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4 miles on the trails for Tiny E and I, nice reprieve from our recent hot weather- highs in the 50's!

Did a couple runs this week. On Wednesday I was running by a HS track and remembered an old thread where Take a Knee was (maybe jokingly?) asking about how fast I could run a mile in response to something stupid I said on here, and I ran a mile, just to see.

Anyway, I was laughing pretty hard while running in public and looking like a crazy person, so I swung into the track and cranked out a mile. 6:04, which at 42... I guess I'm pretty ok with. Ended with 8ish miles total.

First open water swim of the year tonight, and its just crazy warm.

yeah 6 minute mile is pretty darn quick!

24 mile road bike yesterday, couple good climbs, 1600' vert

7 miles and ~ 2000' of gain for Tiny E and I- glorious afternoon in the low 60's!

Glorious weather continues- low 70's, cloudy w/ a slight breeze- 4 miles and just shy of 1000' of gain for Tiny E and I; Tiny E not happy that I forgot his treats!

Did a crossfit workout named "Chelsea". Every minute on the minute for 30 minutes:

5 pull-ups
10 push-ups
15 air squats

The hardest part for me is always the air squats.

Sounds brutal, I wonder how they came up with the name. Loaded up the pack and took a 90-minute stroll last night. FIrst time in a while, always puts a strain on my hip flexors.

Got kinda derailed there for a while. Family member in the hospital for a while, pretty serious stuff, but back home now. I was 24/7 caregiver for a bit, then got back home and all sorts of stuff got in the way.

I did some pushups & crunches, etc, while I couldn't ride, hike, or hit the gym. But... Lost a lot of cardio anyway. Dang it.

Rode the "century" but... hadn't done much riding in three weeks, so when it started getting awfully warm, decided to ride the half-century instead. A mere 58 mile ride that day. One serious hill though. Up, up, up, in my bike's lowest gear, then a 46+ mph bomb down the other side! Would have likely topped 50 mph if I hadn't tapped the brakes a bit when an oncoming car showed up...

And since then cranked out an easy-paced 35 mile ride. So, settling back into it. Not sure I'm going to attempt another 100 mile ride this summer. MAYBE if we get a cool spell. I don't ride real strong in the heat. Get me an overcast day in the 60's? You bet! Sunny and 90? No thanks.

Good to see that everyone is cruising along with their workouts. We all ought to be in decent shape when the fall seasons roll in.

Guy

glad things are better w/ the family

the "teats workout" Mt Helena repeat, 4-ish miles over 2000' of gain for Tiny E and I- ouch!

It was named to help make it memorable so the instructor would only need to explain once.

Ran the steps on Old Main Hill today, 17 laps on a nice sunny afternoon with a breeze. Quads were sore from the squats yesterday and are worse tonight.

4 miles of heat training (much to our chagrin!) on the trails for Tiny E and I- I think he may actually hate it more than me

Pretty good lower body workout yesterday. Started out with a warm-up on the bike, then a super set of back squats/box jumps, and then single leg hamstring curls, quad raises, calf raises, glute bridge machine, ad leg press machine. Did a bunch of leg lifts somewjhere in the middle.

Been so busy working on getting our house ready to put on the market, that my workout regime has been thrown out of whack. Ran 2 miles on Tuesday, and hiked 4 miles this morning with a 30 pound pack.

ran a marathon sunday. survived...

Nice!

thumbs up

5 miles on the trails w/ Tiny E, 1300' of gain, in the mid 80's BUT a little cloud cover made it feel better than yesterday!

5 miles up, down and around on old main hill with 1400' of gain. Humidity was up around 50% which felt like a swamp to this desert rat.

did six rounds of 24 walking lunges, 24 air squats and 24 pushups; if it looks familiar it's Laredo w/o the running- by hook or by crook, I'm doing the full workout this month!