Lance Armstrong Should Lose

Once upon a time, I liked Lance Armstrong. Liked him as a person that I really know nothing about other than through his book It's Not About the Bike. I admired his grace, dignity, fight spirit, sense of teamwork, love for his family...

When he retired, I silently wished him well and hoped he would be unique among today's athletes...that he wouldn't stage a "come back."

Then he went and shot all my admiration to hell. Four years after retiring, he returned to racing. He was cocky saying something to the effect of "this will be easy!" As if returning to racing was bad enough, he had to be big-headed about it.

*sighs*

So, I'm left with evil thoughts: I want him to lose. My biggest question is how badly should he lose? Which is worse, losing by a fraction of a second or crashing out? Also, I'm devilishly gleeful that he ate crow in public saying his comeback is a lot harder than he expected.

Lance, you had your glory. You had your more than 15 minutes of fame. Give over to the men that have been fighting, training, and bleeding for the past four years.

Rearranged

I moved some stuff around in my apartment over the past week. This makes it easier for me to actually USE my sewing machine. This means, sewing projects should start to make an appearance again.

YAY!

Hope everyone had a lovely 4th!!

Pool: 1200 yd/30 min

8 x swim 50 free / 50 breast
4 x kick 50 free / 50 breast

There should be a 8 x pull 50 free / 50 breast in there. I was tired by the end of the kick. I'd forgotten how exhausting kick work is. Meh.

After Saturday's C25K session, Sunday's swim was nice. Monday I was exhausted. I couldn't even think of doing Week 1 - Day 2 of C25K. Tuesday, I walked at lunch to (sort of) make up for the lack of running. Then I did my swim that evening.

I won't be going to the gym today. I have to clean my apartment. There's dog toy stuffing everywhere, I have two loads of dishes to wash, two loads of laundry, and I've got enough scattered on every horizontal surface to make me insane. I'll get my exercise by running up and down the stairs every 10 minutes. Meh.

Long, long day

Yesterday was crazy busy. I don't like being super busy on Sundays, usually. I like to take naps and watch tv and basically sprawl on the couch for 16 hours then sleep for 8.

Not yesterday. Yesterday was packed full of the dog park, breakfast, the gym, shopping, cooking, and laundry. It's been awhile since I'd spent Sunday shopping and cooking for the week. I made California Roll Salad, radish dip, tuna salad, sweet tea hard boiled eggs, and marinated chicken breast using the sauce from this tofu recipe.

I would have made salmon patties but I boiled all the eggs. *facepalms* I'll have to go to the store to pick up 1/2 dozen eggs. There's something else on my list that I remembered while cooking; but I've since forgotten.

By 9:30 last night, I was wiped. My grilled cheese sandwich turned into cheese toast. I'm not sure what went wrong, but that was the saddest looking mess I've ever seen. I was asleep by 15 after 10. I was that tired. Felt good to be busy and tired like that, though.

Back on the treadmill

I'm attempting Couch to 5K...again. This is the third time. If it doesn't stick this time, I'm calling it good. I'll just improve my walking speed and time. Here's to hoping I actually can get past running for 3 minutes.

Hello, My Name is.....

Jackie Chan!

I run across tables, skip across chairs, and take on dogs four times my size!

Michael Jordan

I dunk with the best of them...and sticking my tongue out helps me with my air time!

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Would you imagine that just a few weeks ago, they were fighting and I had to keep Crickett on a leash while the kitten was loose?

Sleep, beautiful sleep

Where have you gone? I miss thee.

I feel like I'm dragging. I'm not getting enough sleep. Despite not working out Sunday or Monday, I'm still so tired. Maybe that's the problem?

This week's goals:

Yoga - 3x
Swim - 3x

I feel like I have to plot my battle strategy when it comes to Yoga. There's not a single gym that has Yoga in either the early morning or early evening every day of the week. Instead, it's on odd or even or weekends only. There's a gym that has it at lunchtime three days a week.