Today started as a truly amazing day! My wife and I did a jog through our neighborhood totalling 2.9 miles. That kicks ass! There were some hills and we were not fast with it, we averaged 13:30 a mile, but heck it was 2.9 miles. I was holding back in the beginning since I knew I wanted us to go the distance. On the route we took there is a place that is the point of no return. Once we get there, we have done over 2 miles and there is no shorter way home. We just need to tackle the 2 bigger hills then the not visible but surely felt smaller hills. The day sure did start great.
Today was also the first day for me at the new temporary job site. It was better than I thought it would be. I had plenty of up and down on 8 foot ladders, there was lifting and moving boxes and reaching and stretching. Work was a total body workout. I got home and was stiff and sore. Enough so for me to take 2 Advil. I can’t remember the last time work got me like that. I also did something good for me after work too. I went to the new local 24 hour gym (minutes from my house) and signed up for 20 a month to month membership that is 20 dollars a month. I have a Bally’s membership already, and the bally’s facility blows this one away, but the Bally’s only opens at 5am and that does not give me enough time in the morning to exercise (if the weather is bad and I am not jogging outside), get home, shower, eat and be ready to go at 6:15 am. At this new place I can get an hour in of cardio and be home by 5:15 am. I don’t really plan to go there more than 3-6 times a month, but the weather will dictate how often I will actually be there. The duration of the project will too. I met a new piece of cardio equipment today. It is an elliptical trainer that allows for varying strides from an almost up and down as a stair stepper to a full stretched out stride like you were sprinting and everything in-between. It is by Precor. I tried out the elliptical machine right after I joined the gym. I figured since I was there I should try to get some time in. WOW this machine worked me! I was changing my strides from stepper to jog to sprint to stepper and so on. My leg muscles were burning after only 4 minutes. The jog this morning and the ladder work today could have been a contributor to the muscle feeling, but the range of motion was something else. I did not look around the gym at all. I was too focused on getting some time in. next time when I go I will look around and see what all they have.
My eating today was good. On this construction site food is not allowed in the building. You need to go to your car to eat, and I was told there was no eating in the parking garage. Weird. I will wait to be told to stop eating IN MY CAR before I believe that one. We do not have a construction trailer to go to. It is our cars or nothing at all. At lunch you can leave to go out and eat but who wants to spend money like that when you can pack great healthy meals yourself? I ate breakfast at home, had a yogurt in my car once I got there, had a banana and a special K bar for break, a chicken breast sandwich with baby carrots on the side for lunch, an apple and orange for afternoon break, and a salad with chicken breast, black beans, corn, portobello mushrooms and tomato sauce. I even had some dessert, an orange, 1 scoop of peanut butter, a pretzel rod and some reduced fat kettle chips (I know they are still evil but I had to have some). I still had my calories for the day be where I need them to be, I was at 2,150 calories.
I can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring!
