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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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December 29, 2004

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I'm ready for the new year. I can't believe it's here, but still, I'm ready for a fresh start. I just want to clean and dung things out. The house, work, my workouts, my attitude, my body—I want to open the blinds and turn on the blinds and reassess.

I've been consumed with the thought of cleaning, of pruning, of getting down to business. I feel so strongly that going to the sports chiropractor was the right thing to do, and I'm so excited to have my new hamstring exercises. Oh my gosh, it's almost like having a personal trainer.

Today, my legs feel better. Walking down stairs is still unpleasant, but it's a lot better than it was.

It's been one of those days—not bad, just busy, busy, busy. I came in early, and just scrambled solid until two thirty, until I could run out into drizzle, get some lunch and head to the gym. I did a slow heavy set at the bench press and at the chin up machine. There was a young man who was yo-yo-ing up and down on another chin up machine, and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'dude. Controlled movements. Going slower taxes your muscles more.' Of course, I didn't. But I wanted to.

Then I went into one of the group exercise rooms to do my assigned exercises. It was perfect—it has a rack of exercise balls, a tub of mats, and it was big and empty and practically dark. Of course, once I got started, a couple people came in. I did my exercises, they were hard, but I did them all. Wuhoo!

I now have a four day weekend. With two races! I need to shoehorn a 30K walk in there too, and I don't have a clue where that's going to go. Monday, I have jury duty. And so it goes.

Posted at December 29, 2004

Comments

A 30K walk? You just squeeze those in someplace? You people with your giant race/walk schedules just astound me. I train for a 5K race two months out and I'm happy if I can get that in and not be hobbling around two months after. If I had the number of races you people did, I'd be falling over (even more than I am!).

And I want to hear about jury duty too. If you can talk about it without going to jail or something.

Posted by: Jon in Michigan at December 30, 2004 7:50 AM

Yeah - what he said! Squeeze a 30-k walk into your weekend? That is real dedication. Happy New Year and have a great weekend!

Posted by: Fran at December 30, 2004 11:17 AM