. Sometimes I think “I wish I was retired and have more time on my hands”, but quickly retract my thoughts as I’m happy being young and youthful.

Sunday:
Legs – unchanged.

Four sessions per week is just about right and shouldn’t affect my night shift fatigue too much as I’m doing the lighter work on those days. Tuesday and Friday afternoon I have the school run, which is now fixed for me on those days, which at least makes my planning easier. Thursday is a whole afternoon off at home by myself just chilling out, and of course Saturday* is my social life, excepting when I may take a weekend off to alternate my Friday session with that day.

And so to today’s first new session of my new routine. I’d like have started this on Monday but that was a bit of an aborted attempt, so here’s where we begin…

Wedneday, 25 Apr 18: Light reps – Session Two:

Chest press:
25x40, 25x40, 15x50
*This is the machine version of the chest press. The heavier, inclined version will be done on Fridays.

Pec dec:
20x35, 20x35, 15x45

Fly dec:
25x65, 25x65, 20x72.8

Sled press:
100x100
*Included this leg exercise as I need just one quick blast for the legs during the week. I was surprised when I managed a hundred very fast reps, but it felt bloody good on the legs, even though they were like jelly climbing off the machine afterwards! :shock:

E-Z preacher curl, wide grip:
20x23, 20x23, 12x28
*The close grip version of this will be part of my strength routine on a Friday. This wide grip on the bar focuses on the outer head of the muscles, giving the biceps the ‘peak’, whereas the close grip involves the inner ‘belly’ of the biceps more. Together they form an all-round, defined shape to the muscle.

Standing triceps pump:
60x15
Standing biceps pump:
40x10
*Two brand new exercises I have added to all three of my upper body days training. Using the upright stack machine I do pulldowns or pullups, as many reps as I possibly can on a very light weight. Great for a final blast.

Ab crunch:
50x35
*Just the one set three times a week from now on.

40 mins.

Really happy with that today. I need to make some small adjustments and increase some reps but the weights are good and I think this will be a good routine.:cool:

I think it’s also good to retain a full write-up as it gives a purpose to my posts in here, so they will remain for interest and also as it works as a diary for myself to check up on my progress. I spend a lot of time on that music thread of mine, probably too much and I get agitated when I can’t keep up with it but it will wait. I can’t be getting stressed out with the thing but I’ll be glad when it’s all done to be honest! I do enjoy the thread but it does take some preparation.
Next session Friday evening where I’ll be on my new power workout.

Thanks for reading:)

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I’ve just been to my first Dancercize class, I took my 9 year old great niece along with me and while it was knackering for me it was bloody good fun!! Can’t wait for next week already. We learned a whole dance routine in one session, I’ll be competing in Just Dance before long at this rate haha

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Lion Queen, that’s just wonderful! Not only did you get fitter while having fun doing it, you modeled to your little great niece that fitness counts at any age! Do you think this could become a regular activity between you?:-D:-D

Floydy, I really like the thoughtfulness in which you have built this new routine and it intuitively makes sense building towards Friday in which you can have a long strength workout and covering all the other bases during the rest of the week. I’ll be interested to read how you feel about it after a couple of weeks. I’m with you about the accountability here. If you say it, you’re more likely to do it.

Today I ran a simple 4.5 going around the park 3 times. It’s not a terribly exciting trek, but there are always birds to see and it’s close to the house, enabling me to get home and cook a big dinner for my brother who was flying his plane in from Colorado. A nice leisurely meal and catching up put my step aerobics on a back burner, but there is always another day! At least the winds have backed off some…

Ok, forum folks, Spring is here! It really is lovely out there. Get out there (realspeed, this means out of bed, and out the door) and let us hear about what you did and what you saw…even if you walk fifty feet :-D.

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Lion Queen, that’s just wonderful! Not only did you get fitter while having fun doing it, you modeled to your little great niece that fitness counts at any age! Do you think this could become a regular activity between you?:-D:-D

Floydy, I really like the thoughtfulness in which you have built this new routine and it intuitively makes sense. Building towards Friday in which you can have a long strength workout and covering all the other bases during the rest of the week is impressive. I’ll be interested to read how you feel about it after a couple of weeks. I’m with you about the accountability here. If you say it, you’re more likely to do it.

