Day 42

Pump it up, man!

The good news from this morning was that the soreness level in my legs was considerably lower than even last night. The bad news was that my legs were incredibly stiff. Stretching and massaging relieved it for about 5 minutes, but then the stiffness came back with a vengeance. Needless to say, I skipped my morning gym run. Walking around this morning was difficult enough.

The other good news from this morning was my weight. I know last week I fell through a personal milestone. As we all know weight can fluctuate by a couple of pounds each day depending on how much we ate, fluid levels, etc. After falling through the milestone I went back above it, then hung right at it for a few days, and fell through it again this morning. This to me indicates a trend is forming. This is good news indeed.

I know that some people can lose weight quickly, but my problem is that I have a voracious appetite. I always have, even during my unexplained 40-pound weight drop in the winter of 1989/1990. I have made strides in changing my dietary intake, which has helped start what is a downward trend. And even though I'm not losing weight very fast, my clothing is starting to fit better and some of my clothing is even a little too big now. Yay me!

My legs loosened up enough for me to hit my evening workout. I needed to get back in there or else this was going to turn into another wasted effort. My warm up on the treadmill revealed much tightness in my hamstrings and much soreness in my gracilis muscles. My walking stride on the treadmill is slightly faster than my comfortable fast stride, which probably is the biggest reason for the soreness. I made it through ok, but it wasn't exactly fun.

I worked on my back... I hope I can stand upright when I wake up in the morning.

Wow, I'm looking at what I just wrote and realized that this entry has become a workout journal. That's ok, I was pretty much intellectually void today. I even avoided politics as I pretty much glossed over the headlines in my daily reading list and didn't even bother with reading the articles themselves. I just pretty much kept my mind on the more mundane tasks of the day and trying to figure out some of the finer points of taking a self portrait using the remote shooting function of my camera software.

At any rate, I need to call it a night as it's late here and I need to get up early again. To my faithful and not-so-faithful readers, I bid you sleep well.