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I am strong, and I am a mighty gatherer.
After a satisfying workout and a tasty lunch, I have successfully bought boots. This involved a few brief ventures into stores on Eighth Street, in which the conversation got no further than my asking whether they carry wide sizes, and being told no. So I went uptown and bought rye bread, then visited the shoe store a few doors away from the bakery.
Fortunately, it was a quiet afternoon, and after the three pairs I'd asked to try first didn't fit, the saleswoman was willing to bring out every pair they had in an 8WW. (This isn't, alas, a large number: had it been, she'd probably not have been willing, but had it been, I wouldn't have asked her to.) I tried them all on, and found a few complete failures and two near-misses: one where the shoe itself seemed to fit, but I couldn't zip them over my calf and fit my pants either inside or outside the boot, and one whose upper was very stiff over the top of the foot [the part that Lily Tomlin has noted there is no specific word for], which it seemed possible would be comfortable after breaking in. That was the next-to-last pair.
The last pair fit. As in, actually fit. They're low, ankle-high rather than calf-high. I'm not surprised: even boots that come wide enough for my feet don't seem designed for muscular calves. So I bought them, trying not to wince at spending over $100 for a pair of boots (I'd better get a few good years out of these) and hoping that I'm not trying to get through two feet of snow at New Year's.
Gym details:
I walked in to the gym a bit after ten (on a rainy Tuesday morning), and my favorite trainer greeted me and observed that I had the gym to myself. This was a slight exaggeration, but the near-emptiness proved useful when the first two cardio bikes I tried--of the four they have in a model I like--turned out to be broken. When the first didn't respond at all, I moved over one. That gave me an error message, so I went and found Elliott (trainer), who confirmed that they were broken, and that he couldn't easily fix them. The third, fortunately, was functioning (the fourth was too, but someone was using it). In the course of all this, Elliott told me that if you enter a body weight when prompted, it adjusts the resistance slightly, using an algorithm that assumes that heavier=stronger. But you get much better control by using the keys intended and labeled for that. </hardware digression>
Cardio, 20 minutes, top heart rate 148
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 2 sets of 12; 70 pounds, 12
Leg press, 230 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Bench press, 65 pounds, 10, 9 [I had the weight room to myself for these first three exercises]
Seated leg curl, 100 pounds, 12, 10; 90 pounds, 12
Tricep pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 35 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Adjustable row, 100 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 17, still taking them nice and slow
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}
Bicep curl, 40-pound barbell, 2 sets of 13
Lateral raise, 7.5 pounds each hand, 15, or was it 12?; 5 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 15
Stretches (but not the weird one, that hurt, as it usually does, which is why I'd stopped doing it for a long time)
After a satisfying workout and a tasty lunch, I have successfully bought boots. This involved a few brief ventures into stores on Eighth Street, in which the conversation got no further than my asking whether they carry wide sizes, and being told no. So I went uptown and bought rye bread, then visited the shoe store a few doors away from the bakery.
Fortunately, it was a quiet afternoon, and after the three pairs I'd asked to try first didn't fit, the saleswoman was willing to bring out every pair they had in an 8WW. (This isn't, alas, a large number: had it been, she'd probably not have been willing, but had it been, I wouldn't have asked her to.) I tried them all on, and found a few complete failures and two near-misses: one where the shoe itself seemed to fit, but I couldn't zip them over my calf and fit my pants either inside or outside the boot, and one whose upper was very stiff over the top of the foot [the part that Lily Tomlin has noted there is no specific word for], which it seemed possible would be comfortable after breaking in. That was the next-to-last pair.
The last pair fit. As in, actually fit. They're low, ankle-high rather than calf-high. I'm not surprised: even boots that come wide enough for my feet don't seem designed for muscular calves. So I bought them, trying not to wince at spending over $100 for a pair of boots (I'd better get a few good years out of these) and hoping that I'm not trying to get through two feet of snow at New Year's.
Gym details:
I walked in to the gym a bit after ten (on a rainy Tuesday morning), and my favorite trainer greeted me and observed that I had the gym to myself. This was a slight exaggeration, but the near-emptiness proved useful when the first two cardio bikes I tried--of the four they have in a model I like--turned out to be broken. When the first didn't respond at all, I moved over one. That gave me an error message, so I went and found Elliott (trainer), who confirmed that they were broken, and that he couldn't easily fix them. The third, fortunately, was functioning (the fourth was too, but someone was using it). In the course of all this, Elliott told me that if you enter a body weight when prompted, it adjusts the resistance slightly, using an algorithm that assumes that heavier=stronger. But you get much better control by using the keys intended and labeled for that. </hardware digression>
Cardio, 20 minutes, top heart rate 148
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 2 sets of 12; 70 pounds, 12
Leg press, 230 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Bench press, 65 pounds, 10, 9 [I had the weight room to myself for these first three exercises]
Seated leg curl, 100 pounds, 12, 10; 90 pounds, 12
Tricep pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 35 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Adjustable row, 100 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 17, still taking them nice and slow
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}
Bicep curl, 40-pound barbell, 2 sets of 13
Lateral raise, 7.5 pounds each hand, 15, or was it 12?; 5 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 15
Stretches (but not the weird one, that hurt, as it usually does, which is why I'd stopped doing it for a long time)
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I have ordered the goose, or oie as we call them around here.
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It occurred to me a little while ago that in addition to missing you,