Do you Run?……Walk?….Bike?…..Swim?…..yoga?…..lift weights? What’s your workout plan?

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Rode sweep behind my wife as she took the 1970s 10-speed she’s been rehabbing out for a test ride. Only 5&1/2 miles.
 
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Hike up to Craggy Flats (a mountain bald 5,680' ASL) with my Ecology and Field Biology class, 0.3 pretty vertical rocky miles without my Kelty pole, which I left in the school van. Hike down (accidentally) on the Craggy Gardens portion of the Mountain to Sea Trail all by my lonesome, more like 0.5-0.6 miles, where the trail seemed suspiciously easier on the way down, and featured interestingly fresh bear scat @joevol33.

lol

It was a very nice walk. Lifelong learner! Green highlit trail marks the intended trail; wobbly black line and arrow marks my variation.

Everyone was very good-natured about it, and we all had a good laugh. On the way back, a classmate got violently carsick in the van, and a second classmate, inspired by the first, jumped out and puked behind the van. I pulled out all my kleenex and alcohol wipes and hand sanitizer and honey cough drops and extra water and somewhat redeemed myself.

No photos of THAT, but trail map and (I guess) bear scat:
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VolNExile said:
Hike up to Craggy Flats (a mountain bald 5,680' ASL) with my Ecology and Field Biology class, 0.3 pretty vertical rocky miles without my Kelty pole, which I left in the school van. Hike down (accidentally) on the Craggy Gardens portion of the Mountain to Sea Trail all by my lonesome, more like 0.5-0.6 miles, where the trail seemed suspiciously easier than on the way down, and featured interestingly fresh bear scat @joevol33.

lol

It was a very nice walk. Lifelong learner!

Green highlit trail marks the intended trail; wobbly black line and arrow marks my variation.

Everyone was very good-natured about it, and we all had a good laugh. On the way back, a classmate got violently carsick in the van, and a second classmate, inspired by the first, jumped out and puked behind the van. I pulled out all my kleenex and alcohol wipes and hand sanitizer and honey cough drops and extra water and somewhat redeemed myself.

No photos of THAT, but trail map and (I guess) bear scat:
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You should definitely carry a flamethrower
 
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In 1993, I had a colleague who had been a park ranger in the Smokeys. He invited me to join him at the lodge atop Mt. Le Conte. I arrived in Knoxville realizing that I had left my walking stick at home. Improvising, I cut a portion of a thick, dead muscadine vine hanging from a tree beside the railroad tracks at the dead end of Laurel Ave (yes, I was visiting old haunts in K-town). A little bit of knife work, and I’d fashioned a passable staff. Upon my reaching the lodge atop Mt. Le Conte, my colleague proclaimed to all present, “Moses has joined us.” He accepted the story of the staff and opined that forgetting my walking stick was “dumbass.”
 
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I must say that riding trails on old railroad grade means pedaling constantly up or down low railroad grades. It’s a work out. On hilly rural roads, you have steeper hills to work up, but you also have breaks coasting down the other sides.
 
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It's really sad how I've not been riding. Joint issues, etc. Last week I went out for the first time in weeks and ended up with a very rare flat tyre after four miles. Turned out to be a piece of wire so small that you couldn't even see it on the outside. Needed tweezers to grab and extract it.

Patched the tube (took two attempts) and made it out for a proper, albeit slow, ride Tuesday.

I really need to get a different saddle. This one digs into my underparts.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
That’s outstanding
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Thanks bossman. Do you take any supplements for your joints? I don’t feel bad during the run, but for a few hours after I feel pretty lousy. I stretch and keep shoe mileage under 350. I typically feel fine the next day, by the time I’m walking down to the kitchen after waking up.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Thanks bossman. Do you take any supplements for your joints? I don’t feel bad during the run, but for a few hours after I feel pretty lousy. I stretch and keep shoe mileage under 350. I typically feel fine the next day, by the time I’m walking down to the kitchen after waking up.
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I take every supplement available. And I too watch shoe miles. I retire mine early just to be safe. I also always have good shoes on my feet. About 3 years ago I went to a clinic at the orthopedic center and they taught me a old man stride that has helped a bunch
 
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