Random Musing: I'm feeling a tad old today. I woke up at 5:40 a.m. and just stayed up. Not sure what woke me up (although my bladder was in on it), but going back to sleep just wasn't going to happen. Sadly, it didn't really bother me and I enjoyed the quiet of the house for 90 minutes or so. That's what I mean about being old:) Oh yeah and my daughter turns 10 tomorrow, which isn't helping my feelings of aging either. Love her bunches and can't believe it's been 10 years already.
On a totally random note, my stat tracking for this blog says I had 28 hits from teh Netherlands yesterday. I wonder what sort of keyword search brough them here
Exercise update: I woke up with a little foot stiffness today which was disconcerting. But I haven't been icing or taking any ibuprofen, so maybe I need to think a little bit prophylactically rather than waiting and reacting to owies.
Anyway it loosened up so I could complete the 30 minutes of cross training my schedule showed. Today I chose to do 30 minutes on a StairMaster, a machine I haven't used much for years. It seems like a good idea with those Soldier Field steps as part of the Urbanathlon. It was a pretty good workout although I didn't get my heart rate real high.
In addition to those 30 minutes, I spent some time working on upper body strength training. Today's new addition was the pull-up machine. I'd never used it before, but it is basically a set up that allows guys who can't do very many pull-ups of their body weight to do pull-ups with a selected amount of support to lighten the load. It was nice because even though I wasn't moving my whole weight, I was getting in 3 real sets of pull-ups. Hopefully, my strength and my weight will meet in the middle some day and I won't need an assist, but for now this is great.
My Fitbit tells me I wasn't very active the rest of my day. I'll live with that I guess. I'm sort of tired. I'm also a little bummed that I seem to have stopped swimming and biking since the triathlon. training for the Urbanathlon seems less balanced. It is getting me to do some strength training, so I can't complain too much. I'm hoping to hook back up with my trainer in September and I'm sure she'll get some strength work in too, usually more than I want:)
Nutrition update: I feel like I need to really focus on some weight loss with my diet, but today wasn't really a step in that direction. It's not that I pigged out or anything, I just gave in to one of my all-time favorite treats. Anne brought home frosted molasses cookies and somehow over the course of the day, 3 of them have entered my digestive track. One of the yummiest foods on the planet, but not really made for trimming down my frame. Room for growth I guess.
Just a stretch and strengthen day tomorrow, which is good because my whole day will be dominated with staff meetings as everyone comes back to campus. Enjoy the amazing weather everyone.
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