I have been radio silent for about six weeks or so on here. I had chosen my fitness journey #fitby60 as my primary content here and I’ve hit a major snag. On August 20th, I began to have back pain. It started out as a minor issue but it quickly became a major problem. Within a couple of days, I was in so much pain that I could barely sleep at night and exercise was out of the question. For the last 50 nights or so I have struggled with at first no more than 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night.
I reached a bittersweet milestone today at #parkrun. It was my 25th, all since 12/31/22. However, because of an irritated nerve in my neck, I couldn’t run and I walked instead. Oh well. The important thing with parkrun is getting out there and doing it. And I did it. #parkrun25
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Monday night heated yoga. I have been looking for a way to stretch out my body because I feel tightness a lot. On advice, I went to a heated yoga class. Well, I was the proverbial fish out of water. I could do moves if I understood them, but it was hard to follow instructions and I sweated so much that my mat got slippery.

The instructor was very nice and suggested a different class. I think I can get a lot of benefit out of yoga so I will keep trying.

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Monday 5:30AM PWR cycle at #LifetimeFitness. I have backed off of my previous efforts somewhat and it has helped with issue in my right quad. I got sucked into competing against this tri-athlete 25 years younger than me since the power numbers are displayed in class. I could keep up with him, but at the cost of a slight injury. So I’ll back off and slowly build up. Today was all speed. Lots of furious pedaling.

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Saturday morning easy run. No #parkrun today because I am sitting on 24 and I want #25 to be run at Kingston Park Cottage Grove (canceled this week), my home parkrun. I added an easy four lap run around the sub development at 155 spm.

I found out that I can run at this pace for a pretty long time. My goal is to stretch out easy runs at this pace to six or seven miles.

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Friday mid morning walk. I have had a weird sensation in my right quad, which I have alluded to. I don’t feel it when I am exercising, but when I stop, it tightens up and is quite sore. I took it easy on the bike today and I went on an easy walk. The quad is as good today as it has been in the last couple of weeks. Nice, easy workouts are a key I guess when I have some muscle aches.

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Friday 5:30AM PWR cycling at #LifetimeFitness. I backed off on the intensity today because I have had some discomfort in my right groin. Still a pretty good workout, but not a full on effort. The result is that my heart rate only averaged 116 bpm. Since Saturday is #parkrun (although I am not running tomorrow), maybe a reduced effort on Friday would be a good idea.

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Thursday night weightlifting. New routine from my trainer. Three of the seven lifts were things I had done before, but four new lifts. I have put down benchmarks that I can improve on! (in other words, I have work to do)

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Wednesday morning run in my hometown. 3.36 miles in 32:20. I don’t want to say it’s flat there, but my elevation gain was zero feet (!!!) on Strava (2m on Apple).

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Tuesday morning run. I did run/walk intervals of 13/2 minutes. Did exactly the same route last Tuesday. Then I did 2/10 walk/run intervals. Today 39:51. Last week 43:31. So 3:40 improvement. It was 13 degrees cooler today, which helped a lot. I was overheated last week.

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