Today I ran a simple 4.5 going around the park 3 times. It’s not a terribly exciting trek, but there are always birds to see and it’s close to the house, enabling me to get home and cook a big dinner for my brother who was flying his plane in from Colorado. A nice leisurely meal and catching up put my step aerobics on a back burner, but there is always another day! At least the winds have backed off some…

Ok, forum folks, Spring is here! It really is lovely out there. Get out there (realspeed, this means out of bed, and out the door) and let us hear about what you did and what you saw…even if you walk fifty feet :-D.

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Lion Queen - I’ll echo what Surfermom said here.
That5’s a great way to exercise, and I’m sure the youthfulness of your great niece will keep you on your toes (so to speak!) and keep you very active indeed whilst enjoying the dance moves. My wife takes our granddaughter to both ballet and ‘street dance’ classes, but I fear it’s “strictly come dancing” for the little one only there!
Well done anyway! :023:

Suzie - Nothing wrong with a little jaunt around the park for you and it certainly isn’t boring at all. people watching, bird watching and getting your steps in too. can’t be a bad thing at all. Hope the windy weather out there didn’t cause too bad a landing for your brother in his plane! :cool:

We’re just waiting on Bob now with his further adventures trotting around the countryside of sunny Doncaster.

Myself, I’ll be taking a rest day today. My training schedule feels like it’s working already - I’m full of energy now as I write and it’s 3.40am in the morning! :026:
No plans other than to chat a little on here and get some more albums in THAT thread. :035:

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I was reluctant to post today as things have not been going so well, in fact, I’ve been hanging on by the skin of my teeth. I’m feeling the same as Floydy did a couple of weeks ago when he thought he was moaning too much, this thread is supposed to encourage us to go out into the world of exercise and adventure, to climb mountains, whatever your personal mountain might be, and enjoy a better quality of life…:smiley:

It’s not about negativity and shuffling off the mortal coil…:frowning:
But you are all my friends on here and you have a right to know about Foxy’s demise…:cry:

After messing about with a few lackluster three milers, I decided to run a five miler on Sunday. It was followed by the now compulsory 200mg Ibuprofen and despite not being able to bend down even to pick up a five pound note on Monday, I decided that by hell or high water I would return to running on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays…:cool:
Not only that, they would all be five milers…:shock:

So off I go on Tuesday morning and completed the five mile route in a time Long John Silver would have been disappointed with. (A one legged Pirate in case you were wondering) A visit to the cinema and a wander around Meadowhall did not do me any favours either, although the cake was nice in M&S afterwards. And that’s another point! After managing to attach an extra half stone to my usual lean racing snake figure, after cruising round the Caribbean on a mobile restaurant, I now find that it’s impossible to shift, making running even more difficult than just a troublesome piriformis muscle is already doing…I’m beginning to look like Frank Cannon! (A fictitious overweight American detective from the seventies)…:confused:

Despite their being enough work on my now wrecked kitchen, to keep six dockers happy for the rest of the year, I kicked myself out into the wind and rain early this morning, dressed in nothing more than shorts and tee shirt and tried to loosen up this overweight, undertrained excuse for a body. It complained with every footfall, and as the rain dampened my spirit even more as it trickled down my grimacing face I actually cultivated thoughts of returning home by the shortest possible route…:cry:

But I didn’t return home, instead I pushed on into the fierce weather and completed (non stop) the five mile route, which even felt easier after a couple of miles and was rewarded with a fast (slow and ridiculous) time…:surprised:

So down goes another Ibuprofen and out comes the toolbox for an exciting day in the kitchen…not!..:069:
I do wonder though, how bad would it get if I didn’t push myself to the limits I do?
Would I weigh twenty stone and sit in front of the TV with burgers and crisps watching ‘Box Sets’ all day. Would I have achieved the things that I have over the years had I not had the drive to continue? It’s built in to my psyche, and I can’t change that…I am what I am…:102:…But it’s a struggle sometimes…

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Foxy you’re doing so well!
And yes I do agree that DRIVE is important!
It’s so much easier to sit back and spend half the day on here or whatever…I’ve just returned from my Thursday morning walking group, the 3½ miles felt easy peasy today! Nattered all the way with various bids so it was a jolly morning.
Now to tidy up before the cleaners tomorrow! :blush: