Two Miles in 16:40

I actu­al­ly made it to the gym before work this morn­ing. I did a lit­tle run­ning – I end­ed up doing about 22 min­utes all told. Not in ‘s league, but I knew that time was lim­it­ed. I did some work down in the weight room too. My abil­i­ty to bench­press is real­ly weak, not sur­pris­ing since I hard­ly ever do it any­more. I also did­n’t have a spot­ter, so when I lost it after six reps at 115 pounds (I know, I know) I had to put the bar on the low­er pins, get out from under and lift it back from a stand­ing posi­tion. I hate hav­ing to do that. Maybe I should­n’t bench­press with­out a spotter…

It’s cool though because although I’ve lost some strength in my chest, my shoul­ders are stronger than they have ever been, and I think that helped com­pen­sate, and that means that if I just stick with it, I should be able to get stronger than ever.

It’s one of my goals to some­day be able to bench my own body weight. That’s not in the near future, but it would be a nice achievement.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I did­n’t give myself quite enough time and so I had to get from the Embar­cadero gym to my office at Fish­er­man’s Wharf by cab. I left my apart­ment at 6:15am and showed up at the gym at 6:44, which I think is damn good time. It was 8:44am when I left Jam­ba Juice and thanks to a taxi I was open­ing the door at 8:58am. So Splicer makes it to work on time for the sixth day run­ning! Yay me! And I can just do enough so I’m not rush­ing at the end the next time.

And I bet it would go faster if I came all the way to the North Point gym to work out and show­er, and then walk to the office. But the North Point gym smells bad. Not like stinky peo­ple bad either, it’s like this hor­rid mildew smell. But I’ll try it out and see how the tim­ing works. I bet I can still keep my alarm at 5:30 and be at work by 9am. I’d hate to have to wake up even ear­li­er. Ugh.

Two weeks ago I was going to sleep at 4 or 5am… now I’m up at 5:30. No won­der I’m going crazy.