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I accept your challenge, day 1!
This morning I went to the gym. It felt SO good! I enoyed every moment! I was there for an hour and a half. I touched on each of the three challenges presented to me thus far.
1. running: my timed mile this morning was 11 minutes 42 seconds. My goal for 4 weeks from now is to do a 10 minute mile without touching the treadmill handle bars. Today I touched them every once in a while and I hated having to, but I did. I wound up doing two miles this morning in 27 minutes. I speed walked the second mile. I burned about 300 calories.
2. biking: I used the incumbent bike this morning after the treadmill. I did 5 miles in 20 minutes. I ranged my speed and resistance throughout the bike ride. I burned about 200 calories.
3. music: i have not yet bought a pair of iShoes, I hope to, but I have to wait for a pay check. It’s not in the budget at this point. But I was asked to by one of my challengers to show my play list for work outs. I seriously am lacking in this department. I need workout music…deseperately. I started out hooking up to the treadmill and watching the Today Show, but then that ended and I turned on my iPod. At the point I turned my iPod on, the song over the loud speaker in the gym was “Dancing Queen” the first song that started playing just because the iPod didn’t know what to play so it started at the top of my play list was “Dancing Queen”…freeeeeakyyyyyy!!! I soon changed it though. That’s hardly workout tunes. I settled today for Billy Joel which is hardly workout music either, but I love working out to the song “Pressure”…I get so motivated hearing that song.
So a productive day. I came home, weighed myself before sowering and was 2 pounds less than yesterday morning. 14 pounds to my goal for Hawaii. But I haven’t eaten for the day, so that could be why.
As reward I get to go visit little Lexi and the proud new parents!!!
Tonight we go to the Walking with Dinosaurs at Madison Square Garden…I’m sure the memory card will be full of pictures tonight.
Edited to add…If your ust tuning in I posted this earier this afternoon, and I guess I was in a rush to go visit baby Lexi because I realized on my way down that I totally neglected the main point to this post. Kidney stones! Ok, no, I didn’t pass any more. After the gym this morning I went to the car wash right in the same shopping center. I decided to get the “express interior” package. Note t self: when they say express, they don’t actually mean less than 10 minutes. I gave them my car, and sat on the sidelines waiting. When I finally had my car back, thing were out of place. I have this little cubby hole for my Purell and my blistex. In that little cubbie was a rolled up piece of tissue. In that piece of rolled up piece of tissue were these:
Well, not the pea (that was just for size reference when I took the picture), but my kidney stones from last year around this time of year. I just never took them out of my car after showing them to the stunned urologist at my appointment. Well, today, they are no longer in my possession. They have gone to the big car wash vaccuum heaven in the sky. That’s right…those turds who “express interior” cleaned my car, THREW OUT MY KIDNEY STONES!!! I am beyond upset!!! I know they hold no value, but darn it, I PASSED THEM ON MY OWN…and that’s a feat in and of itself!!! Oh well, I can think of worse things, but still…they were mine and I can’t believe those turds at the car was threw them out!
OMG, OMG dying lol lol I remember those pictures plain as day and would you believe I really thought the “green” one was “one-of-them”! Ugh, it’s a pea! Doy! lol Good one, lovin’ it~
Oh, you are sooo good at the mile! I have to run mine at the end of the week, so I’ll let you know how I did. The goal I gave myself was 10 minutes as well!
I actually grabbed my who-ha when I saw those kidney stones! OUCH!!!
OMG I am now *terrified* of kidney stones. But I am also giggling, remembering the episode of Friends when Phoebe was having the triplets & going was passing kidney stones.