LA Un-fitness

I just couldn't get it started tonight. Nancy (who was once Nanny for the kids) had come over from Jackson Heights to spend some time with us. We took her to the gym.
She had fun, Ileana had fun. I did not.

LA Un-Fitness.

The treadmill felt like a bed of nails. My legs felt like cement blocks. It didn't matter the speed, I was just sore all over. I could have stretched some more, perhaps that might have helped. I stretched afterwards, and it didn't.

The girls were going to go to the steam room, but I was well done already. Since they had dinner even before I got to the apartment, I decided to grab a quick bite.

MISTAKE #1: Never eat a meal less than 3 hours before you go to bed. Or it will stay with you like a coffee-table.

I went for Pizza.

MISTAKE #2: Two slices of pizza is over 800 calories.

Then I stopped at a convenience store and had a Good Humor Candy Center Crunch Ice Cream Bar.

MISTAKE #3: Never have an Ice Cream desert where there nearly 300 calories and 12 grams of saturated fat in it.

Despite my belly feeling satiated, I completely fell off the wagon. I wound up eating over 2,000 calories and had 28 grams of saturated fat in one day (8 over the FDA recommended)

EDITORS UPDATE: I gained nearly a pound this morning. Serves me right!

Treadmillosis Brokenitis.

More and more, gymnasiums (a necessary supplement) have been infected with this deadly disease. It starts with the host germ, called the gym employee, doing something other than working. This includes talking to the good looking girl at the smoothie bar, or checking out the -err- fitness quotient of some of the members. And how does it end? It ends with treadmills that work like c*%p and become unusuable to the feet & legs of many.

Of course, it would be nice to put a SIGN on the treadmill warning us to stay away from these

neglected, and overrun machines....but NOOOOOOO (John Belushi style), it is far better for you, the PAYING customer to get on the treadmill, and nearly get off --- on the floor behind you.

Oh, by the way, that was a rant.

Anyway, it had been 3 days since my last run, and my mini-strains on my calves are much better now. I ran a 5K in an easy, slow speed (about 10 min. per mile). My calves were a little tight after the run, but I think I am in a much better place now.

To all people of Cleveland......THANK YOU FOR THE SUN!

Yes, the streak of gray skies is broken.

However, the streak of late flight departures is not. 10 flights in a row and counting... (That was a 'rant aftershock')

Weather is miserable, raining swimming pools over here.

Pizza night tonight (Dani's special an entire pie for 8 bucks).