Lämmchen's Workout Thread

[Lucian Hodoboc]

 

[Lamb]

I walked a mile with my neighbor and then hopped in the car and went to the park to do 3.5 miles. The hounds were there and I got to see them again! They are super quiet when they sneak up on you! LOL

 

[tango]

Another long run today. I didn't really feel like running when I set off so decided I'd probably make it an easier run and extend the distance. A little under a mile into the run I was feelng strong so pushed the pace a little.

In the end I did 10 miles, shaving a couple of minutes off my personal best time for the loop and also earning myself a pretty badge on my tracker software.

 

[Lamb]

I'll be painting my husband's office over the next few days so I don't know if I'll get a chance to go out and walk at the park. I don't wear my FitBit while painting so I won't even know how many steps I'll be getting.

 

[tango]

I'll be painting my husband's office over the next few days so I don't know if I'll get a chance to go out and walk at the park. I don't wear my FitBit while painting so I won't even know how many steps I'll be getting.

I find when I'm doing work on the house my tracker often barely counts anything. I think the issue is that anything less than a certain number of steps at once is ignored so when I'm taking a small number of steps, pausing, taking a small number of steps, pausing, it may end up not counting many of them.

If I'm doing the kind of work that involves something like multiple trips back and forth with a piece of wood as I try and trim it to fit snugly into an irregularly shaped gap that's exactly the type of movement I'm doing - maybe six steps to get to position, then stop as I put it in place and mark where it needs to be trimmed, then six steps to take it back to where I can run a jigsaw along the edge, then stop as I shave a piece off the edge, then six steps to see how it fits, rinse and repeat.

 

[tango]

Two badges in one workout today.

The challenge was to run a 10k this weekend (Friday - Sunday). I decided to run my 8-mile route to cover the 10k distance, because I've been working on endurance rather than outright speed for a while. So I got my pretty badge and got another one for completing 100,000 steps so far this month. The deadline was April 14.

Sometimes working on endurance feels tedious because it can be quite an effort to go more slowly, but it seems to pay dividends over time. The kind of times I'm clocking now when I'm taking it gently are the kind of times that represented a new PB not all that long ago.

 

[tango]

Curiously not all that long after my run today I don't actually feel like I've been running. Maybe I'll get another run in tomorrow.

On Sunday we're going to a friend's house right after church so I don't imagine I'll be doing much more than a gentle walk to maintain activity streaks, so I'll look to run when I can.

Next week is supposed to be nice so I might do some hiking in the mountains. My tracker has some new challenges that involve climbing - it tracks the amount of elevation we gain and notionally measures flights of stairs. There are a few challenges, relating to mountains around the world. The hike-based challenges are easy - steps turn into distance and you can gradually chip them away. They range from the Great Wall of China (about 12.5 miles) to the Appalachian Trail (2000+ miles). The mountains are much slower - even with 5-600 feet of elevation gain (effectively 50-60 flights of stairs) it takes a while to accumulate the 20,000+ feet to scale some of the mountains. Needless to say Everest and K2 are the top badges on that front.

 

[tango]

Another 8 mile run today. My suggested workout was 45 minutes at a gentle pace. I did 45 minutes at a slightly less gentle pace but still kept my heart rate way down compared to normal. Then I ran the rest of the route at a marginally faster rate.

As with yesterday I don't really feel like I've been running. I guess even though keeping my speed down is frustrating and I don't feel like I've been doing very well with it, I seem to be getting stronger. That said my quads did complain a little when I did battle with a piece of soundproofing...

Then my wife wanted to walk, so I went round one of our shorter (3.5 mile) loops with her. So today is another day where I've chalked up over 12 miles of generally moving about.

 

[tango]

Today I planned a walk rather than a run but my suggested workout was an easy run so I decided to do that instead of a walk. And I managed to keep my speed slower than I have for a while. Not quite as slow as my suggested workout but slow enough that a 10k run still counted as increasing my low aerobic load rather than high aerobic, which was a good result.

It also means I ran a 10k three times in three days, which I hadn't expected to happen. But slowing the pace makes that sort of thing much easier. I may yet do another one tomorrow. I wonder how many consecutive days I can do a gentle 10k before my body starts to complain about it.

 

[Lamb]

My husband and I went hiking both Saturday and Sunday at two different parks. Beautiful day for both hikes!

 

[tango]

I decided not to make it four in a row yesterday. My suggested workout for the day was "rest", not even a light recovery workout, so I went for a walk with my wife instead.

Today I ran my 8-mile route again. My chest strap glitched during the run and gave me silly heart rate readings (if what it indicated was true I would almost certainly have literally died while running) so I had to stop and turn it off. Then my wrist-based heart-rate monitor is prone to cadence locking so that gave some silly figures and I had to pause to get more sensible figures there too.

