Brain Training and Cognitive Health

A round-up of interested news during the month:Brain Health News

1) Training Young Brains to Behave (New York Times)

2) Head Games (OpEd in New York Times)

3) Will Gerontology recognize the Brain? (American Society on Aging event)

4) Brain function gets a boost from walking (Los Angeles Times)

5) An idea whose time has (finally) come (McKnight's Long Term Care News)

6) Train your brain (Financial Times Germany)

7) Toman auge ejercicios que adiestran la mente (Milenio, Mexico)

8) Trois nouvelles études IDATE : Serious Games (Publi-News, France)

Finally

Sunday I got out for a walk around the bridges circuit (pictures wouldn’t transfer from phone, still working on it) which is around 10km … in 34C heat. The FBH joined me for 3-odd km before she turned back (I thought we were halfway and wondered what the point of turning back was) until I realised we started at a different point and I’d only done 3km of 10. :(

Anyway, I kept going doing a little jog here and there but the heat was a tad too much so I just walked most of the way. Though I did run the inclines. And that really was an effort.

In the end the 10km took around 85 minutes. I was shocked. Though I wasn’t busting to get round, just get round.

We headed home and watched a really great movie called Angel-A by Luc Besson. A bit out there, in French and black & white but an enjoyable movie.

Then last night I got home and the FBH said “Are you going to walk before or after dinner?”

If I ate dinner I wouldn’t walk, so we changed and headed out. 6-odd km with the tempo of run a song, walk a song. And that took around 50 minutes.

So it seems I’m slowing down with the heat. I’m also trying to run slowly.

I seem to have this thing that as soon as I start a run I want to finish and it keeps my pace up, but often the pace isn’t sustainable, hence the walking. I really do need to learn to run slowly.

My Garmin 305 has an exercise where I have to run (I think it’s 2km) without my heart rate getting out of zone 1. I’m not sure I could do that and run at the same time. Walk yes. Run, not sure.

So, happy that I’ve done a couple of runs and feel a lot better for it. I also feel like the desire to run regularly might be back so I’ll look forward to that.

Watching the weight but not keeping to a healthy diet. So that is the next task. Need to plan my food intake rather than wonder what’s in the fridge/pantry.

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