For the rest of the workout, I upped many of my weights (especially the arms) and was feeling it this morning.  It is partially my own fault, I opted for a cheeseburger instead of my protein shake and I think that the protein shake helps my muscle recovery much better.  But cheeseburgers taste good.

That’s all for today, you’ll get my karate update tomorrow morning since I somehow got one day behind.

Part of this problem was exacerbated by the fact that 2/3 of my tasks were in a state where I was forced to wait on input or action from someone else, which led to broad stretches of today where I was waiting around.

In an effort to fill this time with something valuable, I started working on revisions to a few documents.  Documentation is one of those things that I will do if there is a reason for it, but I don’t particularly enjoy.  Despite these documents being fairly important, in the context of today they felt to me like busy-work (ironically forced on me by ME) and it was exceedingly hard to get focused enough to make any real headway.

So in a nutshell, I am my own worst enemy today.

Did I get work done?
Yes.

Did I work as furiously hard as I normally do?
Not by a long-shot.

Is that really a problem?
Oh, probably not but that won’t stop me from feeling bad about it anyway.

Am I talking to myself AND answering myself?
Yes.  Which means it is time to go!

I worked on Barenaked Ladies new song “You Run Away” and Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” which has a very difficult picking pattern that will take some time to get natural.

We also watched most of the Oscars, which is always entertaining.  I was expecting Avatar to do better, but I guess the handful of awards it walked away with was respectable.

That’s all for me tonight!

The guests just arrived, so I am off to entertain now!

But before the birthday laziness, we went to the gym!  I ran a mile in around 10 minutes (closer to 10:30) and then lifted weights.  Tasha did 2.25 miles in 10 minutes on the exercise bike and she lifted weights too!

Time to go relax!

More later!

For the record: yes, I have the musical taste of a 65 year old.  Deal with it.

Now, up to this point I was happy to get 2 miles in in 23 minutes and that was without a marathoner “motivating” me.  So he ran pace for me as we went, and I made it through the first half fairly well and had plenty of time to spare.  My lungs were screaming, especially my right one.  Paul wanted to teach me the technique of negative splits, where you start slow and gradually ratchet up the pace.  He said another way to do it was run a certain number of laps, then walk a certain number of laps to achieve the same thing.

I got it done, however I was beat and looked like a half-boiled chicken for the rest of our workout.  We continued to blast the legs for the rest of the workout, which also included sets of chinups and 15 dips.  I was happy to have pushed past my limit, but its not something I want to do every workout.  My lungs really hurt during the run, and my lack of lunch was readily apparent as we got into the weights.  It felt like I hit a cement wall about halfway through.

That’s all for me right now, I’m going to install Windows 7 Ultimate on my Eee PC.  Hopefully I’ll use it a bit more with a good OS on there.

The rest of the evening was taken up with our grocery shopping and watching the closing ceremonies.  Good times.