i'm back, and i feel great!

i guess it's been a whole week since i last blogged. you didn't miss much. it wasn't incredibly eventful. the weather has been nice, so we have been outside a lot more. we got the bikes cleaned up and ridable. we have had some great rides too!

anyway, i don't know if some kind of bug went through our house or what, but we were all tired. very tired. it didn't matter when we went to bed or got up, we were just tired. whatever it was, hopefully it's done. being more cautious about bedtime (for us as well as the kids) has helped.

i managed to get up early enough to exercise this morning. (only the second day so far this week...) see, i was up later than i should have been all weekend, so i knew sunday night that i wasn't getting up to exercise monday. tuesday i was tired, but managed to get a short ride on the exercise bike. yesterday, i was so tired, instead of getting up, or hitting snooze, i reset the alarm and went back to sleep. last night, i got to bed at a decent time, so this morning wasn't bad.

--sorry, quick little sidebar. last night wasn't a decent time. it was too early. i just meant that in order to get up early enough to work out before my bus, i have to get to bed! i like staying up late. i hate mornings. throughout college and the first half of my working life i was a theatre guy. that meant late night work. rehearsals, shows, and the social life came after. bedtime was routinely 2am! it didn't matter, because i didn't have to get up early. it was very conducive to my personality. i met the beautiful meemer in the theatre dept. at weber state university, and in our marriage, little changed. we both liked the later schedule. it wasn't until a couple years later, when we had "real jobs" (or at least jobs that started by 9am) that our peace was disrupted.
ok, that wasn't a quick rant... there's a lot more there, but i'd better get back to relevant stuff. (not that it matters...)--

i was feeling good enough this morning, (still tired, but only one "snooze") i hit the treadmill. instead of the walk a lap, run a lap thing i'd been doing, i decided to run steady. (of course, by run, i mean jog. leisurely.) after a warm-up lap, i jogged steady for 1.5 miles. that's six laps. i know that's not much for those of you who are in shape, but for me, that was pretty good. what really made me feel good, was that i could have kept going, but i needed to get ready for work.

after a cool-down lap, (making a total of two miles) i stretched, shaved, showered, and caught the bus. i enjoyed some reading, and got right into some projects at work. that doesn't sound like anything, but for me it was a big deal. i was motivated! it has been hard lately to get focused on any given task.

i don't know if it had anything to do with the exercise or not, but i do know that for the first time since i started working out, i feel great! walking from the bus to my office, i felt good. i was awake, i had already accomplished something, and i just felt good.

hopefully i can build on that, and be more faithful about the whole thing...