ladymorella

Good luck on the A100. Hopefully you will able to rest well. You have done what you can and now the rest is up to fate. Enjoy Denver. As I have said super jealous. I really want to go back even if just for work again. Again good luck if I don't talk to you before the A100. Remember we are all pulling for you!

Congrats!

Iceland sounds cool. Grats!

Went to PT for my knee. The initial appointment seemed good. I told him what I knew and he went through the tests. I feel pretty good about the situation. Hopefully it is good, cause my last two times didn't go so well and it felt like a waste of time, money, and hope. He wants me to stop any leg exercises besides the prescribed ones which I am not crazy about, but it is an important troubleshooting step. I get that. I have suspected it is a muscle imbalance anyway and have been trying to scale back on leg things I know I am strong in. So I am trying to figure out what my plan is since I just got a pull-up and push-ups not that long ago and I don't want to lose the progress. I stopped running after my 5k since I felt I had been pushing close to overtraining. I feel pretty well rested now, so I may start up on running again if I can wake up early enough or the night air is cool enough. It won't be soon. Yesterday we had push-ups in the workout again. It was a set amount for time so I decided to not scale them. It took a while, but I did it. I feel the form wasn't too terrible. They still feel really weird. I think maybe I just need to work on planks as I feel the difficulty is more of holding my body in the position and not so much my arms. IDK maybe it is my imagination. I still don't know what they should feel like so I don't know how to tweak whatever it is I feel that is off. I should set up a video recording. Maybe I could see it. Either way an exciting week. Got a couple pull ups and showed the pushup thing wasn't a fluke a couple months ago. I have still been feeling a little exhausted. I feel a little off too. I have been trying to mildly push it since I have so much piled on my to-do list both at home and at work. I have 77/100 done on my to-do list. It's an ever constant battle of pushing it, but not over pushing it. I wish I had another week to take off so I could try to recover, but I just don't have it right now.

Wow it only showed less than 2 hours of walking in 7 hours that is crazy. Maybe I won't try out the auto-pause feature. I have used MapMyRide for several years. It has mapped a lot of my routes pretty good, but it always depends on the area. Is the pack you are using too broad in the shoulders? I have a problem a lot with that. I end up having this tendency to hold my shoulders in a funny way as it feels like it will slip off my shoulders. I finally had to just spend a lot of time remembering to trust my chest strap, but those can be not adjustable enough for women. I had a terrible time trying to find a 30L pack last year, but strangely the 75L I bought 2 years ago was so simple to find one that fit correctly.

Thanks! I thought I was still pretty far off. I was hoping to have it by the end of the year. A week or so ago I decided to give it a try in my back yard, but I only have this square bar to hang from and I could only get to a 90, but it hurt my hands so much on the corners I wanted to see how it compared to the bar at the gym. I kept forgetting to try it until yesterday. Pull ups are difficult. I have been working on negative pull ups for over two months, mostly just to work a muscle imbalance I have which that helps activate the lats or something I need. Dropping the weight helped a lot of course.

That is quite the sentence, be proud. Very proud of the description. That hike sounds legit. Auto-what? I have never noticed that exists. I will have to check it out. 700 sounds kinda low, but I don't know how steep it was.

Thanks! Love the gif

Today I got a pull-up from a hang! This is my first pull up from a hang ever. As a kid I use to be able to start at the top drop down to 90 and then back up a few times. Never have I been able to start from a hang and haven't been able to get them from a 90 is like 20 years or more. Super happy. I think I was close to getting a pull up 3 years ago when I started crossfit, but then I gained weight and they say that is bad for pull up for some strange reason. Feels like a dream I myself wonder if I imagined it. Haha

Totally not feeling the Keto thing. I keep trying to get back on, but the motivation is just gone. I really need to get back though. I think I need to plan out my food again and stop winging it. I don't feel good and winging it is just setting me up for failure. Got a little bit more done on my To-Do list. 74/100 Tomorrow I go to a PT for my knee. Hopefully it goes well. I have been putting it off partly due to work and partly due to bad experiences in the past PT felt like a waste of time and I ended up having to figure it out on my own anyway. Thus feeling like I wasted my time and money. In other news: Today I got my first pull up from a hang ever. I mean not strict obviously as I had a little bicycle kicking to finish it off, but wow. As a kid I could never do that. I had to start over the bar drop to 90 (ish?) then I could pump out a few, but if I dropped below 90 I couldn't do it. I am super happy about it. Since I started CrosFiit my goals were to get push-ups from the toes instead of knees and pull ups. Man if I can hit my goal weight too that would be a hat-trick!

