cinderelly
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Good morning you - well for me adn I guess good night for you - I hope you rest well hun 
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felici
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Hi. Thanks for the encouragement Cerella, SS and Lena.
The 45 minute walk was the distance I am aiming at for my regular walks for now. I need to recheck the distance but I think it's 4.3 km or 2.6 miles. The route used to be my standard, but now that it gets dark earlier, I have a bit more trouble fitting it all in, just due to not getting out early enough. The walk every day thing doesn't sound that hard and I believe it's doable but it will take a while really happen the way I want. I'm rather surprised I didn't just do it every single day last week as I didn't have to go to work, but I guess there's an issue of trying to get my mindset right.
The 45 minute walk was the distance I am aiming at for my regular walks for now. I need to recheck the distance but I think it's 4.3 km or 2.6 miles. The route used to be my standard, but now that it gets dark earlier, I have a bit more trouble fitting it all in, just due to not getting out early enough. The walk every day thing doesn't sound that hard and I believe it's doable but it will take a while really happen the way I want. I'm rather surprised I didn't just do it every single day last week as I didn't have to go to work, but I guess there's an issue of trying to get my mindset right.
felici
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Sunday
Breakfast 12:150 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.
More coffee.
4:20 Pink Lady apple.
Dinner: 6:45 Stirfried Satay Chicken with Capsicum. As served by my husband. I think the amount of chicken would have been fine, also the capsicum, bamboo shoots, onion and probably about my normal amount of basmati rice. As for the peanut paste he used in the sauce... less said... Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C green tea.
But I had slept in so long that it turned out to be an odd day food wise. It seemed to me that I was unusually hungry after dinner. So:
8:30 15 almonds. Bowl of sultana bran and soya milk.
Then I felt fine!
Exercise: 4:40 1hr 40 min. Walk to Carine, around reserve, and back. 9-9.5 km (~ 6 miles).
I could measure the kms a bit more precisely once I was there and got these speeds.
1st km, walking at the pace I felt like, which happened to be fairly quick. 11 min.
2nd, deliberately sped up to try and breathe a bit faster: 9min 47.
3rd, tried to occasionally push to the level I'd use for a sprint ie as fast as I can go without jogging – but I can't even concentrate enough to do that for a whole km. I doubt if I could keep it up anyhow. I certainly wasn't doing a sprint speed because that leaves me feeling like I can't move and this didn't. 8min 56.
Yay! Finally I did something a little more strenuous again.
Breakfast 12:150 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.
More coffee.
4:20 Pink Lady apple.
Dinner: 6:45 Stirfried Satay Chicken with Capsicum. As served by my husband. I think the amount of chicken would have been fine, also the capsicum, bamboo shoots, onion and probably about my normal amount of basmati rice. As for the peanut paste he used in the sauce... less said...
Tub of diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C green tea.But I had slept in so long that it turned out to be an odd day food wise. It seemed to me that I was unusually hungry after dinner. So:
8:30 15 almonds. Bowl of sultana bran and soya milk.
Then I felt fine!
Exercise: 4:40 1hr 40 min. Walk to Carine, around reserve, and back. 9-9.5 km (~ 6 miles).
I could measure the kms a bit more precisely once I was there and got these speeds.
1st km, walking at the pace I felt like, which happened to be fairly quick. 11 min.
2nd, deliberately sped up to try and breathe a bit faster: 9min 47.
3rd, tried to occasionally push to the level I'd use for a sprint ie as fast as I can go without jogging – but I can't even concentrate enough to do that for a whole km. I doubt if I could keep it up anyhow. I certainly wasn't doing a sprint speed because that leaves me feeling like I can't move and this didn't. 8min 56.
Yay! Finally I did something a little more strenuous again.
SexyPiscesBabe
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Thanks for the support, I wish walking was easier lolol.. Hagd hun
felici
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I did, and I found that having increased things a bit and recorded some numbers made me eager for next time.
No worries. Personally I'm trying to just make sure there is some walking happening for me, but definitely intend to adjust my expectations about how strenuous it is, based on what else is happening.
I agree. The times of push are more exciting and help keep this whole process motivating I think.
Monday
Breakfast 12:150 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.
Lunch: Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lowfat hard cheese, and tomato.
~ 4:00 Tub diet apricot yoghurt.
Dinner: 7:30 Vegetables and gravy. Mashed potato (½ C), broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, 1/3 C instant gravy. ½ corn cob. 2-3 Handfuls of snow peas. A rather disorganized evening - the food was yummy, but not sustaining. Therefore I followed the veges with too many almonds. No counting! Not a good sign. 1 C green tea.
Exercise: 5:25 Standard local walk.
be_gone_soon
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I just wanted to drop in and say Hi!. Your not a good sign made me smile! Hang in there!!
Cannon 2006
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That's about my walking speed too, 45 minutes for 2.6 miles. I really am glad to see you doing so well with the exercise.
felici
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Thank you, Cannon. I do value your comments and support.
