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July 17, 2007
Last full day in Seattle
Since my last couple of runs have been less than enjoyable, I was kind of relieved to wake up and remember that today was a cross-training day. I walked about 7 minutes to the downtown Seattle Athletic Club, where I knew I could get a guest pass, and worked out there. They had newer models of Precor ellipticals than I had seen before--and the old ones seemed kind of creaky--so I tried one. It felt different but I was definitely working really hard. So hard, in fact, that I decided to bike after a half hour on that machine instead of doing closer to an hour and then switching to the bike. They had good stationary bikes so I did an interval workout, making it up as I went along.
When I was done working out, I lifted, including some of my PT exercises like step-downs (which I still am horrible at) and one-legged trampoline ball throws (I couldn't believe they had a trampoline set up for this, but they did!). I wanted to get back to the hotel and start our day at a somewhat reasonable hour, so I didn't get through my whole lifting routine, but it was good to do some of it.
Matt and I spent the morning and early afternoon sitting outside by the water reading. It drizzled on and off so we eventually went under the overhang of the new sculpture garden building (part of the Seattle Art Museum). Later in the afternoon, we took a ferry to Bainbridge Island, which is to the west of Seattle and mostly residential but with a cute "main" street. I got homemade pink grapefruit sorbet at this cute ice cream/sorbet place and it was awesome.
Tonight we met our friends who stayed with us last week while they were visiting DC for a Seattle Mariners game. Incidentally, they were playing the Baltimore Orioles. The Os won and a good time was had by all. I was especially excited because it was actually pretty chilly once the sun went down. It doesn't take much more than cool weather to impress me!
Posted by becky at July 17, 2007 10:55 PM