Are you still on vacation? That is rough if so and you are feeling bad. Either way hope you feel better soon.

Nutcracker is right. Wow, never heard of those. Nor seen anyone do them. The calories burned thing is always interesting. I have gone on hikes which an app told me that I burn 5k+ calories. I think the HR monitor said that too, but it seems super over exaggerated. I think the body is more energy efficient than that. I have read a couple articles on estimated calories burned and it is interesting.

I haven't been feeling well. I have sort of dropped all my goals other than the keto/calorie goal 2200-2400. And the to-do list. I just feel so exhausted. I got a lot of sleep this weekend so I am hoping that will help, but we shall see. I fee more tired this evening than yesterday. I think it is just a mix of things with the supplements removed, and the heat ramping up. It was only 92 this weekend so that was nice. Thus far I am on like 59/100 on my to-do list. I had a couple things pop up that forced me to do a couple things on my to-do list, that I otherwise probably wouldn't have done so that was nice.

Wow, even more crazy! Hip thrusts are ackward, but definitely good.

Audible has some lecture courses. I downloaded two before cancelling my subscription. One on nutrition and another on the history of science. I have gone about half the way through the nutrition ones and they seem decent. The History of Science I am super excited about. I listened to one and it sounded really good.

Wow you have a lot of treadmills at your gym for someone to set up shop right next to you. That is crazy. Hopefully the towel thing works for you.

Update: I actually don't feel that great. Been really tired. I am thinking it is mostly due to the lost sleep, but on the other hand my ear has been bothering me. I don't know if I have an ear infection. I can't remember when it started seems like it has been a few days now. Keto: I have given myself a break from the keto right now. I will restart on Monday and it will have to be strict strict. No playing around. Mobility: I haven't been doing too well on this. I am trying to sort of just do it through the day and I don't know what the time of it has been. I have easily hit half the days this week. Supplemental Exercises: I still haven't done much with this. To-Do List: I will have to add things up, but I knocked off a big item worth 25 points and have a few other random ones. I think I am at 27/100.

It's the roasted rice and the popped rice. If you ever have one with less popped rice you will notice a flavor games. I like ones that have a bit of the popped rice. Apparently you can pop brown rice yourself. I tried it once, but couldn't get it to work. The rice had been sitting around a while so that might have been part of it. Oh man your gym stories are something. What are these guys thinking? That you will be impressed and want to go out with them after something like that nonsense. So weird.

Sorry you are sick. Hope you feel better soon.

^Agreed

Arizona. We have almost hit 100 a couple times already. July and August has some chance of hiking, but you have to watch out for flash floods. We usually have people who die in June cause they went hiking and got lost and/or ran out of water. 4 in one day last year.

Managed to squeeze a hike in before work today. I had some night work I had to get done. Added 5.79 miles.

Thanks! It worked out for me. At the end of it all I knew it would be a crapshoot as to what I could do. I could have ended up with a body that felt really good and ready to go, or I could have had lots of issues and extreme fatigue. I was lucky it was in the middle. Oh man, I would have issues if I was told not to eat salt. I don't know why I don't add salt to anything. Just a lazy cook I guess. You would think I would learn. I think part of my problem is I use to not add salt while cooking and just add it at the end after putting the food on my plate. Well a coworker use to always comment on how much salt I used like it was a ton. Funny thing is a couple years later I learned that she had low sodium problems and would get so lightheaded she would almost pass out from a lack of salt. So dumb person to be affected by.

Oh man you will get to get out an hike in the Denver area? So jealous. There was some great trails out there and it is so pretty. That is very exciting.

Looks like you are moving along well. I love genmaicha. It has a different flavor which is nice.