That seems to be my natural speed now when I'm making an average effort. It's consistent with my natural walk speed on the weekend when I wasn't pushing it, to a time I bothered to record a few weeks ago in my diary, to today! Even though I had slow patches and fast patches today, it evened out to the same thing.
That seems to be my natural speed now when I'm making an average effort. It's consistent with my natural walk speed on the weekend when I wasn't pushing it, to a time I bothered to record a few weeks ago in my diary, to today! Even though I had slow patches and fast patches today, it evened out to the same thing.
felici
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Breakfast 12:150 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with plum and cinnamon jam. Boiled egg. 2 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo milk.
Lunch 1:00: Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lowfat hard cheese. Coffee with milk.
Snack 3:30 Snow peas
Dinner: 7:15 125 gm grilled veal. Ratatouille: capsicum, celery, onion, garlic, black olives, ~ 2 tspns EVO olive oil. ~ 10-12 gm lowfathardcheese. 100 gm potato, ½ C broad beans with a smear of margarine, lots of broccoli.
Snack: 9:301 diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C green tea.
Exercise: 2:05 35-40 minutes, stair climbing at the DNA tower.
5:25 Local walk. 45.5 minutes 4.3 km (2.6 miles)
This was my first stair climbing since May, and my first truly intense exercise in quite a while (Wow I guessed 3-4 weeks – but looked back in my diary and see it has been much more. At least 6.). I realized yesterday that today might give me this opportunity and I was looking forward to it.
For the stairs, I did a couple of stretches, then started walking up at an easy pace. I remember dying before the top on the first set once before, when I misjudged the distance, and I didn't want that. Despite the gentle pace, half way up the first set of steps I was wondering why I had looked forward to it. It actually felt very unpleasant and I was thinking that to look forward to it, I must have remembered some sort of previous afterglow or feeling of virtue, rather than the actual stair climbing. However I didn't get any real fade in my legs until about the fourth set. Then I managed 3-4 sets where I actually felt like running until half way. The first of those was a run til half way then a real lactic acid thing starting at ¾. From then on, whether running half way or not, they were all killer lactic acid legs from half way onwards. On the last set they were legs that felt like they hardly could finish. Despite that, I would have done another set at the end, if I'd had a different number in mind, and if I hadn't needed to get the girl home. I still had legs enough for the beginning of another climb – even if maybe the end would have been dodgy!! Frankly though, I was glad to have a reason to leave!!
Despite all that, somewhere in the middle of it all I was noticing that I was puffing and sweaty and focussed and taking great lungfuls of air and actually enjoying the walks down at least (despite the jelly legs that come with walking down), and enjoying the sensation of having pushed myself. The scenery at the top is good too. 360 degree views - to the city and hills one way, to the coast and Rottnest Island the other. Fortunately, though there were a few tourists, there was no one who actually made me have to stop and restart on the way up, which is a total killer. However, I probably should have had more of a cool down – I just drove straight home, then hobbled inside!
I finally found out how to use the stopwatch on my phone properly, so I'd like to record my times. I was able to check my diary today for a rough idea of what I was doing before and I think I am just as fast as I was which was a pleasant surprise. However, I used to have trouble using the stopwatch so don't have much to compare it to. I don't know what it is about timing these things, but I somehow find it motivating – helping me feel as though I'm achieving something, and giving me a measure of whether I'm improving. Today I was just hoping to find that I hadn't lost too much of my previous gains while I'd been taking it easy. Disclaimer: Maybe the stairs today would have been harder but I had had a muscle spasm in one hip for a couple of days so took 2 ibuprofen before I left home.
10 sets. 1:08 2:15, 1:00 1:38, 1:00 2:17, 1:03 2:15, 0:55 2:11, 0:56 3:20, 0:56 2:22, 1:11 3:06, 1:17 ?, ? ?.
Standard local walk. I realized this is not the same as a couple of my older “standard local walks”, cos I kept extending them. Also I did sometimes do this particular standard local walk and add bits on to try and get an hour's worth. Today was the stock standard with the loop up towards Warwick, the wiggle at the local park, the loop up to the top of the hill, and once around the oval!! Anyway I have checked the length and am now confident it is correct. Today it took 45.5 minutes, including the time it took me to stop and pay the lawnmower guy, and say hi to the gasmeter reader! It wasn't all walking though because my thighs were soooo stiff, that I really felt like jogging a fair bit during the first part of the walk. And I did. And then I thought I'd stirred up my heel spur! I oughtn't complain. The knees have been good and the ankle has become a specific issue which I can mostly avoid by not twisting. Actually that whole 6 miles on Sunday was without knee grief. And by now the ibuprofen at lunch must have worn off but the muscle spasm is gone. He he. Something worked.
Lunch 1:00: Toasted sandwich: 2 slices wholemeal bread. Lowfat hard cheese. Coffee with milk.
Snack 3:30 Snow peas
Dinner: 7:15 125 gm grilled veal. Ratatouille: capsicum, celery, onion, garlic, black olives, ~ 2 tspns EVO olive oil. ~ 10-12 gm lowfathardcheese. 100 gm potato, ½ C broad beans with a smear of margarine, lots of broccoli.
