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Post by Voy on Dec 24, 2018 2:28:00 GMT 2
Riki - nonono ! I mean, fine for you, but mine is 9ft tall and hits the ceiling and is crammed with things from travelling - and almost 200 glass icicles. Well, I also have two more trees - little ones on tables - one with sentimental things ( one of my father's baby shoes, bride and groom off my parents' wedding cake , etc) and one with nothing but sheep on it ( from when I lived at the farm and had sheep )
Have I mentioned - I'm a Christmas nut?
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Post by Scrubb on Dec 24, 2018 3:06:58 GMT 2
Today we went to the zoo and walked around for an hour or so. I had planned to go for a run after but things were just way too slippery.
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Post by rikita on Dec 24, 2018 3:09:28 GMT 2
we went to the christmas market today and a. and i did some ice skating. it was only her second time though, and this time it was a lot more crowded and actual ice (before it was kind of a plastic ice imitation), and she had a lot of trouble standing upright. i am not that secure on ice skates either (never was, and now hadn't done it in like ten years), so i got a bit of a backache from being stiff and also trying to help her. a. gave up after two rounds, i did three more rounds by myself (that lasted less than half a round together with her) ... we'll go to a less crowded place sometime, i think, so she can try again (hope she wants to) ...
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Post by rikita on Dec 24, 2018 3:14:10 GMT 2
voy - oh, i like christmas a lot - but we still have to be able to move in the apartment ... and we'll spend part of time at my dad's (christmas eve) and my mom's (second christmas day) anyway, and they have trees too ... not that big ones either though ... until a. was about three i always just had a 30 cm tree i decorated with tiny red apples (not real ones) and some lametta, so our current tree size is a step up ...
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 24, 2018 9:51:25 GMT 2
Riki - nonono ! I mean, fine for you, but mine is 9ft tall and hits the ceiling and is crammed with things from travelling - and almost 200 glass icicles. Well, I also have two more trees - little ones on tables - one with sentimental things ( one of my father's baby shoes, bride and groom off my parents' wedding cake , etc) and one with nothing but sheep on it ( from when I lived at the farm and had sheep ) Have I mentioned - I'm a Christmas nut?
You'd just love it here. NOT!
Christmas Trees ¿Qué? Christmas Cards ¿Qué? Christmas Decorations ¿Qué? Christmas Wrapping Paper ¿Qué? Christmas Presents ¡Wait for Epiphany!
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 24, 2018 11:13:10 GMT 2
Seeing Slow's post ^^^ reminds me of living in France. French friends asked if we kept the Christmas cards and brought them out next year. Come to think of it, not a bad idea; we could tell people not to send us any more cards.
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Post by rikita on Jan 13, 2019 3:30:42 GMT 2
we cycled to the ice skating place and then ice skated a bit ...
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Post by Voy on Jan 13, 2019 5:12:54 GMT 2
doing my exercises in the pool - up to 600 kicks and 300 arm movements - on the way to 1,000/600
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Post by sophie on Jan 13, 2019 5:50:29 GMT 2
I walked a bit and did a bit of yoga then drove a lot..a bit more than 5 hours in total to go visit my husband’s best friend and his family for lunch and then come home.. and they are not even halfway up the island.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 13, 2019 10:01:46 GMT 2
Well I'm afraid I have done zero exercise today, unless you count walking from the couch to the kettle to make a cup of tea. Does it count as exercise if I walk quickly?
I've enjoyed reading what youall have done for exercise though, sounds fun and interesting.
Rikita, only once in my life did I try ice-skating, I was about fourteen and a group of us were taken to St. Moritz (ice-skating rink) I can remember being scared I'd fall and couldn't take my hands of the fence!
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 13, 2019 21:56:28 GMT 2
I've planned regular exercise for the near future. Or begun planning. ;-)
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 17, 2019 4:30:33 GMT 2
I was reasonably good last week at work. I ran 5 times (but quite short runs most of the time, so only 23 km total). I did my physiotherapy exercises every day at lunchtime (except one day when I took a short lunch and then worked late too). And I also worked out with weights a bit - not as much as most weeks, but the equivalent of about 1 really thorough work out, and another half of one. Plus I walked 2 or 3 km each day.
