Full days...
Jun. 19th, 2008 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today was filled with a lot of physical activity, and it felt good. I want to steer away from the word "healthy", because I have been exercising a lot on very little sleep, which isn't really healthy at all.
But still, I liked it. I carted around journals all day, which was actually pretty intense because the annex FINALLY hired new help and she's a really driven girl who puts me to shame in the speed department. It's seriously true what they say...two people doing something simultaneously WILL do it faster. I found myself, non-competitively, yet subconsciously speeding up to match her pace.
Then I walked home from Clarendon Hill, and hopped on my bike to do a circuit around the Mystic Lakes. It was actually really great. Mystic Valley Parkway, on the Winchester side, has a really generous shoulder for bikers and maintains a view of the lower lake basically the whole way, which was shimmering happily with the setting sun at the time of my ride. I think if I ever do the ride again, though, I will come back the way I came rather than doing the full circuit, because Mystic Ave is not bike friendly and it sports some pretty intense hills. The entire way was pretty hilly, whichresulted in me killing myself from asthma made the ride interesting. It was really, really enjoyable, a great day for it.
I have not yet, however, managed to bike to work, and I really am hating myself for it. It's not really so much the fact that I haven't done it, but the reasons why not. I always wake up either too tired, or I oversleep because I haven't gotten back into the swing of working since my trip and don't have time to bike without becoming late.
Because yea, that's really going to fly next year, when I don't want to bike to class in the morning because I'm too damn tired or because I slept too long. Aheh. It's really stupid that I'm going to be totally bike-dependent in a city that is 10 miles wide and 10 miles deep, and I can't even be assed to ride 5 and a half miles to work in the morning.
I think if I can get into a routine, though, then I'll be able to do it...it's just the first few times that will be hard. I'm also not as fit as I'd like to be...the hills on my ride today were frustratingly difficult to conquer. It's definitely something that I have to be working on. At least the results, when I actually do motivate myself out of the house, are pretty gratifying.
So in conclusion: I'm an out of shape dumbass who needs to go biking more often. And in this moment I am wicked tired.
But still, I liked it. I carted around journals all day, which was actually pretty intense because the annex FINALLY hired new help and she's a really driven girl who puts me to shame in the speed department. It's seriously true what they say...two people doing something simultaneously WILL do it faster. I found myself, non-competitively, yet subconsciously speeding up to match her pace.
Then I walked home from Clarendon Hill, and hopped on my bike to do a circuit around the Mystic Lakes. It was actually really great. Mystic Valley Parkway, on the Winchester side, has a really generous shoulder for bikers and maintains a view of the lower lake basically the whole way, which was shimmering happily with the setting sun at the time of my ride. I think if I ever do the ride again, though, I will come back the way I came rather than doing the full circuit, because Mystic Ave is not bike friendly and it sports some pretty intense hills. The entire way was pretty hilly, which
I have not yet, however, managed to bike to work, and I really am hating myself for it. It's not really so much the fact that I haven't done it, but the reasons why not. I always wake up either too tired, or I oversleep because I haven't gotten back into the swing of working since my trip and don't have time to bike without becoming late.
Because yea, that's really going to fly next year, when I don't want to bike to class in the morning because I'm too damn tired or because I slept too long. Aheh. It's really stupid that I'm going to be totally bike-dependent in a city that is 10 miles wide and 10 miles deep, and I can't even be assed to ride 5 and a half miles to work in the morning.
I think if I can get into a routine, though, then I'll be able to do it...it's just the first few times that will be hard. I'm also not as fit as I'd like to be...the hills on my ride today were frustratingly difficult to conquer. It's definitely something that I have to be working on. At least the results, when I actually do motivate myself out of the house, are pretty gratifying.
So in conclusion: I'm an out of shape dumbass who needs to go biking more often. And in this moment I am wicked tired.