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today : 35 minutes. Time to dig up the heart rate monitor...
Fasting: 85 (WHOOHOO!)

gym entry.

I've gone Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday this week, mostly doing aerobics and stretching, Next week adding back in the weights, but this week was all about getting 2 to 2.5 miles in each workout.

It might just be in my head, but already I'm feeling warmer, and looser and far more content already. I know, why do I fall off the wagon?

Anyway, glad to continue the trend. One blood sugar low, 'cause I went at lunchtime, but otherwise, managing even not 1st thing in the morning fairly well.

I havent been to the gym in a dogs age. forever. I dont even want to go back and look how long its been. I finally hit a wall yesterday when I realized I was starting to hate myself again for being a fat lazy potatoe slug.

So I went to the gym after work.

Mainly to see if I could manage it.

Not so good, as it turns out, actually - tho I'd eaten a snack before, I had a bad blood sugar drop right after - not so bad, I'll drink chocolate milk! But I was so shakey that I managed to get chocolate milk all over my shirt, and sent a txt to the wrong place.

BUT the workout itself was awesome! I feel so much better now. I dont know if I have time tonite, but I think I'll try and go again. This weekend, going to go pick up a trainer for my mtn bike, so I can at least bicycle from home on my crazy early days. Definately going tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday as well.

In utter ridiculousness, I was playing Rock Band last night - just the bass part. I can do a lot of stuff on the bass in 'medium'. :)  Anyone play online? I tried it last weekend with byronium  and it was very stressful! plus some of the songs were STUPID hard. The stress part is when I play with the Array, its fine, just fun, even if we screw up. But with strangers, "oh gods, they see how awful I am!" 



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The answer to all "Why's?" tossed my way, Gayathri, so long as the
question makes no false presumptions, is always, "Because, I love you."

Actually, I love you anyway -
    The Universe

Dear Universe, I love you too!

Gym today: 1 mile, 11:30 minutes; 2 miles today, 23:45 minutes, various ups and downs on the pre-cor. I think I'm hitting a plateau with it, and am considering trying the stationary bike or the version with the arms. Yesterday, I walked a TON at some park in San Diego in the wrong shoes, and the day before walked a TON at Balboa Park in the wrong shoes and my feet HURT.

Speaking of San Diego, Prado at Balboa Park was _fantastic_! (mmm, my dessert was so amazing -- I had the Chocolate Souffle Cake, and you get two different cakes with that -- one a tiny baked alaska and the other a chocolate gooey oozy warm cake in the perfect size, perfect taste and textures.) and the Pacific Islander Festival on Sunday was great fun -- we got to see Samoan men dancing, beautiful girls from Fiji, Hawaii some tiny islands I'd never HEARD of performing... was great to spend the time with my friends in the sun.

horrah -- I did an 11 minute mile, and 11.5 minute mile and then couldnt manage more then a 12 minute mile! Its hard to concentrate on going that quick for me. But I got my 3 miles in under 35 minutes, which was the real goal. Did shoulders and stretched, tho tonite I'm going to try some yoga before bed to try and relax.

got up at 5:45 today, went to the gym -- a little bad because of asthma issues caused by cleaning my damn vacuum cleaner. Next time, pay the 20$ and have the shop do it, just not worth the aggravation!

anyway, 40 minutes on the pre-cor, 3 miles, drank a ton of water.
Shoulders: hand weights, hated looking at myself in the mirror.

Breakfast: too much cereal!
 wif chocolate soy milk

no tea

bah.
      

35 minutes, 30 in the zone, and I pushed it to keep the heart rate at the higher part of the zone. Gonna see if I can move it up a bit. Just did shoulders today, free weights, YAY! one of the things I really like about this gym is their great selection of free weights on both floors. I may ask for a personal trainer session to learn how to use them on the balance balls. I'm going to at least try some exercises on it next week.

hard to breathe today. Really muggy.

its raining today because I washed and cleaned my bike this weekend. There's oil leaking from 'somewhere' so I spent some quality time with nitrile gloves, degreaser and blue towels to clean off the bottom of the bike. P was nice enough to clean off the top of the bike, including all the bugs I picked up during Porterville. So nice of him! :)

The oil leak is from the crush washer, which is kind of a pain because I'll have to drop all the oil and replace the washer and put new oil in... I was bad, I didnt do that. I instead put more oil in the bike and P and I went for a short ride on sunday. :) Great fun, very little traffic because apparently everyone was at Laguna Seca. my bad was misjudging the time and I blew off my friends who were hosing a GP viewing party -- we got home just in time to watch it ourselves. DOH!

Ok. breakfast is finished -- I went to the gym this morning -- I couldnt find my heart rate monitor this morning, which is a pain in the butt -- its not on my desk so hopefully its upstairs in my messy bedroom.
30 minutes on the pre-cor, 2.2 miles.
Chest: Flyes: 25 lbs, 3 sets, 12 reps
incline press: 30 lbs, 3 sets, 12 reps
shoulder press: 30 lbs, 3 sets, 12 reps

   

40 minutes, 33 in the zone, more because I kept going over. I had a lot of aggravation to work out today.

Back: lat pulldowns: 40 lbs, 5 sets, 12 reps
row: 60 lbs, 5 sets, 12 reps

Breakfast: cereal with soy milk
Fasting BG: 131 (hrm, too many carbs last night? I had dosa for dinner, sorta over carby)

    off to make some tea before meeting.

for some reason I couldnt sleep last night, and then this morning, couldnt wake up. I missed going to the gym due to completely sleeping through my alarm. Everytime I woke up and did something, I'd start falling back asleep!

Blood sugars are good, I didnt eat much for breakfast.

pre sleep: 103
fasting: 93

(edited to change potatoe to banananananananana)