Today I learned that the gym is pretty dead at 7 am on Friday. I got
a treadmill immediately and run 17 minutes and spent the rest of the
45 minutes walking between 3.7 and 4 mph. There are a bunch of army
guys lifting weights and I felt bad for the littlest army guy of them,
though they didn't seem to be picking on him. Indeed, there was a lot
of butt pats.

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So i have been going to the gym 4 days a week and think I may need to
increase that, if only for one reason. On days when I dont go, all I
want to do is eat. And eat I do, often in Matt-like quantities. I
also have no resistance to foods that are bad for me. I ate a
snickers today (I blame Destrago for this because he was talking about
them last night). Uff. Tomorrow I run 17.5 minutes. I am hoping I
sleep well tonight.

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I ran for 15 minutes on the treadmill and the walked another 20
minutes at 4 mph. Why is it that I feel like I could walk forever at
4 mph but 15 minutes of running at 5 mph is exhausting? I think I am
going to pick up a dynadisc so I can do a strength session on the
weekend. Last night I impressed the boy with my biceps of steel. I
also went and bought some running shorts on clearance at REI. They
look really goofy, but are much more comfortable than pants or
capris. Today, I did learn that a breakfast of bacon and whole milk
was not the best idea before working out. Then again, the boy ate a
turkey burger and then biked ten miles to work.

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I did my strength training workout today and noticed that my balance
has already majorly improved. I have also noticed that I am more
committed to working out then perhaps I have ever been before. If I
am going to miss one, I will find a way to make it up. I think I
experienced my first real runners high yesterday. After running in
the morning, I felt great all day. Then again, yesterday was the
warmest day we have had for awhile. My plan of trying to get going in
the morning without caffeine seems to be going well, though this
morning I was so out of it that I put my sportsbra on over my regular
one and didn't notice until I got changed.

If anyone would like to come to my house and tell Mr. Prancy Pants to
stop getting hyper and barking at the cat in the middle of the night,
I would appreciate it. (and that's his nickname bc he seriously
prances).

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I ran 1.25 miles today. Straight. In 14 minutes. It was the first
time I didn't feel like I had to summon all of my mental energy to
push myself to the end, which was great. I picked up "running for
mortals," which is basic but very very encouraging.

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I ran 10 minutes, then walked some, then another 5, averaging about
5.7 mph. Yesterday I wasn't able to get to the gym so I did that
workout today. For some reason, on days that I dont workout I want to
eat everything in sight (like last night's mashed potatoes), but days
that I work out, I am much less hungry. I do, however, kinda want to
make mac and cheese tonight, so maybe my observation is incorrect.

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Today I did 2 sets of the strength training routine with the same amount of weights as before. I have worked up to being able to balance on the upside-down Bosu on 1 leg for 15 seconds at a time, which I was very very happy with.

Since that is about all that I have workout-wise, I will share a story from a few days ago concerning something I witnessed at the gym. I saw a guy on one of the stationary bikes who I wanted to yell at on behalf of his knees. I was on a treadmill and good be nosy and look at the settings on his bike, which I did, because I am in fact nosy. He had the resistance turned up really really high and was pedaling at about 60 rpm. He also had the seat set too high, so he would first jerk his entire body to the left, and then the right in his "ride." I can not convey just how funny this looked, but I finally figured out a good comparison -- it looked like a full body dance version of the head bob in SNL's "What is love, Baby don't hurt me no more" Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan sketch. What made this worse is that the guy would talk to several women who passed him and he totally had the same type "oh hey what's going on, oh yeah, i'm just working my hammies" type vibe.