Week 5: Comings and Goings
Aug. 8th, 2010 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogThat is not the title I intended for this piece. Usually, I write first and headline the piece later, because that's the way it works (or at least worked) in the newspaper business, Occasionally, though, the header for an entry just pops into my head, the idea behind it fully-formed, and I just run with it. So it was around 11 last night, after a Full Rich Day of entertaining and the pre's and post's of the entertainment, but I can't remember that perfect title for love or money.
Yet.
And, roughly ten hours after writing that last word, still not, so I give up.
The "coming" of the temporary title refers to me still coming to the gyms to maintain this effort. My usual pair of workout classes got compressed into the first two days of the past workweek, both of those days surrounded by much stress and even more humidity in the outside world, to the point where on Tuesday, I found myself going through three complete changes of clothes on account of sweat, only two of them involving exercise beyond general business running-about.
The "going" refers to my trainer, who moved that second class up, and postponed this coming week's into next and thereafter, to take a real vacation for over a week for her 20th wedding anniversary. It's perhaps the only area I've discovered so far where I'm actually a little ahead of her, but 20 is close enough to appreciate how hard, and yet how much fun, it was to get there.
After her return, we only have three more scheduled classes, which, for all my kvetching about specific exercises, I am already finding myself getting ready to miss. We may find other times to schedule more stuff in the fall, but it will have to be evenings, with all of life and occasionally work that competes for those hours. While I feel I've made progress in the doing during these few weeks, I can't say I've done as good a job of preparing myself to pick up on my own wherever we leave off. What I don't want to do is just get into a dull routine of the same 15 sets every other day; I did that for years and it got me exactly to where I started a few weeks ago, which is not where I want to be.
No great change in The Number from a week ago- it's been n+1 within the past few days, n-2 at this very moment. Neither is going to win me any contests anytime soon, but at least it's staying in the ballpark where it began and not getting any worse.
Yet.
And, roughly ten hours after writing that last word, still not, so I give up.
The "coming" of the temporary title refers to me still coming to the gyms to maintain this effort. My usual pair of workout classes got compressed into the first two days of the past workweek, both of those days surrounded by much stress and even more humidity in the outside world, to the point where on Tuesday, I found myself going through three complete changes of clothes on account of sweat, only two of them involving exercise beyond general business running-about.
The "going" refers to my trainer, who moved that second class up, and postponed this coming week's into next and thereafter, to take a real vacation for over a week for her 20th wedding anniversary. It's perhaps the only area I've discovered so far where I'm actually a little ahead of her, but 20 is close enough to appreciate how hard, and yet how much fun, it was to get there.
After her return, we only have three more scheduled classes, which, for all my kvetching about specific exercises, I am already finding myself getting ready to miss. We may find other times to schedule more stuff in the fall, but it will have to be evenings, with all of life and occasionally work that competes for those hours. While I feel I've made progress in the doing during these few weeks, I can't say I've done as good a job of preparing myself to pick up on my own wherever we leave off. What I don't want to do is just get into a dull routine of the same 15 sets every other day; I did that for years and it got me exactly to where I started a few weeks ago, which is not where I want to be.
No great change in The Number from a week ago- it's been n+1 within the past few days, n-2 at this very moment. Neither is going to win me any contests anytime soon, but at least it's staying in the ballpark where it began and not getting any worse.