My chest strap has glitched before and I think it just means it needs a new battery. I hope I don't need a new strap. Batteries don't seem to last a particularly long time in it, but then it is 10 years old or so.

 

[Lamb]

I decided not to make it four in a row yesterday. My suggested workout for the day was "rest", not even a light recovery workout, so I went for a walk with my wife instead.

Today I ran my 8-mile route again. My chest strap glitched during the run and gave me silly heart rate readings (if what it indicated was true I would almost certainly have literally died while running) so I had to stop and turn it off. Then my wrist-based heart-rate monitor is prone to cadence locking so that gave some silly figures and I had to pause to get more sensible figures there too.

My chest strap has glitched before and I think it just means it needs a new battery. I hope I don't need a new strap. Batteries don't seem to last a particularly long time in it, but then it is 10 years old or so.

My husband uses a chest strap for his nordic track elliptical and we just changed the battery today in it since it was glitching. I think his last battery only lasted a month? I think the connections are getting too corroded from the sweat, check your connections too when you change the battery.

I've had a goal of doing 15 miles of hiking each week (I still make sure to get 10,000 steps a day at least) and it's wearing me out.

 

[tango]

My husband uses a chest strap for his nordic track elliptical and we just changed the battery today in it since it was glitching. I think his last battery only lasted a month? I think the connections are getting too corroded from the sweat, check your connections too when you change the battery.

I've had a goal of doing 15 miles of hiking each week (I still make sure to get 10,000 steps a day at least) and it's wearing me out.

It should be sealed against sweat but I guess they need it to break somehow. The battery is definitely more than a month old, I guess I'm used to batteries lasting a year or more it catches me off guard when they don't.

 

[tango]

I'll have to take a look to see if I still have the thn rubber inserts to put into watch backs when replacing the batteries. If I can find them and still have my silicone grease maybe I can reseal it. It can't harm anything I guess.

Annoyingly I was at the hardware store yesterday and forgot to get a battery for it. The local hardware store probably sells what I need but sometimes their batteries have sat for a while and have lost some voltage. I had to return a couple of their batteries a while back because I got them home and right out of the packet they were far enough under voltage they didn't work properly.

 

[Lamb]

I'll have to take a look to see if I still have the thn rubber inserts to put into watch backs when replacing the batteries. If I can find them and still have my silicone grease maybe I can reseal it. It can't harm anything I guess.

Annoyingly I was at the hardware store yesterday and forgot to get a battery for it. The local hardware store probably sells what I need but sometimes their batteries have sat for a while and have lost some voltage. I had to return a couple of their batteries a while back because I got them home and right out of the packet they were far enough under voltage they didn't work properly.

That's why we prefer Duracell when we can afford them. They are usually higher quality than any other brand I've used.

 

[tango]

That's why we prefer Duracell when we can afford them. They are usually higher quality than any other brand I've used.

For anything that matters I usually go for branded batteries, for that very reason.

If it's something like a battery powered tealight that takes a coin cell I'll go for the ones from the dollar stores, because the tealights are the kind of thing that come from the dollar store so there's no point paying $6 for a battery to power a 50c tealight.

 

[Lamb]

For anything that matters I usually go for branded batteries, for that very reason.

If it's something like a battery powered tealight that takes a coin cell I'll go for the ones from the dollar stores, because the tealights are the kind of thing that come from the dollar store so there's no point paying $6 for a battery to power a 50c tealight.

I totally agree!! Depends on what you need and how you're using things to determine what you should pay.

 

[tango]

With a brand new battery it still glitched. I did some research into it and wonder if I need to moisten it more, or check the position I'm wearing it.

It's weird, it works just fine for the first mile or so and then tells me my pulse went from 148 to 186 in the space of 20 seconds.

Anyway, heart rate woes aside I did another run today but it was really hot so I struggled with it. My legs wanted to go faster but my heart and lungs couldn't keep up in the heat.

 

[Lamb]

Yesterday was definitely hot here too and my body remained warm ALL day and ALL night. This thyroid hormone mess is going to make me have a miserable summer if this keeps up.

 

[tango]

Got a short run in yesterday which was a battle because it was warm again. I could get away with a shorter run because I went for a walk in the mountains earlier. Today I did another 10k but didn't manage to keep the speed down as much as I had hoped. At present I'm really trying to focus on maintaining a distance of between 10-15k at a time but without letting my pulse stay elevated for any length of time.

There's no point trying to go up hills without my pulse rising but I look to temper the pace so it can come back down again. It makes for slower running but seem to be improving my fitness.