[silverbirch]

KC - look, it's fine. No worries. And certainly no penance required. You're here and it's very good to see you.

My exercise has been pretty abysmal but today I walked 6 miles or so along a canal, over an aqueduct and back along the river. It felt good.

The DB is back at school on Thursday so, despite pressure of work, I'll be back at the gymn.

[saef]

Kitty, the antique show was in deepest darkest Upstate NY, at a village called Bouckville. (It's near Hamilton, which is home of Colgate U.)

There'll be other runs. You poor thing, Kitty, you weren't contractually obligated to do a 10k just because you wrote it here. (But I know it feels like that -- I feel like that, too, that it's binding & I can only crawl back here in deepest shame if I haven't done what I said I'd do.)

I'm happy you planted in my mind the image of a little four-year-old scrambling up a rock face. You're raising a little mountain goat. Good for him.

[saef]

Aug. 30: 60 minutes arc trainer, resistance at eight, hill intervals, with a distractingly handsome guy on my left. I watched James Cramer's "Mad Money" on the TV monitor, to show him I am a Serious Person. Really I was longing for something featuring a crazy-eyed New Jersey housewife or a chef who steals another chef's pea puree in a cooking competition. James Cramer gives investment advice like his audience is composed of idiots.

40 minutes Pilates routine, sharing that exercise studio with a striking couple: a tall, thin woman with bobbed black hair & a distinctive hawk nose, and a short, very muscular man with long dreadlocks, wound through with beads & tied back into a pony tail. That hairstyle must have cost him a fortune to create. They made out after exercising together, never mind me on my mat a few feet away from them. They looked like they live in Brooklyn, not in my stuffy Westchester village. I just kept thinking "chin to chest, eyes on abs" while doing my exercises.

[saef]

Aug. 31: 15 minutes rowing, resistance at 6, on Concept II rower
45 minutes weights

45 minutes spin class in the evening

Getting in my gym time before my travels.

[4rabbit]

KC - I second birch & saef...no shame in planning a 10 k and giving it up for what seems to me important family time. great visual of you & the 4 yr old. There will be more 10 k's tocome, but the 4 yr old will not be 4 yrs all that long.

Birch - DB back to school on thursday? DD will start on friday.

I did do the 1 hr yoga yesterday, 30th of august, and today I did 20 mins treadmill & 45 mins yoga. I am extremely stiff but I can already feeling some increase in flexibility. BTW I use the "random yoga" function on the nintendo DS "lets yoga" game, and I find it excellent. You can type in the time you have availalbe, your yoga level (lowest in my case), and a focus for the session (flexibility in my case) and it will take you through the workout.

I have a work related coaching training tomorrow & thursday, so no wo then.

hope to see you around friday,
happy workouts,
rabbit

[thesame7lbs]

August 31
Closed out the month with a slow, easy run
4.75 miles
57 minutes

Included a couple stops: one to buckle in DS, who stayed put for more than a mile even though he wasn't secured and one to check in with DD's piano teacher.

Saef, they should do a reality show about your gym! Pilates wars, Pilates lovin'... Make Pilates Love Not War...

[traveling michele]

Originally Posted by traveling michele

August 16: 65 minutes boxing boot camp
August 17: 60 minutes elliptical
August 18: 60 minutes spin class
August 19: 60 minutes hip hop class

Totals for August:
15 days
973 minutes

August 20: 30 minutes running
August 21: 30 minutes elliptical, 30 minute walk, 15 min. weights (75 min)
August 22: 45 minutes elliptical
August 23: 60 minutes boxing boot camp
August 24: 60 minutes elliptical
August 25: 15 min. weights, 60 minutes spin (75 min)
August 26: 60 min. hip hop
August 27: 30 min. running
August 28: 90 minutes boot camp
August 29: 35 minutes elliptical
August 30: 60 minutes body pump class (weightlifting)
August 31: 42 minutes running

Totals:
27 days
1635 minutes