post my valorous, audacious episodes at the gym.

I will not have a gym in NH, so for at least 3 months, thats it. WHen I go to Florida, perhaps I will re-adopt this goal….

since I have been valorous or audacious at the gym, but today I managed it.

i did the ellipitical for 30 min…not too bad, but golly how can it be more boring than a treadmill? It was not too hard.

I then rode the laz-e-boy exersise bike (recumbent) for 10 min.

I then did some weights.
None of this is valorous, but the fact that I used the hack squat machine sans trainer for the first time…is valorous. I was terrified that I’d drop the machine or injure myself, nope.
So I’m just a squatter….and that was valorous for me.

borrowed from my Blog, because I can’t retype it.
Today was a historic day at the gym for me….

I made myself cry without the trainer at the gym today.

I can barely believe this. In a way, I suppose it’s a breakthrough, but I’m not particularly sure.

his morning, I had a good breakfast and a nice amount of coffee, and water and felt really ready to go to the gym. A bonus this week is that I found a bunch of singlets on sale at Marshalls, and while they aren’t top quality Nike or new balance, they are low end New Balance and Nike, so they are lots of fun to try out.

Today was NB day. This singlet has pockets in the back like a bike jersey but smaller…big enough to hold GU and an Ipod though, so I am thinking it may become my racing shirt. The shirt worked quite well, I, on the other hand….

I noted walking into the gym that I was feeling just the smallest bit sore in the hips and quads, and lower legs…essentially all over…I stretched a bit and put on my shoes, and ignored the lingering soreness.

I ran. 3.2 miles with some varying elevation. I followed havybeaks suggestions of doing a few intervals. I was shocked to find that the difference between 5.4 miles per hour and 5.7 was negligible, but bump it to 6.0 (a mere ten min mile) and I could barely keep on pace…6.5 and I was struggling. I sopped at 3.2, apparently my password to the 4 mile club is still in the making. I did feel better today again running, things seem to be coming back.

Post run, I was feeling a little winded and tired. So I stood on the wobble board. I did wobble board squats while listening to the Grateful Dead’s Lady with a Fan i love this song, it may just be my favorite thing ever, it brings back lots of different memories, so I just let them sort of wash over me as I balanced.

After this Crunches. About 50. These were not good and I did not enjoy them. I then forced myself to do the quad extensions. i had about 25 pounds of weight on each leg, and it was just terrible. It was horrid. I did it, but at the very end, was when the historic tear was shed. I pretended it was sweat, but…I think the expression on my face was enough. After all this, I just quit. I was going to go swim, but I had timed it wrong. The army of water aerobics ladies were doing basic training. So I just went and got my hair cut.

tomorro I have a training session. My legs still hurt all over.

I am astounded that I could make myself cry. I’m used to the feeling, as Trainer Boy does it to me occasionally. But to myself… alone?

more than valorous…

40 mins jogging on the treadmill
10 min on elliptical
15 min swimming
50 crunches
1 set of 3 planks 30 sec long.

I tried to convince myself to lift weights, but I couldn’t.

I had a good day at the gym.

3.2 miles
weights with TB…squats lunges, more squats, calf raises. I actually utterred the phrase “I want some more” multiple times in the workout. It wasn’t bad. I felt valorous and brave…
then 10 min of doing squats on the wobble board…
and 15 min of swimming…
better.
TB stated that I was finally not nearly as winded as I had been over the past month. So, I suppose I’m “coming back” finally. I did finally feel more like “myself” than i have in a while.

Today I was valorous, and maybe audacious.
ran 3.1 miles…
bike on the stationary bike for about 10 min…
then with trainer boy…I did 40 min of abs. I never left the mat. I actually got dizzy, then seasick. it was a good workout. tomorro my stomach is going to kill me…

The run part sorta sucked, but…otherwise, it was alright.

TB waved at me as I came in. The he sort of scowled…I think it was because I had the Gatorade juice box. I was out of GU and the only thing I had was Gatorade Juice box.

I ran and hated it. I lifted weights and didn’t really enjoy it. I swam and quit. But I had a good convo with TB. It seems if my times get a bit faster I may be sponsered by a “brand” (more on this later) so we discussed this, and in general had just a good talk. He explained that we would start to work on speed only if I do not pinch any fat pieces on me until the end of February. (I think hes hoping by the end of Feb there won’t be any fat to pinch…) It’s our deal apparently. As I noted before, he told me he’s impressed at my new found no complaining, and told me to go ahead and make him a CD of runnin reggae. I’m feeling good, and just wish my run had been better….He also said he thought he had some sample packs of Powerbar gel hanging around his house and he would give them to me, but I imagine he forgets. He is a little bit of a forgetter..but I still like him a little.

Edited to add that the gym gave out Carnations today for Valentines day. It was the only flower I got, but I sort of wished they had spent the cash on some sort of gym improvement, like getting calipers for the trainers, rather than that stupid OMRON fat measurer which is not very accurate….

my swimsuit at the gym today and that doesn’t feel audacious at all, just stupid.

It will be gone by tomorro and drats, because I rather liked this one.

The gym was not too much fun today. I am still thinking a lot about yesterdays hard day at work, so I am hoping that was the issue.

Ran: 4.05 miles and then got off the treadmill, drank some gatorade, and lifted some weights. The got back on the treadmill to run 1.32 more mile….

so I had acutally wanted to do six miles today and since I couldn;t quite get it together to do that.
I ellipiticalled for one more mile…

then more weights (detailed in a different entry)

then swimming for 25 min. Swimming was a bit distrubed by a woman who needed to share my lane, but instead of asking she just sort of sat at the head of the lane for a while doing exotic looking arm stretches. Eventually she asked and of course I said yes.. I wish she had just asked, because the exotic stuff was distracting to me!

Added it up, about 800 calories fried. Minus the gatorade….

I forgot my regular running socks at the gym and found I was wearing my “Hello Kitty” socks. I had to run in them and lift in them. Oh I felt not very smart and also a little goofy looking.

Still, I survived.

more exciting than others. Today was about a 1/10 on a 1-10 excitement scale.

I ran, I ellipiticaled, and lifted weights, and I swam.

Only good thing, was that I was right beside the mirror on the ellipitical, and I felt like I looked fairly OK for once. My weight is coming back down, which I like.
But, Saturday was very crowded, and I didn’t like it. Still, they were playing Squeeze on the radio, so that was alright.