April 19, 2000 -- 12:23 AM
EST
I meant to go to gym and then I
conked out all tired and did not wake until 10:34 PM. Which means gym is
closed. Grr. 24-Hour gyms, I keep telling ya!
I have to get out my day planner
and map out what's happening as far as workouts go. We've pretty much agreed to
start on Easter Sunday with the active.com walking marathon schedule. What I
need to work in are my bike rides and weight training days. I also need to make
regular stretching a habit.
There's my big problem -- being
consistent with workouts. I come and go too much.
One of my BIL's e-mailed to send
him a pledge thingie, while the other is too distracted. Understandable --
Donna goes into induced labor tomorrow and hopefully my new niece, Sarah, will
be with us safe and sound. Birthing times are so exciting! :)
I also got a great note from Joe
telling me what's going on with him in WI, and that he's proud of me. He thinks
a marathon sounds fun but then he asked if I could stand to be on Disney
property that long? Old joke.
I like the parks and all -- it's
just that sometimes, you get really tired of the tourist scene here in
Orlando. Although the town is built on the tourist trade, I get oversaturated
with Disneyania and Universal Studios stuff. Billboards, T-shirts, souvenirs,
every restaurant in the tourists district hawking brochures and pamphlets,
malls hawking discount park tickets, rental cars full of people who don't know
where they are going scaring me in traffic...
I normally dislike Bubba
"Whoopass" Wilson (local radio personality) but I have to admit that
the tourist song is funny. The chorus kind of goes with that "My
Buddy" toy's theme song.
Only instead of
"My Buddy,
My Buddy,
Wherever I go, HE
goes..."
It's more like
"Damn
tourists,
Damn tourists,
Taking over
Or-Lan-do!"
Ah, have to live here to get it, I
guess.
Adrith
Earlier this morning
Adrith e-mailed me to see if I wanted to be partners for the
marathon. This was a welcome surprise! And of course, I jumped on it!
I've known Adrith, been in my
cyberworld for a little while. I bumped into her and her virtual life when I
was a member of
Gail's Mailing List and from
Gail's
Journal List. She was also a member and kept an on-line journal on and off.
When it was on, sometimes it would appear on
my weekly read
list.
Then she disappeared for a little
while and I lost track of where her journal was hiding. Then I found it again
and it's been touch and go because she keeps
a blog style
journal and flips back and forth over which one is updated the most.
Anyway, she's also in her mid-twenties, lives with her husband Joe, and we're
at similar points in our lives.
It's kind of cool to think that
we'll be cybertraining together and then at the end, not only do we each get to
participate in our first marathons, we get to do it together, and meet in real
life for the first time. How cool is that?! Yay! :)
I really like that I have a
partner -- the idea of doing it alone was ok, but with a partner to turn to
with fears, worries, problems, etc. makes it more doable somehow.
She suggested starting
a marathon
blog as a collaborative effort so we could yammer about the marathon stuff
there. I thought it was a great idea. That means we can both get it out of our
systems without clogging our on-line journals with endless marathon babble that
not everyone wants to be reading. I mean, seven months of training. That's a
LONG time!
I'm looking for a 5K to do in
summer though, kind of a halfway benchmark to see how I am doing. So far the
best one looks like the AIDS 5k in Tampa, but I have to try to get more info on
it. All I have is a phone number right now.
~Astrophe
  
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