Lämmchen's Workout Thread

[tango]

A relatively easy workout today. My suggested workout was a base level run, although it turned into more of a tempo level run. Not a huge difference, just a little faster than intended. I still find it hard to keep my pace as slow as the suggestions for a base workout.

 

[Lamb]

That's harder work than you'd expect, until you actually do it. My wife would often spend time tinkering with her plants and comment how tired she was. I thought it was pretty easy work, until the first time I tried it. Totally different muscle groups to anything I was familiar with exercising. And, as you say, lots of bending and stooping can be more effort than you'd expect without doing anything else at all.

I got 7,000 steps getting my garden all set up. I was wiped out for the day too!

 

[tango]

I got 7,000 steps getting my garden all set up. I was wiped out for the day too!

It's surprising how they add up. I got 2000 steps just walking around gathering stuff up to do a fairly small job and then clean up the dust. My wife can often get 4-5000 steps when she mows the lawn, with extra steps moving about tending to her plants. She likes mowing the lawn - I used to do it until one day she wanted it done while I was busy and did it herself, and decided she liked doing it.

 

[Lamb]

It's surprising how they add up. I got 2000 steps just walking around gathering stuff up to do a fairly small job and then clean up the dust. My wife can often get 4-5000 steps when she mows the lawn, with extra steps moving about tending to her plants. She likes mowing the lawn - I used to do it until one day she wanted it done while I was busy and did it herself, and decided she liked doing it.

I'll never mow the lawn because my allergies are just too bad and I don't even hang around outside when my husband or neighbors are out there mowing. I'll hire first before I have to do anything about the lawn.

 

[tango]

I'll never mow the lawn because my allergies are just too bad and I don't even hang around outside when my husband or neighbors are out there mowing. I'll hire first before I have to do anything about the lawn.

Did you try eating local honey? We have friends who are beekeepers who have mentioned that locally made honey (natural, unflltereed etc) is supposed to be good for that. We eat their honey because it tastes good and we like to support local producers, but I've often wondered if it does help.

I vaguely recall someone, I think it might have been you, saying something about bee keeping in another thread ages ago?

 

[tango]

Today's suggested workout is sprint repeats. I'm not sure whether to do that or do something else. I like the anaerobic bursts of sprint repeats but keep finding they align with awkward parts of my routes - the steep hill with the blind curve, the bit where I have to cross the main road, the downhill section that's too awkward to sprint full-tilt...

 

[tango]

I did the sprint repeats. The sprint pace was hard to sustain, especially since I had a few of them on uphill sections, but I got through it even if I didn't meet the sprint speed target every time. I wish they were more configurable - the suggested workout gave me 3-minute recovery times between 15-second sprints, and I really didn't need that long. When I do my own free-form sprint repeats I usually give myself about half that, and aim for 20-30 second sprint intervals.

 

[Lamb]

Did you try eating local honey? We have friends who are beekeepers who have mentioned that locally made honey (natural, unflltereed etc) is supposed to be good for that. We eat their honey because it tastes good and we like to support local producers, but I've often wondered if it does help.

I vaguely recall someone, I think it might have been you, saying something about bee keeping in another thread ages ago?

I've heard about the honey, but a lot of people in my area insist that honey just doesn't work and their allergies are still bad. We have plenty of honey sellers here and it tastes delicious.

 

[tango]

I've heard about the honey, but a lot of people in my area insist that honey just doesn't work and their allergies are still bad. We have plenty of honey sellers here and it tastes delicious.

I think it has to be local honey, made from local pollen. If it's filtered or processed apparently it changes something in the honey - it has to be plain and simple bee juice.

I don't eat a lot of honey but really enjoy it when I do.

 

[Lamb]

I think it has to be local honey, made from local pollen. If it's filtered or processed apparently it changes something in the honey - it has to be plain and simple bee juice.

I don't eat a lot of honey but really enjoy it when I do.

Yep, we have plenty of local honey and it doesn't work.

 

[tango]

I wonder if there's something unusual about pollen in the US. I've never seen people have such severe allergies to pollens abroad.

