Surreal Evening
This weekend has been pretty intense, and I've still got Monday to go.
I feel like the last few months I've been slipping on my fitness. I'm ~159 lbs., up from 151 in June. I'd thought that gain was more of a temporary blip, but it seems to have settled in to a more long-term plateau, so more dramatic action will be required to start pushing my ratio towards muscle again. So more lifting and more cardio this week. Started off with a very intense workout with my trainer on Saturday and an extra half-hour on the elliptical. (Nothing today. It is vital that I get to the gym on Monday, even though I'm off work for Presidents Day.)
Saturday evening there was a dance for Squares, which was pretty fun.
Sunday afternoon went to the Boston Lamb Jam with DJ and Michelle. Had amazing food from local (and not-so-local) restaurants and some incredible beer (tasted Cape Ann Brewing Company's Fisherman's Tea Party barleywine and Blue Hills Brewery's Antimatter Pale Ale).
In the evening, I was sitting in the 1369 drinking tea and reading and the whole experience was just sort of surreal. A traveling snowshoe hiker was pouring over a trail map, and I struck up a brief conversation. A gray-bearded man at the table across from me was reading Medea. A group of surprisingly well-dressed friends discussed local brunch venues. It fit the mood perhaps too well that the book I was reading was Greg Egan's short story collection, Axiomatic.
Currently, watching the start of the third season of Avatar and taking it easy.
I feel like the last few months I've been slipping on my fitness. I'm ~159 lbs., up from 151 in June. I'd thought that gain was more of a temporary blip, but it seems to have settled in to a more long-term plateau, so more dramatic action will be required to start pushing my ratio towards muscle again. So more lifting and more cardio this week. Started off with a very intense workout with my trainer on Saturday and an extra half-hour on the elliptical. (Nothing today. It is vital that I get to the gym on Monday, even though I'm off work for Presidents Day.)
Saturday evening there was a dance for Squares, which was pretty fun.
Sunday afternoon went to the Boston Lamb Jam with DJ and Michelle. Had amazing food from local (and not-so-local) restaurants and some incredible beer (tasted Cape Ann Brewing Company's Fisherman's Tea Party barleywine and Blue Hills Brewery's Antimatter Pale Ale).
In the evening, I was sitting in the 1369 drinking tea and reading and the whole experience was just sort of surreal. A traveling snowshoe hiker was pouring over a trail map, and I struck up a brief conversation. A gray-bearded man at the table across from me was reading Medea. A group of surprisingly well-dressed friends discussed local brunch venues. It fit the mood perhaps too well that the book I was reading was Greg Egan's short story collection, Axiomatic.
Currently, watching the start of the third season of Avatar and taking it easy.