Today I didn't do any exercise, except grocery shopping maybe - hurrying around the store, then humping the bags into the house. And lifting my mom's walker in and out of my car
Oh, and I went to physiotherapy which included ~10 or 15 minutes of exercises.
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Post by sophie on Jan 17, 2019 5:15:47 GMT 2
Scrubb, that is amazing given the temperatures in your area.
Me.. back to the pool today. A week of a nasty cold means my wind or endurance isn’t great, but just doing 30 lengths felt good. I also hiked with husband and dog for about an hour. My hills were a bit slow, but it was nice out, so enjoyed it.
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 17, 2019 5:21:39 GMT 2
Oh, I was on the treadmill. It was insanely cold up at work. Well, one night it was only -8C or so and I was planning to run outside, but it turned out there was a miserable wind, so I didn't.
Good work on the swimming, sophie! I'm a terrible swimmer. Totally comfortable in the water, but I have no good strokes at all. It takes me forever to do 30 lengths. Like, really a long, long, long time.
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 17, 2019 6:01:56 GMT 2
I did something I only manage once every 5 or so years. I let my temper have full rein and ran until it had run out of energy. It was a useless exercise but I feel better Stupid multi million dollar software at work is absolutely idiotic and should be binned but that would mean someone high in the power struggle had to admit to making a mistake. Instead nearly every employee within a multi national company wastes hours and hours with buggy software and a programme that is based on theoretical decisions rather than actual.
Here's why I was so grumpy. Field staff have a hand held device that schedules their work. Except that it has to be syncronsied regularly or they miss the jobs. Takes 8 minutes to do a cycle of sync - if you are in a cellphone reception area and about 50% of our area isn't. All going well the tech then hit I'm travelling, then when he arrives I'm in progress then he can make a choice of I have to go back or Job completed. That info eventually wends its way round the world and finishes up in the 'backroom' which is me or some other sucker. Todays task was to sort out a job a tech completed in 8 hours and get all those times and dates in the right place as the sync action had completed and sent him back to the job at 8 minute intervals. He didn't know because he wasn't in cell coverage. I tried to cancel the job but as it had 5 minute tasks and requests on it - wouldn't let me. Took me 7 hours to fix it and IT just said - it is what it is.
They didn't like my reply.
Is it whine o'clock time anywhere?
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Post by rikita on Jan 17, 2019 11:42:05 GMT 2
i'll go climbing twice a week now (well, on most weeks), as we founded a new climbing group (within our group) mainly for parents on parenting leave but also for others who have time during the week in the morning. we'd always planned to do that, so now that i am not working i decided to start that group (and by the time i have a new job, someone else will have to take over).
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Post by Voy on Jan 17, 2019 16:19:29 GMT 2
I'm back at the pool - trying for everyday - up to 800/600 kicks and kicks-with-arms. boring, but the only kind of exercise you can do that doesn't involve having your feet on the ground ( and swimming ,per se, doesn't work because I don't trust my legs, and the one arm .... oi. So sitting on the noodle it is !
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Post by Voy on Jan 17, 2019 16:21:24 GMT 2
ps - I would buy tickets to watch Kuski's recent exercise !
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 17, 2019 19:44:31 GMT 2
ps - I would buy tickets to watch Kuski's recent exercise ! Ringside might have been a bit close. The heat coming from me may have burnt you. Had a visit last night from the very apologetic tech carrying a bottle of wine (and it wasn't even his fault) so next lot of exercise was to raise my arm and elbow. His wife told me he thought my outburst was 'awesome' and didn't know I had such a vocab or ever seen me pushed to my limit over the years I've been there. His only wish was that it had been recorded and sent to the Board but as they sit around a magnificent table in a sky tower in New York they aren't going to be worried about a tanty by a nobody in a pokey small office in no where land. Tantrum over and feel better.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 17, 2019 20:44:41 GMT 2
For years and years, distance running was deemed unsuitable for female athletes.
