I was dragging ass this morning. Even though yesterday, my birthday, was really fun, this whole weekend was hectic and I was feeling run down. I left a lot later than I usually do on Sunday's drive back to Iowa and I was spent when I got there. I have been working out every day during lunch but today I just wasn’t feeling it. But past history has always told me if I am tired work out, and I’ll be revived in no time. I headed to the gym to force myself into it.
(Side story, more like parallel story, or giant run on sentence)I am super excited that Meg got me an ipod nano for my birthday. It was totally unexpected even though she says I have done nothing but talk about it for like 2 months. If you are un familiar with the nano, it comes with a workout tracker from Nike as an app. You can set it for predetermined amounts of time, distance, intensity, etc and it will track your run. Basically it's a touch screen pedometer that plays music, awesome. Well it does soooo much more.
(Jump back in) I told myself I would run a 5k so that’s what I hit. This very authoritative woman’s voice comes on and states..."push begin when you start your workout". WHAT, it narrates my work out! Every .5k she comes back on and tells you the distance covered. At the end she sums up the run and saves it for future tracking. This is frickin sweet! When I hit 1.5k she says I am half way done. Ah crap, I must have hit 3k with my big fat Finn-gers instead of 5k. I already motivated myself to run 5 so I’m going to do it. And you know what? You can run past the end mark and she tells you how far you have gone past the finish. That is even better because now I feel like I am doing more and anyone expected of me. Like everyone is at the finish line stretching and drinking cool aid and I decided to take another lap around the course for fun.
So not only did I have Sarah (made-up name for the voice) tracking my run but the old ladies at the gym had on Days of Our Lives! It was awesome. Mildred, Estelle, Maude and I are all watching Days while we work out. Not being able to hear the show, I think, makes it better. The 20 minutes I watched was astounding. A husband and sister in law get caught making out by the wife, a son looks to be extorting his parents, and a fight between a sassy Latino woman and a senator at a political campaign party has to be broken up. BTW, has anyone ever told these actors that they are not performing a stage play where the people in the back row have to get the same action as the front rowers? It’s so bad it’s good, I laughed out loud, and I mean loud, like 5 times. I hope the ladies are back tomorrow because I don’t have the stones to change the channel to it myself.
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