still going strong!

Sunday

I woke up at 8 am ready to go for a walk/jog.  This is somewhat of a miracle.  My body wants my morning workouts!  So I put on my sweats and my trail running shoes and Cosmos and I headed out for a walk/jog around the lake.  It is about a 1/4 of a mile to the trail and 1.25 miles around the lake and then 1/4 of a mile home.  So total distance is about 1.75 miles.  My hope on the trail is that my body can get use to being on dirt so that the transition from the treadmill isn't difficult and also to challenge myself a bit.  I've been on the flat on the treadmill and the lake trail is rolling terrain.  I jogged most of the trail with walking sections thrown in.  Mostly I jogged for about 5 minute intervals and then walked.  We also worked on Cosmos' obedience both on and off leash.  We don't get out much and he gets very excited when we go for walks and tends to pull which whacks my neck and back out; thus, I challenged him to be very good on leash and off and he did well.  I hope to get out on the trail one day each weekend.

Saturday rest-day

Saturday was a rest day.  I started the day off too early by going to Bellevue Square.  My wireless router (made by apple) quit several weeks ago.  So I make a 9am appointment at the Apple store.  They were terrific.  They checked it out and gave me a new one. I set it up in the store just incase (since I brought my lap top with me).  Then I did some research on external hard drives.  My laptop hard drive is full of movies and music; thus I'm looking for an eternal drive system that will let me move all the media off the laptop.  I'm feeling very motivated to figure this out because I want to load Boot camp (which is a product that will let me run windows on my mac).  The Polar software only works on windows!  I'm also thinking I might need to talk Seujan out of a copy of her homemade workout spreadsheet...which would do the same thing!  I just need to start keeping track (better track than my blog).  I then went to Nordstrom.  I'm trying to go shopping at least 2x a month.  I did this in my Boeing days and it paid off.  The gig is to hit all the sale racks in my favorite departments at the Bon and Nordstroms.  I'm also hoping to hit Nordstrom rack and Ross as well.  I lucked out!  I got one dress shirt for 40% off and another for about 45% off.  I bought some slacks (not as good of a deal) but I was feeling a bit desperate for work slacks (that are washable); they were about 35% off but were still too expensive.  I made several other errands while I was out.  I finished the day by hemming a pair of pants with the sewing machine (this was the first time I didn't have to look up how to do a blind hem).  I then tried to thread the serger so that I could hem a pair of sweatpants with a coverstich.  No luck...I need to take another threading lesson from the sewing machine store!  My point of all this is...Why are rest days not truly rest days?

Spin Friday

Friday was a tough day on the spin bike.  I stayed on it for about 30-40 minutes and didn't worry about getting my heart rate up.  I felt like it was a miracle that I was out of bed at 5 am.  I drove to work because I wanted to go to Pacific Fabrics at Northgate to get some fabric to make a dressy jacket for work.  I found a beautiful purple wool fabric that is going to make a beautiful jacket.  The lining is adeptly called plumb.  I wouldn't normally line with silk, but it was so gorgeous and I'm going to use some of it for part of the collar; thus having the lining match I decided would be cool.  It will be an expensive jacket; but will be less than half what I'd expect it to sell for in readymade.  I finished the day off with dinner with Katie, Ted and Shi.  

Thursday Treadmill

Thursday was back to the treadmill.  I like the treadmill better than the spin bike.  I'm getting comfortable with jogging and found myself jogging along watching TV not even thinking about how long I was jogging.  I'm not overly disciplined as far as deciding how many jogging sets I'll do or how long or how long the walking is in between.  Pretty much I'm just enjoying being on the treadmill and noticing that the jogging is getting easier.  Thursday I was jogging along and all of a sudden realized that I had been jogging for a while.  So my body is adapting.