Weightlifting yesterday (weights do not include the weight of the machine): Leg press: 15/15 @ 45 lb (+10) Bench press: 13/6 @20 lb (-5) Lat pulldown: 13/12 @ 144 lb Shoulder press: 15/8 @ 5 lb Anterior tibialis: 13 all/8 all @ 10 lb Also did 17 minutes on the rowing machine. Don’t know *why* 17 precisely, but it sounded like a good medium. It was surprisingly easy, which creeps me out a little. Next time I think I’ll do a round 20 minutes.

Wonderful run today–painless except for the fact that I need to change directions on the track. It felt long, and my lungs didn’t like me, but I am definitely getting better. Now I just need to keep up the same intervals for the rest of this week before I reassess how to increase next week.

I had an amazingly nice run yesterday. I didn’t go in the morning—I’m just a lazy bum—but I went in the afternoon. It was in the thirties temperature-wise, and I learned just how ignorant I am of cold-weather running. I forgot my headband (for my ears) and gloves (although my jacket was baggy enough that I could pull my hands into the sleeves a little to let them get warm). The run was slow, but it was steady and it was long enough to be a pretty good workout. My legs didn’t complain (although I’m sore today) and my lungs primarily hated only the cold. I think I very much…

So I actually went out and drove around town today (yay!) and only had a couple of close calls. There was mad restarting in the drive-through of Burger King, and there was a pretty scary left turn at a busy intersection on the way home. But everything else went smoothly. *cheesy grin* Bad news is, though, that all the clutch use pulled on all the [formerly?] messed up muscles along the top of my left foot. So I definitely get to limit driving time until I strengthen those back up, because just shy of two hours of city driving was enough to give me a slight limp. Ugh. At least…