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4.5 mile run this morning; enjoying this level running

Yesterday: Stairmaster 30minutes

Today: Stairmaster 30minutes, Weight: Easy reps for back and arms.

What no air squats?

Yea got in 50plus. In the gym too....

Did a couple hikes with the dog this weekend, and dug up a new garden spot in the back yard by hand. Turned it over, added a bale of peat and some composted manure and then turned it over again. Should be good next spring.

Oh sh** I'm starting to sound like JeffO.

Cardio today.

9 miles on some nice hardwood forest single track- think Last of the Mohican country

another 9-ish miles away n the hardwood hills

Yesterday: Rower 30minutes.

Today: Stairmaster: Have knocked 4minutes off of my 100floor time.
Weights Back/arm evolution..finished with a 5minute cooldown on the stairmaster.

Fixing shop roof (tree strike); replacing 4 sheets plywood then on from there. Involves... work.

Ain't no Mohicans or hardwood forests in MT, where is that?

I'm visiting family in central New York, haven't visited in 25+ years. Fun seeing uncles, aunts, cousins, etc that I haven't seen in those 25 years

Funny I haven't changed at all in a 1/4 century, but everyone else sure has

Yep, I know the feeling, some of those people are getting old.......

I know a few roofers and tree cutters, work has pretty much wrecked them. Best be careful. I'd suggest exercise is better for the long haul.

Thanks. Professionals, sure. It'll wreck ya.

I'd put my physical rural lifestyle up there as a net positive, though. It's like cross-training. At least through 52 years.... knock on wood. Was in a customer's shop the other day and they had a calibrated scale. At pushing 6'-4", fully clothed, wallet & keys and phone etc, 203 lbs. So, under 200, which ain't bad at all.

Where I know for certain you are correct is in the muscle groups that get out of balance if you are just "working", like the abs. My back is strong like ox. My abs, not so much.

But to your point, carrying full sheets of OSB up a ladder onto a roof is dangerous. Period. But it's a heck of a workout! And tree work?! Shudder. Those guys are nuts. It's dangerous enough cutting trees down, I do that all the time........ from the GROUND!

At the end of the day I'm just frugal and enjoy working outside with my body. Dunno how much it'd cost to pay others to do this.... $1500? Screw THAT. I can fix it for ~$150. The rest goes in the boat fund.

Plus. I built this building, all by myself, 25 years ago... I can damn sure fix it! Had a melancholy moment earlier. I was pulling sheathing nails (to take up the busted plywood) with my old worn out framing hammer. Those were nails I put in, as a young buck, with the same damn hammer... which was new then.

Time is a trip.

Time for some fauxiprofen. If only the pharmacists knew...........

Oh, the pharmacist knows.You misspelled the remedy in that it is foxiprofen. It seems to work much better when taken in variety. Mono dosing of the same old, same old can be problematic. Sorry????

Foxiprofen is also good for adhesions.

As in..... silver fox? A variety of silver foxes? Hmmm. Wouldn't that be cougariprifen?

You may be cougariprifen, but they are marketed to a younger demographic. That train left your station. You may be able to purchase some milfaprofen, but it's going seriously dip into the boat fund.

No doubt, time is a trip....

You guys are dreamaprufen.

4x50 push-ups and sit-ups, 4x12 pull-ups

4.5 miles along the Erie Canal