Snack: 9:301 diet apricot yoghurt. 1 C green tea.
Exercise: 2:05 35-40 minutes, stair climbing at the DNA tower.
5:25 Local walk. 45.5 minutes 4.3 km (2.6 miles)
This was my first stair climbing since May, and my first truly intense exercise in quite a while (Wow I guessed 3-4 weeks – but looked back in my diary and see it has been much more. At least 6.). I realized yesterday that today might give me this opportunity and I was looking forward to it.
For the stairs, I did a couple of stretches, then started walking up at an easy pace. I remember dying before the top on the first set once before, when I misjudged the distance, and I didn't want that. Despite the gentle pace, half way up the first set of steps I was wondering why I had looked forward to it. It actually felt very unpleasant and I was thinking that to look forward to it, I must have remembered some sort of previous afterglow or feeling of virtue, rather than the actual stair climbing. However I didn't get any real fade in my legs until about the fourth set. Then I managed 3-4 sets where I actually felt like running until half way. The first of those was a run til half way then a real lactic acid thing starting at ¾. From then on, whether running half way or not, they were all killer lactic acid legs from half way onwards. On the last set they were legs that felt like they hardly could finish. Despite that, I would have done another set at the end, if I'd had a different number in mind, and if I hadn't needed to get the girl home. I still had legs enough for the beginning of another climb – even if maybe the end would have been dodgy!! Frankly though, I was glad to have a reason to leave!!
Despite all that, somewhere in the middle of it all I was noticing that I was puffing and sweaty and focussed and taking great lungfuls of air and actually enjoying the walks down at least (despite the jelly legs that come with walking down), and enjoying the sensation of having pushed myself. The scenery at the top is good too. 360 degree views - to the city and hills one way, to the coast and Rottnest Island the other. Fortunately, though there were a few tourists, there was no one who actually made me have to stop and restart on the way up, which is a total killer. However, I probably should have had more of a cool down – I just drove straight home, then hobbled inside!
I finally found out how to use the stopwatch on my phone properly, so I'd like to record my times. I was able to check my diary today for a rough idea of what I was doing before and I think I am just as fast as I was which was a pleasant surprise. However, I used to have trouble using the stopwatch so don't have much to compare it to. I don't know what it is about timing these things, but I somehow find it motivating – helping me feel as though I'm achieving something, and giving me a measure of whether I'm improving. Today I was just hoping to find that I hadn't lost too much of my previous gains while I'd been taking it easy. Disclaimer: Maybe the stairs today would have been harder but I had had a muscle spasm in one hip for a couple of days so took 2 ibuprofen before I left home.
10 sets. 1:08 2:15, 1:00 1:38, 1:00 2:17, 1:03 2:15, 0:55 2:11, 0:56 3:20, 0:56 2:22, 1:11 3:06, 1:17 ?, ? ?.
Standard local walk. I realized this is not the same as a couple of my older “standard local walks”, cos I kept extending them. Also I did sometimes do this particular standard local walk and add bits on to try and get an hour's worth. Today was the stock standard with the loop up towards Warwick, the wiggle at the local park, the loop up to the top of the hill, and once around the oval!! Anyway I have checked the length and am now confident it is correct. Today it took 45.5 minutes, including the time it took me to stop and pay the lawnmower guy, and say hi to the gasmeter reader! It wasn't all walking though because my thighs were soooo stiff, that I really felt like jogging a fair bit during the first part of the walk. And I did. And then I thought I'd stirred up my heel spur! I oughtn't complain. The knees have been good and the ankle has become a specific issue which I can mostly avoid by not twisting. Actually that whole 6 miles on Sunday was without knee grief. And by now the ibuprofen at lunch must have worn off but the muscle spasm is gone. He he. Something worked.
way to go for the stair climbing.. that's tough stuff
T2 Trucker
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Oye !!
I need your energy. I'm so flat today *sigh*
I need your energy. I'm so flat today *sigh*
be_gone_soon
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Wow on the stair climbing. Do you a stair climber machine or actual stairs?
felici
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way to go for the stair climbing.. that's tough stuff
Thank you! It does feel like it lasts longer than it says on the clock. LOL.
Skipping? Puffing is good for energizing. 
Aaaw. 
I went to this tower. Sorry the picture's a bit dark. I took it on an overcast day, not all sunshiney like today.Wow on the stair climbing. Do you a stair climber machine or actual stairs?
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that is a cool looking tower -what's i about 5 stories? neat-o
be_gone_soon
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OMG!!!!! How many times times did you asy you did it????? i can't belive it. It looks like the dang stairs at Universal Studios and they killed me 12 yrs ago!! Way to go and I was impressed before!!!
How many times times did you asy you did it????? i can't belive it. It looks like the dang stairs at Universal Studios and they killed me 12 yrs ago!! Way to go and I was impressed before!!!