One of the advantages of working for yourself in Reston is that you have the flexibility to run out whenever you want to take advantage of the many paths throughout the woods that stretch out all over town. On the other hand, the thing about working for yourself is that every minute that you are not working is time you are not potentially making money. On the third hand, I have the intention of running 10 km at the Cooper River Bridge Run in now less than 2 months, and I've had no form of regular exercise in the past 32 months. Yes, while I was in Grand Rapids, I was playing soccer for a few hours once or twice a week. Every week. It was awesome. I kinda figured that going to the more cosmopolitan capital area I wouldn't have any trouble finding opportunities to play soccer. But the truth is, after leaving Michigan in April 2008, I did not play the beautiful game once until May 2009 when I was in France. I then found out that I did not have the stamina of yesteryear. And I've had pretty much no real exercise since then (except occasionally going swing dancing).
It helps that I already have a wonderful body. Hey I'm not just saying that 'cause I think so. I know a genius who tells me so every day. Keeping a slim figure was also helped for some time by having a job that fills you with stress (scientific fact of the day: stress bullies the fatty cells and scares them out of the body, that's how it works) and doesn't give you the time to have regular, decent meals.
On second thought, kids, the Council recommends that you do not try that last idea for yourselves. This stunt was performed by a professional.
Well, there weren't many job posts yesterday, and temperatures got above freezing again. So in the late morning I put on a few layers of jogging clothes and actually got out to the path to do me some runnin'. Well, jogging. I've always better enjoyed sprints to slow-paced endurance runs, but albeit higher on the funmeter, I didn't see how a sprint would help in this instance. Well, as it turns out I still don't have the stamina of 3 years ago. I thought by now it would have accumulated, but no! My legs were trying to reject my authority. But after 15 minutes, I made it around Lake Anne and back home. I admit I did slow down to a walk on a handful of occasions.
Fortunately, I can be stubborn when I want to, so I got back out today, even though it was colder. My legs hadn't fully recovered yet, so I did a shorter loop. We'll see what I manage to change before Charleston...
Yesterday's course did pass in front of our local wine-flower-chocolate shop, where I saw a reminder that the wine tasting was today. So I already know that this exercise thing has some benefit even if I'm too late to prepare for a strong showing in South Carolina.
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