June 19, 2000 -- 11:13 PM EST

I can't believe it! Well, I can, but it still makes me hang my mouth open in surprise.

Today was my day off as far as gym, so as soon as Paul got back with the car at 8 PM I dashed to Target to try to get more Coolmax shorts and I managed to snag THE LAST TWO! I was sooo lucky they were in my size! I was just there on Saturday and they had just put them on the sales rack when I bought one. They had a whole bunch of them in all sizes -- but whew! Those got snapped up! It's only been two days!

I got lucky and I managed to snag some Coolmax tops off the "Deals and Steals" page at Lucy.com though. Gear.com never has them when I look -- they get bought out too fast. Title 9 Sports is on back order for the wicking tops I like. With it being summer and everyone cooking from the heat, everyone wants to have wicking fitness wear. I don't blame them. I need to find me a wicking hat in a light color that doesn't cost a zillion dollars. When I'm walking around in the hot sun, that's when I wonder why I had to be born with thick, black hair!

Is it worth it? All this wicking fabric stuff? YES. I've lived through one soggy butt too many, and I'm slowing changing everything in the fitness drawer over to wicking wear. So long cotton!

This week things look like this:

I've been slacking on the weights, but it's time to go back. I won't be doing the long walk on Saturday on hills. Paul's coming on rollerblades and we're going to do a paved trail so I can try to get a benchmark for 13 miles. If the weather looks bad I'll be stuck doing it at the gym, but I'm hoping for good weather. I'm also hoping Paul is more agreeable to waking early to get it out of the way early -- he's so hard to get up on weekends! Adrith suggested doing a photo collage of the hike if possible -- so definitely hope for good weather. There's not much scenary at the gym to photograph!

Got the August issue of Walking Magazine in the mail today. I'm off to go see what it's about and relax.

~Astrophe