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Saturday, April 17, 2004
Morning walk and worked on my pecs
Pinch me I must be dreaming!Man, it's a beautiful day. I don't know if I can handle all this much warm sunny weather all the sudden. Going from months of cold, dreary weather to 75 and sunny is a real shock on the system. Isn't it funny! I would complain and complain about the horrible weather all winter and now that it's nice I'm complaining even more. I really need to learn to be more thankful.
Well today started out really well. I walked instead of running. My girlfriend and I walked a local trail in the morning. It was an old abandoned railroad. The park district converted I believe something like 13 miles of the railroad into a paved pathway. It's very well maintained and great to walk on. It's much better than walking around the block or using a treadmill because of the changing scenery. It starts out in the middle of town with all the homes and industry and go out into the country with open fields, woods, etc. Of course being early spring the trees are still just budding and not much wildlife is out and about yet. However, it's still great to use.
I'm not too sure how far we went but we walked for about an hour and a half so I figure we did something like 4 or 5 miles. We got finished just in time too. When we started there was nary a soul to be seen but as we were getting done lots of people on bikes started coming by. I definitely don't hurt as much as I did from running that's for sure, although my right knee is killing me. It's the family curse I guess since my father always complains about his right knee too.
Anyhoo, we went out to eat at Bob Evans. I had their sausage and cheese omelette, home fries, wheat toast and cranberry-grape juice. I was good though and just ate a little of my home fries since I'm trying to cut back on excess carbs. Plus I didn't eat the crust of my wheat toast just so it would be that much less carbs. But I have a fondness for bread that I'll never get rid off.
I took some Advil for the pain then took an hour nap when I got home then I did my exercises for my pecs. I did one set of ten reps of pushups and chest flys. I know it's not much but I'm just looking to tone not bulk up. Plus this is my first week so I'm just taking it ease my body into the idea of working out.
Now I just have to find something to do for rest of this great day that doesn't involve that dreaded word "work".
on 04/17/2004 at 02:52 PM