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I just finished my 2015 workout spreadsheet. Did 275 workouts and burned off an indicated 196,000 calories (consistently use a Polar heart rate monitor). Weight was down just slightly from 2014. All in fairly happy with result although both number of workouts and Cals burned are down from...

Just finished a good workout this AM. My max heart rate went to 153 BPM while the average over 45 minutes was 142. This is a little more than usual for me. I was wondering how high your heart rate goes and for how long? I am 63 years old.

For my birthday my DW bought me one of those heart rate monitor watches (Polar). This gives me all kinds of data relating to my daily workouts. The key for me is calories burned. This is determined by an algorithm based on average heart rate during the workout. So this results in a wide...

I had a retina detach last week. Quite an experience. Had great service here in Toronto and had laser surgery the same day. The Canadian health care system wooked very well in this case. The proceedure includes injecting a gas bubble into the eye to hold the retina against the eye so it can...

On our way back from a fantastic biking trip to the Damation coast. Excellent riding, and super scenery. Truly one of the under appreciated corners of Europe. Started in Split then worked our way down to Dubrovnik stopping at the islands of Hvar and Korcula. Would recommend it-and not very...

Just got back from Scottsdale Arizona. Had a great time and the weather was perfect. While there we looked at a couple of homes for sale. Could not believe the values. 5,000 square feet and up for under $1million in really upscale areas. Have rented a house for next fall. It is over 7,000...

My DW and I are were both accountants when we worked. She was a project manager and I a senior bank exec. Planning was a cornerstone of our working lives. We have been retired for almost 5 years and we may have taken planning to an extreme. We track everything on spreadsheets: where we...

We just got back from a trip to London and Berlin. We have been to London many times so no surprise there. Berlin was a real treat. Weather was superb-sunny and around 5-10C. Hired a private guide for 3 days and saw everything. The house where they had the conference where the Nazis agreed...

We really blew our 2010 budget- over by 20%. Must do better in 2011. Major overages in health care, gifts, travel, and auto. How did you guys do?

OK we have heard about the disappointments. What about the best vacations ever? I think mine would be the one where we picked up a new car in Germany than drove it through Northern Italy. Stopped in Salzberg, Venice, Tuscany, Lake Como, and Porto Fino. Part of the fun was getting to know and...

Just got back from a Carribean cruise on the Solstice. Pretty bad. many of the people were overweight and the rest were obese. Everday at 4PM there was a stampede to get burgers and fries. Acres of flabby flesh everywhere you looked. Ports were poor. We only went to be with a relative who...

Hello- I have posted a few times in last week after running across this site so I thought I should introduce myself. I am 59 years old and retired about 3 years ago after a career as an exec at one of Canada's large Banks. Work was getting to be a chore so decided I had enough (both...