Training Log Archive: JanetT

To the P.O. to mail a card. Temp near 30, but not sunny and I didn't realize there was a breeze. I survived anyway. :-)

Used weights today; lots of tricep work. Managed a couple of side planks (briefly), but still need to pad/support my backside for things like V seats and roll ups (I found that putting hands under sitz bones helps. Getting better.).

1000m

Adductors (12@70#) (only one set because we did inner thigh leg lifts in class)
Pulldowns (10@62.5)
Leg presses (2x12@90)

Why does she have to do a 15 minute warmup? C'mon, lady, cut to the chase. :-) At least we did some stepping today. Upper body and core muscles are starting to get used to being used again.

This afternoon I went to a talk at the state museum on textile preservation. I was able to show and ask about storing a couple of items I inherited from a family member, a nineteenth century woven coverlet likely made by an ancestor, and a paisley shawl, probably mass produced (but who knows?). Recommendations were to try to get acid free tubes to roll them around; otherwise store them folded with padding in the folds to reduce creasing.

Eileen B linked to this video/interview of Ilona Dobos of Ottawa on YouTube about O being an "ageless sport." Nice.

Pilates with Mary. We started a bit late because she was trying to get her microphone to work without feedback; didn't work. Had to avoid/modify the V-seats, teasers and rolldowns, though I'm okay leaning on the outer side of my hip, just not the center of my low back/glute area.

Next week they're refinishing the floor in the studio. I don't know if class will be relocated or canceled.

Good to reconnect with co-exercisers who had noticed our absence. :-)

The machine I normally used was next to a woman with VERY strong perfume (plus, to me, a smell of moth balls unless it was just very bad perfume), so I chose one of the fixed-arm ellipticals that's similar but far away from hers.

Started with hill interval level 3 as usual, but couldn't keep it up (legs aren't used to it!) so after 14 minutes I switched to level 2, where the resistance is slightly less (20 vs 25, whatever that means); plus a 2 min cool down. Total of 1.5 "mi".

Adductors (12@75, 12@70#) and pulldowns (12@62.5#). I've missed these (my PT for knee and shoulder).

Back to Chatham after a lengthy absence (hadn't been there since first week of January). Good aerobics warmup/section, so by the time we did core my abs weren't as sore as they might have been. I could definitely feel yesterday's Pilates session when doing bicycles.

Stumbled across this Google map, from a reference in this article about a spiral sand installation in Egypt. Neat.

Zoom in on the green arrow; near Qesm Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
http://goo.gl/maps/Y8f3d

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Nothing like jumping into the deep end after time off. The Sunday class is usually tougher than the Tue/Thur class (different instructor, more reps, less stretching), so some of the moves required modification, especially (for me) the ones requiring sitting back on the glutes (V seat, teasers, etc.) because of my fall last weekend when I landed hard on my butt. I'll be back to doing them soon enough; in the meantime was glad to see I hadn't lost much if any core strength. :-) Will probably have some sore places tomorrow.

Alternated lanes with Glen for the first half mile, then he took off to run, while I kept walking. 7:40 / 7:28 for the halfs.

4:22 cool down, about 4 laps on the inside lane (15 to a mile)