#parkrun today. I am volunteering as the timer. Seventh volunteer credit, first as a timer. I look forward to the day when I can run again. Until then, I will volunteer to support this great event.
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Kenneth B 🤘
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I’m any event, I am hoping to resume posting positive posts about my workouts and training in 2024 as I approach 60 (Jan 2025). For now, I continue to deal with an unexpected detour.
As my friend told me this week, growing old is not for the timid. I do not plan to be a shrinking violet. Rather I hope to break through these struggles and get back on my fitness path.
It is frustrating to me… I have worked so hard to transform my body and I had (have) a lot of ambitious plans to continue to improve my health and fitness. In the interim, I have found that I have a mass on my thyroid, which I hope is benign. I am working on that too and due to incompetence by my former doctor, I have allowed this to remain unaddressed for an extra month.
I am not messing around anymore — I have an appointment at Mayo to deal with this.
I was sitting on 24 parkruns and I desperately wanted that 25th #parkrun. I walked the 25th and two more. I am now volunteering until my situation can be resolved. I have encountered the American health care system, which can be a nightmare. At long last, I have, I think, a root cause of my pain and a treatment plan in place. I am hoping to avoid surgery but we will see.
I have a pinched nerve that is age related and unrelated to my exercising and workouts.
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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A Journey of Health and Community | parkrun US Blog
Ken, a regular parkrunner at Hamlet Park parkrun*, recounts his story of how parkrun helped him recover from a series of atrial fibrillation events. Realizing he needed to make lifestyle changes, he attended parkrun and gradually incorporated running into his routine. He found his health improved and formed meaningful connections in his community. *Before we...
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.
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.
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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