Week 1, Day 1
Extremely boring technical note: I spent a truly ridiculous amount of time tonight upgrading my WordPress installation, which was approximately 9,079 generations out of date. The last time I upgraded,...
View ArticleWeek 1, Day 2, plus some music stuff
Music stuff first: So it’s a little less than three months from (!) the end of the ’00s, a time when all good obsessive list-makers start thinking about their best of the decade. I’ve already had a few...
View ArticleWeek 1, Day 3, or I Exercised on a Saturday
(Before I get to the exercise stuff, I would like to mention that I am watching the playoffs, and I’m deeply disgusted that the Cardinals—one of only two National League teams that I like/root for/care...
View ArticleWeek 2, Day 1
I had a million reasons not to exercise tonight…or at least a few: I spent about an hour and a half raking leaves yesterday (Bill did the lion’s share of the work, but I did quite a bit too), and my...
View ArticleWeek 2, Day 3
As predicted, my legs were aching on Thursday, and even worse yesterday. It’s not just my quads that feel it, but the muscles in the front of my thighs (that would be the rectus femoris, and yes, I did...
View ArticleWeek 3, Day 1, plus the first 5
Day 1 of week 3 was a whole ‘nother level of hard, I have to say. There wasn’t any point during the workout when I thought I would have to stop, but I was watching the clock during both of the longer...
View ArticleA little off track, but not derailed
I did get through day 2 of week 3 last week, but it was dispiriting enough that I didn’t feel like writing about it. It was dispiriting because it was so hard, and I felt utterly pathetic that I can...
View ArticleStill slogging through jogging; just not doing much blogging
(And for that subject line, I probably deserve a flogging.) I’m debating between one more day of week 4 and starting on day 1 of week 5 of the Couch-to-5K program tonight. I didn’t manage the expected...
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