 

[Lamb]

I wonder if there's something unusual about pollen in the US. I've never seen people have such severe allergies to pollens abroad.

I'm allergic to so many things and it's like a bucket, once you start filling it with your various allergens, it eventually overflows.

I noticed that I have a reaction to fox urine!! It's crazy and we have a lot of foxes in the field behind our house so maybe that contributes to feeling awful when I'm out in the garden?

Today I went and did my 3 mile hike before it gets too hot. I'm so glad I did because the weather was perfect! A lady who was a lot older than I am actually passed me on the trail LOL Good for her!

 

[tango]

I'm allergic to so many things and it's like a bucket, once you start filling it with your various allergens, it eventually overflows.

I noticed that I have a reaction to fox urine!! It's crazy and we have a lot of foxes in the field behind our house so maybe that contributes to feeling awful when I'm out in the garden?

Fox urine? I've never even heard of a sensitivity to that before! I guess if they aren't in your yard you can't even do anything about them?

Today I went and did my 3 mile hike before it gets too hot. I'm so glad I did because the weather was perfect! A lady who was a lot older than I am actually passed me on the trail LOL Good for her!

My suggested run today is a 45-minute base intensity run. Yesterday I did a tempo level run (which was originally planned to be a base level run but I didn't try hard enough to keep my speed down), and then replaced a nasty patch of lath and plaster with a drywall offcut, so my legs feel like weights today. I may do the base run or may walk instead.

 

[tango]

My wife wanted to walk so I went for a walk with her. I spent most of the walk feeling glad I wasn't running, my legs feel like weights today. I've been hauling stuff up and down stairs, tinkering with stuff around the house and cleaning up, and it feels like they've given everything they have to give lately. And still I expect more from them....

 

[tango]

Today's suggested workout was sprint repeats. The way my watch runs them makes them too easy - the actual sprints are hard but not long enough and the recovery times are too long. I often need to tweak them to avoid sprinting for the section where I cross the main road and for a couple of steeper downhill sections.

So today I did my own sprint repeats. Longer sprint intervals paired with shorter recovery times and adjusting the sprints on the fly to sprint as many of the uphill sections as I sensibly could made for a much harder workout. I knew I'd pushed myself hard because for the very last hill on the circuit my sprint pace was over a minute per mile slower than the first of the sprint repeats. I made it to the top of the hill but felt like my legs were spent. By then I wasn't driving my pulse up really high because my legs just didn't have enough to give to make my heart work to supply them.

 

[Lamb]

My husband was off work yesterday, so we went hiking but this morning I have blood work to get done, so I don't know how hot it will be once I'm done with that. My neighbor said she'll go with me when I return.

 

[tango]

Today was a base run. I still struggle to keep my speed down to the rate it suggests, even with my legs really not wanting to do much after yesterday's sprints.

I checked the charts for my run yesterday. The suggested workout would have fit 9 sprint intervals into about 5-6 miles. What I actually did was 35 sprint intervals across 8 miles.

I suspect that tomorrow's workout will be an easy one whatever the suggestion might be.

 

[Lamb]

I did my 3 mile hike yesterday, but today I have a meeting this morning so I'm trying to get my laundry done before I leave. So no hiking for me today.

 

[tango]

My suggested workout today was another base run so I did that. I didn't really feel like doing much of anything today but did manage to keep my average speed about 30 seconds per mile slower than yesterday. Still not slow enough to match the target pace but getting closer, and it measured as a base run rather than a tempo run.

Some days it's just about getting the distance in rather than feeling like anything specific is achieved. It's surprising what benefits there are to building a solid base, even though at the time it feels a bit tedious. I'm sometimes finding a faster run is easier than I expected it to be, largely thanks to building up that base with lots of slower runs.

 

[Lamb]

I'm not sure if I'll make it to the park to hike today. My husband picked up a new grill and we have to assemble it today. I hate doing that, but he had stuff in the truck and didn't want to buy an already assembled one that will move around and get banged up on the 45 minute drive home.