"Why?": would be a good question to ask as it was, or at least had been, known that women do better as the races get longer, very much longer, as in 48hr races.
Beyond that distance it is anybody's race.
Nursing mother smashes 268-mile Montane Spine Race record.
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 17, 2019 21:35:35 GMT 2
kuskiwi, how amazingly frustrating that all sounds. I wish I could have seen you in full on mode, too!
slowcoach, I have sort of been following that (via a friend who was actually following it). Incredible! As my friends says, it turns out that getting no sleep while looking after a newborn is actually training for not sleeping while you do something else ;-)
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 18, 2019 8:46:48 GMT 2
ps - I would buy tickets to watch Kuski's recent exercise ! His only wish was that it had been recorded and sent to the Board but as they sit around a magnificent table in a sky tower in New York they aren't going to be worried about a tanty by a nobody in a pokey small office in no where land. Tantrum over and feel better. Fabulous, Kuskiwi, just absolutely fabulous. I wish I'd been a fly on the wall.
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Post by lumi on Jan 19, 2019 1:22:35 GMT 2
I did some Pilates core work yesterday. Just some instruction videos from YouTube but easier than going to a class for now and the same level of instruction and support you get in some classes anyway. The first beginner session I did was too difficult for me so I opted for a different one tha th said it was perfect for seniors. Yep, my core strength isn't great! But it is the one thing that never has been so I'm Ok with that (but working on it).
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 19, 2019 1:27:16 GMT 2
YEsterday I went to the gym but we didn't give ourselves much time, so all I got done was my physio exercises, bench press, tricep exercises, and 1 km on the treadmill! But, I also went to a rowing class in the evening and did 3 km of rowing on a machine, and enjoyed that. I am supposed to go again tomorrow morning at 8 am. Ugh. But I want to make myself go.
Today I've been super lazy. Took my MOm shopping and that's about it.
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2019 2:41:37 GMT 2
a. and i went swimming today (well, jumping around in the water, really)
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Post by lumi on Jan 20, 2019 1:36:49 GMT 2
I did some Pilates core work yesterday. Just some instruction videos from YouTube but easier than going to a class for now and the same level of instruction and support you get in some classes anyway. The first beginner session I did was too difficult for me so I opted for a different one tha th said it was perfect for seniors. Yep, my core strength isn't great! But it is the one thing that never has been so I'm Ok with that (but working on it). The muscles on to of my ribs feel bruised so I guess I really did work them when I did the Pilates. No idea if these are the correct muscles the workout was targeting though. I'd have expected it to be the stomach muscles but no pain there!
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 20, 2019 4:17:27 GMT 2
Went to rowing again this morning. It was hard getting up in the dark to drive to the boathouse* when it was -23, plus windy, but I actually did it. We did some core work afterwards.
*the boathouse being where the rowing machines are housed. River's frozen these days!
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Post by rikita on Jan 20, 2019 13:36:19 GMT 2
climbing yesterday.
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Post by wikki on Jan 21, 2019 19:12:12 GMT 2
The muscles on to of my ribs feel bruised so I guess I really did work them when I did the Pilates. No idea if these are the correct muscles the workout was targeting though. I'd have expected it to be the stomach muscles but no pain there! You need to pay attention to your apps. You have to activate them. You can do most of the pilates excersises without your stomach muscles- But that's not the right way. Did you ever had an Pilates training with a coach? If not... Pilates isn't that easy as it looks. (for now make sure you activate your stomach muscles and make sure they stay flat and your lowe back down! Your straight ,from up - down muscles are most likely stronger but you want the horizontal ones to work)
I did nothing. Just the moving around at work, but I just can't motivate my self to work out properly..... I keep trying.
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Post by Scrubb on Jan 21, 2019 21:11:09 GMT 2
Yesterday I got myself out for a run (first time in a week, but it's been really cold). Also did my physiotherapy exercises after slacking off for a couple days.
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