Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:01 am
Tough hike yesterday with lots of short (20' high) hill-lets to go up and down over. Plus a number of felled trees. It is really important to do terrain like this since the treadmill is just too easy, all smooth with safe places to put ones foot. I found walking yesterday was almost like a game of Tetris, matching my stride and location of foot-fall in order to land on a flat piece of icy snow rather than the edge of a frozen footprint and have my foot slide sideways down into the indent.
If I'm a wreck tomorrow, I'll know why.
On treadmill today but we may do a hike today after church. It is still sunny and I'd like to get out at least twice a week. Snow is in the forecast tomorrow, then freezing rain (but that means the cold snap will end.) Wednesday should be very warm so we are thinking of driving down to the Seaway and check out a condo building being built there.
Since dd doesn't have any kids, and our health is probably good for the next few years, we don't need to be in the city for her or hospitals, so we might move down to where I can see ocean going ships. It is an hour long drive back to the city (longer in winter) but would be a nice place to live for a while. I'm actually excited about the possibility so we'll go down for the afternoon, check out the building, check out nearby rental buildings and then walk around the area. This is where Molly's Mom moved to, plus three other neighbours are planning to end up there once their houses sell. So it wouldn't be like we're completely giving up our friends here, since they keep moving there anyway!
Just check my heart rate and realized that the treadmill settings were too easy for me so have upped the incline since I can't up the speed while typing.
I highly recommend checking your heart rate regularly to make sure you are working out in the range you want to be in. Once I got my HRM (I'm too lazy to keep stopping to check in manually) my weight started to come off faster and I started to notice better energy levels in regular life. My body had got used to walking 2 miles a day at 3.2 mph, 1.5% incline and my heart wasn't being pushed into strengthening mode, it was in maintenance mode.