I’ve been terrible about rowing lately – we canceled our boats yesterday mrning due to bad weather, and I didn’t get on the water all last week either. On the other hand, I’ve actually been pretty good about working out lately. For me, “bad” still means working out 4-5 times a week when I’m home, but more of them are wimpy workouts, e.g. a light 5km on the erg. “Good” means 5 workouts a week and more of them are hard ones; in this case I rowed about 11.5 km at good pace a week ago Sunday, did qute a hard weight workout plus intervals on the erg Tuesday, an easy 5km on the erg Wednesday, on Friday rode my bike to work, then to an offsite meeting 3 km from work in the direction away from home, then home from there (about 18 km total), then did a hard erg workout changing rate on Saturday and a hard-because-new weight routine on Sunday.
I’m a little sore today because of the new weight routine (it’s Stage 3 in The New Rules of LIfting of Women). When I’d been sitting too long just now it was a little painful to get up, so before going back to my desk I went up a few flights of stairs to see if it would help (11th to 20th floor and back down). I have a feeling it won’t, though. The weight workout was at least interesting, because it had all kind of freaky things like a one-arm dumbbell squat (hold a light DB up and a heavier one down and squat – surprisingly hard to hold the one up as you’re rising and I had to go down to about 2 lbs) and a dumbbell one-legged Romanian deadlift (hold two DBs, lower your body down and one leg up into a T shape – good for balance). There were supposed to be a bunch of squats and lunges and jumps at the end, but I didn’t do the two full sets I was supposed to. Anyway, at least it’s soemthing new to keep me interested and my body challenged.
I’m starting to see better definition again in my arms and legs; the sad thing is, given that mine tends to start at the extemities and creep inward, I doubt I’ll see any more definition in my middle parts before I lose momentum again with my upcoming travel. Oh, well, at least I tend to move around more when not at work, and the cruise stops will involve lots of walking, which always seems to be really good for me.
I’ve got my travel knitting figured out; I was going to do socks and then a summer sweater, since both trips will have lots of knititng time, but then I got seduced away from the socks by a an adorable elephant pattern (named Elijah). I’ll either do the socks after or put them off for later.