Yes, I'm [fortunately] leaving Tampa -- and moving out of my apartment -- in fewer than 3 days, but I still have to put up with my shitty roommate, who had few to no redeeming qualities.  Let me think ( Read more... )

Now I don't feel so bad about not working out -- because, I did, in fact, get some [actual] exercise in my PE class today (technically for the first time this semester), yay! It was actually pretty difficult. I'd thought that we'd just go to the cardio room or something and do whatever we wanted there, but instead we went to the multi-purpose ( Read more... )

Yeah, I've basically decided to give up on running. I mean, I could've kept going, and I'm sure I would've been fine, but I don't love it like I do biking. Why waste my time doing something I don't really like to do? And besides, I can bike for a REALLY long time now--50 minutes today (my new record!)--and, what's better, I can read while I'm ( Read more... )

I really do love exercising now. Of course, I'm still not a big fan of running, but I don't hate it anymore. I'm using a fitness plan from Self magazine to help me go from walking to running, and the days that I don't walk/run I bike (which I did today) -- or, like I did yesterday, I don't work out. It's great to be in such awesome shape, but ( Read more... )

Yay, Floyd Landis won the Tour de France!! -- the 3rd American (2nd in a row) ever to do so! Pretty sweet, huh? Well, even though his victory was basically sealed yesterday after he took the overall lead from the time trial, now he's officially the winner! Congrats to Landis, his family, and his team [Phonak], and don't forget all those other ( Read more... )