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Gave myself the every couple week two-day treat of meloxicam. It is a joy to move around with no kinks or pain. Will last around 4 days. Love it.

Treadmill 30min, elliptical 25min. Moved from machines to weights to machines. Did a bunch of everything and it seemed like I could have gone on for hours. No pain or kinks. They'll be back, but for now? All smiles.

Meloxicam? Sounds like a wonder drug. Can you send me some?

strength train this evening

warmup
squats- 3x5
bench 3x5
o press 3x5
dips 3x30
pullups 3x12
core

going to try and bag Casey Peak tomorrow (snowshoes in tow)

Cardio today, stair machine and bike intervals, 30 minutes each.

UB Yesterday, LB day before.

Shooting the bow this weekend, need to work on those muscles.

Could, but I can't. Well I can, but you need a scrip. Stuff is cheap. Ask your Doc.
I take 1/4 of a normal recommended dose. There must be something bad about it, but I don't care.

There must be something bad about it??

I need to talk to a pharmacist.

Non-steroidal;

How much does it hurt? Too much water causes hyponatremia. Which is bad. How thirsty are you?

Really it works for me and after days on end of aches and pains, I get pretty thirsty.

Long walk and weights yesterday. Really good strength workout. Power thrusts, Dead lifts, Bench press and power cleans to finish it. Always love to lift. Never liked cardio. Have to look at my maps and remind myself that I'll have to pay for any lack of cardio when I get out in the mountains, and so tonight after work I'll get on the treadmill and push through a 5 K.

Water, I can find. Is it better than ibuprofen?

A long ride on an actual bicycle can be great cardio and you get home with bugs in your teeth from so much smiling.

Google says no alcohol with meloxicam?

That hurts me just thinking about it.

Closing on my lifting goals by the end of month. Gonna be close, may extend my "deadline" a week to meet them. Then switch to more of a mix of cardio/strength. Not sure how I'm going to program them yet. Like planning a hunt, it's part of the fun.

I was getting the itch to get the bike out but we got 2+" of snow yesterday. It'll be gone by this afternoon and tomorrow looks like a good day.

For myself one 7.5mg tablet daily beats ibuprofen 400-600mg four times daily by a wide margin.

I'd hate to think of how long it would take me to peddle to work! It's a 45 minute drive on a good day.

After I cooled down from my 5K I slept well. Today I just finished walking up and down my hill for 45 minutes. Had my pack loaded with 60 lbs of sand. Did I mention I hate cardio!

I love cardio- on a bike. I find the steepest, longest climbs and I go suffer in joy. There's something about the tangible aspect of it.... "I am climbing this hill".... as opposed to being on a treadmill or whatever.

Plus the 40 mph downhills are a blast.

Cycling really helped me come back from a head injury. I was in a dark place... had been for over a year...got obsessed with cycling and at the peak I was riding 50 miles every other day for months and months. Every ride was like a click on a ratchet- one tangible notch "better", cognitively. I attribute it to the oxygen bath my brain was getting but who knows. I've scaled it back- now I go 25-35 miles but it's a more intense route and pace. 50 miles is just a long-ass time to be on a bike; the contact points (hands, feet, butt) take a beating.

I'm in a bit of shock that MTWarden is older than me and running that much. I wonder if my body could do that.

I would say yes

14 miles with 20-ish pound packs, roughly 5000' of gain- a tough one regardless of conditions, we ended up snowshoeing half of it- part of with some terrible snow (floundering sometime up to our waist!), but made it up and out

Had some good training today.

-kB swings 10x15 (one hand 32kg) 20 seconds rest between sets

-Turkish get ups x10 (32kg)
-Push ups 4x20
-pull ups 3x10
-dips 3x10

hiked a 5k loop with my old barneys frame with a 30kg sand bag strapped to it.