Over the weekend the first person besides myself and my wife noticed I'd lost some weight. It was my sister-in-law, and she sees us with probably just the right amount of frequency that she'd pick up on a little loss. Still, it felt good. I've also noticed my arms shaping up a little better. Once upon a time I had really nice looking, large, muscular arms. A long way to go, but heading in the right direction again.
I've struggled to find time to work out lately - it's really been 15 or 20 minutes max, for the past two weeks. Still, I'm squeezing in something, where before I wouldn't have. I've also been taking that opportunity to work on improving my speed, since normally I'd run the treadmill at the 10-minute mile pace. Today I did a mile in better than 8:30. I don't know that I could sustain that for much more than a mile, but it feels like a small accomplishment, given my usual plodding pace. Again, a long way to go, but heading in the right direction.
It feels good to make progress. Along those lines, I'm hoping to post tomorrow.
I have my first pt appointment this afternoon. Since last friday, when I stopped wearing the sling during the day, I've been working on exercises recommended by my surgeon. I can now reach to the top of door frames by "climbing" up walls with my fingers. That's an improvement of about two feet from my first attempts. Last night, I was able to use regular floss (instead of those stupid flossers) again for the first time since my surgery.
Small victories.
Also, I've been walking about a mile and a half per day.
Why is this the first I'm hearing about your shoulder surgery?
See, no one pays attention to me, despite my best efforts to cultivate sympathy. I hate you all.
First a Pepper, now a brianS - what a good couple of weeks for new recruits. Welcome to the home of half-bakef crap! How long have you been lurking?
/whispers over his shoulder, "Who's this guy?"/
That's just cold.
2.5 miles in about 24 minutes. Way better than the mile runs I've been getting lately. I picked up the pace (between 9:30/m and 8:30/m during mile #2, but that completely destroyed me for the last half mile. Still, more distance and time running feels good. Soon enough I'll be up for a 5K.
If you schedule a 5k, I'll join you! I'm only about an hour from Mankato and need to do a couple 5k's to keep me interested in running.
8 mi run along Ramblas in Montivideo. Very hot, but relatively flat. Cool architecture along the way helps eat up miles.
ND Class B Boys Basketball Tourney this weekend. This is the premier HS sporting event in the state. I don't really care about at all anymore, but it used to be a must watch. When I was in college, it was in Fargo and two nights in a row, I was right at the window when tickets sold out. I managed to sneak in both nights :). My roommate's hometown was in the tournament and suffice it to say, we had guests and no one slept much.
Anyhow, first round yesterday: all four games were within four points. Onto the semi-finals is the town closest to SBGville that has a school (and is not co-oping with SBGville). Go Bison! (Not the NDSU variety, but the HS closest to SBGville.)