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The procrastination workout
Published on 14/01/08
by Maureen
Monday’s workout:
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location: Crunch
The workout: 16 minutes (2.09 miles) on the treadmill, upper body weights, standard abs, 16 minutes (2.11 miles on the treadmill)
The music: “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes was playing when I was coming out of the locker room, so I never did put on my iPod. Mostly it was late nineties alternative: Beastie Boys, Offspring, etc.
Felt like: Where did the time go? Suddenly I looked up and it was 6:30 and I was just getting back on the treadmill.
Total Weeky Mileage: 14.70/30
I couldn’t sleep last night, I was up until 12:45 a.m. tossing and turning in one of those tortured I-don’t-want-to-go-to-work-tomorrow kind of ways. When the alarm went off at 6, I rolled over, said “Go fuck yourself,” turned it off and went back to sleep for another hour.
When I finally woke up for good I was it was marginal at best, as is typically the case on the second day of a visit from aunt flo (that’s right I said it). As I steeled myself to do the lunch workout, a co-worker asked me to lunch and I feel like a schmuck turning down a social lunch for a run, so I resigned myself to staying after work.
In the end, the large coffee in the morning and the reasonably healthy lunch of a beef and veggie pita and rice paid off. The workout went down without too many hitches, considering how little I slept, how much I ran yesterday, etc. Again, getting past the 40 percent mark on the runs was a bit of a mental barrier, but the 16 minutes each slid by. I also felt much more comfortable on the weight machines, adding more weight to the chest press and pec deck and planning to take weight off assisted pull ups and assisted dips next week.
The run is over. Now what?
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