More exercise-related bragging

[missroserose]

Wednesday night, I was coming home from work and Brian was stuck working late at the County's server office, which is on a short but very steep hill right off of my usual bike route home. So, just for the hell of it, I decided to see if I could make it all the way up that hill to give him a kiss on the way home. Much to my amazement, I did - it helped that the bike managed to shift into the lowest set of gears (something that's it's a little iffy about, and I need to have fixed). My thighs were sore that night, but the sense of accomplishment was worth it.

Then, yesterday afternoon I felt kind of out of it, so I left work early and caught a ride home with Brian, leaving my bike chained to a post in its usual spot. This morning, I had Brian drop me off downtown on his way to work, took a minute to swing by the coffeeshop, and then put M83's new album on my iPod.

And...I managed to get all the way up the Tombstone Canyon to our street, with no breaks, in ten minutes flat. I even walked the bike all the way up Locklin without needing a break, either - another first. Now for Challenge Mode - biking all the way up the canyon, *and* all the way up our (very steep) hill...

Oh. And yoga. Did I mention the yoga? Just finished a month of the twenty-minutes-every-weekday-morning routine.

Now to see if I can transfer the self-discipline to some of the other stuff I've been wanting to do. November is coming up, after all. Perhaps this time I can start with an outline and actually write something publishable.

Comments

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

Go you!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I aim to provide vicarious thrills for my friends, and perhaps inspire them to follow in my footsteps. Not that I'm proud or anything.

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

Really? Because you should be proud.

And you are a little inspiring. You'd be more inspiring if it weren't rainy and cold and I hadn't promised myself a "fuck it all" day.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Aww. It's okay, I have plenty of those too. I just don't blog about them because (unlike a certain mutual acquaintance of ours) I don't really see the point in being publicly whiny. :)