MYSELF!

After posting the past pic of myself, the top-less one, I realized I want abs and my upper body a little more defined.    As you see in the recent pic, I’m not too shabby, but there is always room for improvement.  So today I actually went to the gym.  That was a big feat since I despise going.  If  the air temperature is at least in the 20s, I would much rather run :

 I don’t have to drive there.   I don’t have to deal with the crowds and the people who may be sick.  The funky smells that come from other people who are working out next to you.  (when was the last time they washed their gym clothes? )

I just have to throw on the running shoes and feeling the freedom of myself and the road.  The weather for me is usually not an obstacle, just a challenge I’m willing to face. (and if I fart, who cares?)

But not this week, that wind chill is brutal.  So to keep me on the cardio equipment for more than 15 minutes, I took a school text book to read. 

After 60 minutes I *gasp* lifted a weight.  Now I have not touched a machine since my kickboxing days of 2004. 

With much grumbling on my part, my then trainer would make me round kick and front kick with cables strapped to my feet.  He would then make me hammer punch, jab, cross-over punch and even hook punch while holding on to cable weights.  This was all for power, which just made me better able to beat his ass during training….I think he was masochistic.

With little enthusiasm, I did assisted Dips and Pull-ups (wide and close grip) as well as 150 ab crunches.  Of course, I stretched forever.  In part, I love showing off my flexibility whenever I can, and who doesn’t want to bend like a pretzel?  Takes work to be a flexible runner.  The Daredevil runner is very flexible.

So I’m pleased with myself.  But I still wanna run.