Concrete

I have been sore in the neck for the last two days- I think it may be because the jogging on Wednesday really was the first time I've jogged that distance on concrete. The fault couldn't be in my brand new Payless shoes...
I made plans with my future trainer, Maria, to meet every Monday at 7:30. Hopefully concretizing the plans will make it more definite that I'll stick to the regular exercise. In the meantime, I just want to lay down my aching spine and sleep for a hundred years.

cool runnings

ran in central park today, 2 miles, yeah baby! My first of many runs along this route, hopefully. It was frightfully cold, at 41 degrees and windy, my least favorite weather, but I had a date to run so that kept me honest. I mentioned to my running date my theory of thinking motivation- or more appropriately my usage of fantasizing to up my heart rate to match the speed my legs need to go. He laughingly called it my porno motivation. Hmpfh. Let's see how many fantasies he features in now!
So a little sore, but feel good to have done it, and certainly the most so far.

Confessions

Long day today, filming and editing all day, so no workout for me, but looking forward to running in the park tomorrow, knock on thermometer. I cheated on my no-sugar diet. I had a bite-sized twix. ok ok ok, did I mention it was a long day? I paid for it though, my pulse raced so fast while I sat there and edited that I had to turn the volume up on the speakers to hear over the rush in my ears. Yay coronary attack.

Break on through

Saturday I helped my good friend Jai take down her wall, which was no easy feat, no matter what you might see above. The actual tearing down was great, kicking down plaster and feeling very mighty indeed; but the aftermath of breaking down wall chunks into wallbits small enough to bag was less mighty and more meticulous. Nevertheless, that by far my workout for the day, nay for the weekend. I slummed it on Sunday, sleeping late and watching a movie with a beautiful boy. I attempted to workout on Monday on the Lifecycle, but I disturbed my roommates, GEEZ, who complained they couldn't sleep through the beeping of the machine at 1am. What kind of moron tries to workout at 1am?

Bring it

Just to prove that the doldrums don't rule my life, they simply sway all the elections, I DID run today, 1 mile up hill. 15 minutes including walking for warm-up. I also did minimal arms and legs, and sat in the steam room with all my clothes on. I slept relatively late, and had a hard time waking up even while running, but I have high hopes for good times tonight, so I am waking up in spurts. When I was running, at about .75 mile I started to really slow down, and felt too tired to keep going. But then my mind wandered away from the mirror reflection, past the 40 blaring TV screens and even dodged the piped 80s classics to settle on the image of curls- curls hanging like babylon, looping around nibblest ears, curls under and through my fingertips. The curls of the fella I'm seeing tonight, though the prospect of touching curls is far off, considering our past. But the curls floated in front of me, and before I knew it I was bumping against the treadmill bar, running too fast for the rotating ground beneath me. I punched in a higher speed, and ran the rest of the mile catching my legs up to my skippin heartbeat. I felt guilty only for a second; so my runner's high is passion. Big surprise. I look forward to a motivating evening.

So I picked up a hammer and Saw

I spent the day building sets for a kids' musical, all day, 9am-5pm day. A lot of lifting wood, walking in the bitter cold and breathing in paint. When I got home I was beat, but proded myself to do a least 10 minutes on the Lifecycle. I had punched in 20min, but after 10mins I could tell I'd never make it. I thought maybe I was just being lazy, but half an hour later when I hit the sack, I passed out immediately. No insomnia= genuinely wiped out. I hope to actually go to the gym tomorrow on Good Friday, but since I'm still fighting this sinus, I don't know if I'm going to want to make the trip. I'm also seeing a friend from out of town tonight, which unfortunately deters me from going to the gym, wanting to ration my limited energy for later. To be lazy, or not to be, that is the question.

rain on my footlight parade

ok, ok, I can at least blame today's lack of activity on the weather. I mean, come on, when April Showers are showering all day long, and your nose picks up the cue and drips too, would you go running in the sludge? I think not. But in the spirit of social solidarity I am going to see my friend's show tonight- the DARE project - which is getting me outside the house at least. And tomorrow will be a non-stop fun filled day of set building, so there's that.
Hard not to feel sluggish when you've been inside all day though.