What I Did During Week 17

This was the first week that I have had my gym membership, so on Wednesday I set out to take advantage of it. (Monday was cleaning while Noah was at school - although I did walk 2 miles - and Tuesday was my design class - anyway...). I was not too excited about the idea of spending all my workout time stuck on an elliptical trainer so I know that I walked in with a scowl on my face, but an elliptical workout is certainly better than no workout so off I went. I was very surprised my how much I enjoyed it. I went about 40 minutes and worked up a wonderful sweat and had absolutely no pain in the pelvic area whatsoever! I followed that up with a mini strength session. I say "mini" because I was kind of just checking out the facility and only did some half-hearted sets on each of the machines. The cool thing is that there is a separate little weight room - you know, away from the main weight room where all the big guys pump iron - that has all the machines you need lined up in a nice little circuit. Chest, arms, back, legs, - boom, you've got yourself a 30 minute strength session right there. I am awful about strength training so I figure that if I can't run, maybe I could spend the extra time finally working out my puny arms. I went back yesterday and did another 40 minutes (this time intervals) on the elliptical and my legs were burning when I got off (yes!) and it felt great. I am going to try a run sometime this weekend to see if maybe I can cross train most of the time and at least try to run once a week or so. We'll see how it goes.

Also, I just finished reading the book Born to Run for the second time. I love that book! Whenever someone asks my why I want to run, I want to hand the book over and just say, read this. Read about how are ancestors were literally born to run. How they ran not just as a way of live but a way to literally stay alive. How man is uniquely created, over all other animals, to run long distances. How it is just in recent decades that we have ruined are innate running selves with poor diet and laziness. After reading it again I just want to completely strip my diet down to totally natural, unprocessed foods that completely fuel my body and go out and run! (I guess I will be waiting a bit on the running part but the reworking of my diet is something I am working on now. What better time to rid my daily life of processed crap than while I am pregnant?) Of course I decided that this Thursday and then went out to dinner last night for Wes' birthday and stuffed myself silly with fried green tomatoes, shrimp and grits, and some pecan pie. Oops. It was a celebration. Today will be better!