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The day began, up here in Inwood, with mulberries fresh off a tree, and ended with lightning bugs in the rain (I spotted the first of this summer maybe ten yards from the mulberries). In between, work featured a morning fire drill (which actually had us leave the building, at least), and intermittent power problems in the afternoon. I gather this is common in lightning storms. Nonetheless, I decided I didn't really trust the Long Island Railroad to be running on schedule in such conditions, so I asked my fellow proofreaders if someone could give me a ride to "any Queens subway station." Cristina kindly obliged, dropping me at Willets Point/Shea Stadium on the 7.
I boarded the 7 in pouring rain; by the time I got to midtown, it was overcast and damp but not raining. I went to the gym, despite having earlier written in my journal "I have a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side."
At the gym, I did a minimal cardio warmup (six minutes, I think, but that was time to get my heart rate up in the low 140s), then walked over to Xpressline. I had to persuade the trainer that yes, I needed a new card, because I want to keep records, and wanted to increase the weights on some machines. He did that, then went off and left me to another--much more cheerful--trainer who was working with another Xpressline user.
I need to get the exact numbers off the card, but I added five pounds to the leg press (though the difference between 305 and 310 hardly matters), the leg extension, and a chest press (which I'd reduced a few weeks ago when my shoulder was particularly unhappy). For some reason, I'm having more trouble with the bicep machine than I do with bicep curls using free weights. I only managed 10 reps today, despite having left the weight constant for weeks.
After Xpressline, I did 4 sets of 20 crunches, 3 sets of 17 back arches, and the 4 sets of 2 on each leg of the yoga tree. I've lost a bit of balance there, a reminder that I need to do it regularly. Then quick stretches (meaning 5 or 6 per stretch instead of 8), shower, and home.
It was raining again before I got to the subway after working out, lightly but with lightning visible over New Jersey; the light rain I emerged into at Isham Street was a heavy rain by the time I was in Inwood Hill Park, but I didn't mind: the park needs the water, and I had an umbrella and lightning bugs (I often say "firefly", but in weather like this they're lightning bugs).
I boarded the 7 in pouring rain; by the time I got to midtown, it was overcast and damp but not raining. I went to the gym, despite having earlier written in my journal "I have a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side."
At the gym, I did a minimal cardio warmup (six minutes, I think, but that was time to get my heart rate up in the low 140s), then walked over to Xpressline. I had to persuade the trainer that yes, I needed a new card, because I want to keep records, and wanted to increase the weights on some machines. He did that, then went off and left me to another--much more cheerful--trainer who was working with another Xpressline user.
I need to get the exact numbers off the card, but I added five pounds to the leg press (though the difference between 305 and 310 hardly matters), the leg extension, and a chest press (which I'd reduced a few weeks ago when my shoulder was particularly unhappy). For some reason, I'm having more trouble with the bicep machine than I do with bicep curls using free weights. I only managed 10 reps today, despite having left the weight constant for weeks.
After Xpressline, I did 4 sets of 20 crunches, 3 sets of 17 back arches, and the 4 sets of 2 on each leg of the yoga tree. I've lost a bit of balance there, a reminder that I need to do it regularly. Then quick stretches (meaning 5 or 6 per stretch instead of 8), shower, and home.
It was raining again before I got to the subway after working out, lightly but with lightning visible over New Jersey; the light rain I emerged into at Isham Street was a heavy rain by the time I was in Inwood Hill Park, but I didn't mind: the park needs the water, and I had an umbrella and lightning bugs (I often say "firefly", but in weather like this they're lightning bugs).