is it next week yet?

i think so! since i last signed on i have been to washington dc, omaha, louisville, and a few places in between. i have had many, many adventures and apparently found none of them blogworthy. you know how it goes, every little thing that i thought,
"oh! i should put that on the blog!" never seemed good enough for the long anticipated return to the blogosphere.

that is, until i was working one afternoon at leo, and by working i mean eating a jimmy john's and emailing molly while watching glee and the store, and molly's response to my email about the previous evening's exercise was that i should post it to my blog. now, i may need to rename the blog "emails to molly" cause that's how the rest are going to be written. in any case, here's what i have to say about my ongoing adventures in exercise:

two years ago i signed up for a swim clinic at the y and drug 2 of my girlfriends there for 6 consecutive 7am saturday morning sessions. only one of us thought the adventure was memorable in a good way.

now that i think about it, swimming is one of the reasons i started running again...i reasoned that there was nothing worse than the anaerobics of swimming and i was right. that's probably why i don't feel like i'm gonna die or suffocate when i run...my face isn't buried in water! i can totally breathe whenever i want!

pretty bad exercise theory to do something that doesn't let me breathe just to make running seem easier, but hey, it worked!

our workout was great. we left the house, walked for 10 minutes and jogged for another 10 minutes exactly and that got us to the y.

the swimming was depressing. i mean, really, a speedo? do i seem like that much of a masochist to you? i am. i swam a little under 15 minutes with plenty of breaks. after my nice hot shower, i put on the running clothes, and in an effort to stay warm and get home quickly, jogged the 14 minutes to the main and mitchell intersection.

i don't know why, but it was so, so easy to jog home! i think i was warmed up (muscularly) and after being in the pool you really appreciate even those gaspy jogging breaths.

oh, and in other irrational exercise plans, i realized i walk so fast it hurts more than running, so it's usually a relief to just start jogging! at least when i jog i use my quads and butt more. i think i walk with just my shins and hips...or at least that's how it BURNS.

your little psycho,

lisa c