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August 24, 2006
Feeling pretty strong, at least in the gym
It's been nice to be able to mix up my workouts this week and wake up knowing that I don't have to swim every day--I have a choice in the matter! Not that I don't enjoy swimming. It's just that I don't enjoy being banished to the pool. So this morning I went to the gym to elliptical. I like a lot of things about the gym at Georgetown: the location (a 5 minute walk from my office), the fact that they have a pool, the hours, etc. But I don't like the fact that they have 5 TVs up on the wall all tuned to some MTV-U station. I would like to at least be able to read the CNN news crawl! It's also quite hot in there at all times.
But I shouldn't complain. I had my iPod and I was tooling away on the elliptical for an hour. My feet started tingling at about the 20 minute mark and I tried everything I could think of (wiggling my toes, changing my foot plant) to try and make it go away, but nothing helped. I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one with this problem, however. Luckily it is something that I can deal with. I worked really hard today and I was pretty tired when I was done--it felt great.
Work went by quickly today. A colleague and I were walking back from lunch and she took me to meet someone in the cancer center, where she works. That person mentioned that some of the student-athletes were sponsoring a fun day for the pediatric patients so we went up to see it. I think I wrote here about my fear of clowns (i.e. the one in Wellesley at the Boston Marathon). Well, that aversion extends to anything dressed up in a costume. Both the Washington Wizards and the Washington Nationals mascots were there at this event. I controlled myself but I really couldn't stay. I'm such a dork! But I like to laugh at myself.
I tried some new stuff when I was lifting today. I read an article in Triathlete magazine when I was at Barb's office last month and it has a very detailed lifting plan. I'm not a triathlete, but I train like one and I've been doing the same lifting for years so I will incorporate some of this stuff to spice up my old routine. Speaking of muscles, I wore a dress to work today that I hadn't put on in a couple of years and my back/shoulders were like busting out! I don't think I've changed that much in terms of upper body strength, but maybe it's temporary because of the swimming.
My (late) dinner is calling, so off I go...
Posted by becky at August 24, 2006 9:00 PM