"I wanna be where the people are..." HAHA, no I don't.
Recently I've been exercising more and actually, y'know, watching what I eat and whatnot. Partially because I'm training for this piece of excellent, and partially because I fucking love swimming.
I'm doing more days at the gym, increasing my bike rides, running on the old treadmill in the garage, and swimming, swimming, swimming. Swimming is awesome. You get exercise but you don't get hot. I love that. I'm using a monofin for working my core and pretending to be a mermaid and my poor abs are so painfully sore. Good sore though.
I'm mostly swimming in the evening at the community pool because even though it technically closes at dusk, the local cops don't care if you stay a while after dark. During the day I use the indoor pool at the gym, even though it's only like four feet deep, or if I feel like making a production of it I'll coat my appendages in SPF A Bajillion sunscreen and go down to the beach. A couple of days ago I went to the inlet and I was far out where the sand gives way to rocks and I saw an octopus. It was peeking its eyes and two tentacles out of a little crevice, and one tentacle caught in the current and waved a bit, so I was a dork and waved back. HI OCTOPUS! After the swim I walked out to the end of the jetty and lay there on the rocks for a while, watching the fishies and pelicans. I really enjoy swimming in the ocean with my monofin; it makes me feel really confident in dealing with the waves and undercurrents. It's amazing how fast and powerful my swimming is with that thing.
I dragged the scale out from the cupboard a couple of days ago on a whim and I've gone from my solid 230 to 221 pounds. I know I'm building muscle too. Yay me.
Tomorrow I'm going running with dad. This is sure to be hilarious if not tragic. In the likely event that my hearts explodes or something, I should appoint somebody to erase my internet history and take custody of my action figures. Hmmm.
Oh, and all the sun from the beach has turned my hair from red to blonde. It's still red at the roots, so I kind of look like a hibiscus. Heehee.
I'm doing more days at the gym, increasing my bike rides, running on the old treadmill in the garage, and swimming, swimming, swimming. Swimming is awesome. You get exercise but you don't get hot. I love that. I'm using a monofin for working my core and pretending to be a mermaid and my poor abs are so painfully sore. Good sore though.
I'm mostly swimming in the evening at the community pool because even though it technically closes at dusk, the local cops don't care if you stay a while after dark. During the day I use the indoor pool at the gym, even though it's only like four feet deep, or if I feel like making a production of it I'll coat my appendages in SPF A Bajillion sunscreen and go down to the beach. A couple of days ago I went to the inlet and I was far out where the sand gives way to rocks and I saw an octopus. It was peeking its eyes and two tentacles out of a little crevice, and one tentacle caught in the current and waved a bit, so I was a dork and waved back. HI OCTOPUS! After the swim I walked out to the end of the jetty and lay there on the rocks for a while, watching the fishies and pelicans. I really enjoy swimming in the ocean with my monofin; it makes me feel really confident in dealing with the waves and undercurrents. It's amazing how fast and powerful my swimming is with that thing.
I dragged the scale out from the cupboard a couple of days ago on a whim and I've gone from my solid 230 to 221 pounds. I know I'm building muscle too. Yay me.
Tomorrow I'm going running with dad. This is sure to be hilarious if not tragic. In the likely event that my hearts explodes or something, I should appoint somebody to erase my internet history and take custody of my action figures. Hmmm.
Oh, and all the sun from the beach has turned my hair from red to blonde. It's still red at the roots, so I kind of look like a hibiscus. Heehee.