Workout 01-Nov-2007

Time exercising.. 1:13:42
Time In Zone 1:00:45

Watch calculated limits: 116 - 151
Average Heart Rate 148
KCal/Fat: 1026 /35%

OK.. on to something new and different. My last workout method went from jogging in place/circles around my living room to jumping rope. Jumping rope actually took a little more coordination and was kinda fun. Well, kinda fun till my left foot started hurting, just about an inch up my arch from the ball of my foot.

That's what put me on hiatus for most of the last month. I figured if I strained something or if I caused hairline fractures it needed time to heal and I could resume.

Well, apparently, from my workout yesterday, i didn't wait long enough. So tonight was on to a new plan. My apartment complex does have a workout room, and it has elliptical machines, stair climbers, a stationary bike as well as weight machines.

I can feel a little bit of twinge there after today's workout, but we'll see if that continues. It's not much of a twinge and I had that just from the day's walking around at work.

The only reasons I haven't normally used the apartment complexes workout room are the hours (I basically gotta go right after work if I'm going to get in a workout) and the fact that most of the other users are one to two decades younger than I am. Call that a benefit or drawback to living in an apartment complex that is a 2 minute walk from a college campus. a 20 something female working out next to me, or in front of me is not what I call incentive, it's what I call "lets not make the nice girl uncomfortable, she's not here for your entertainment." So while I try not to ignore the fact she exists, I also did my best not to do more than that.

None the less the one gal that was in there when I came in left after I was there for about 10 minutes and a second one came in half way through my workout, put America's next top model on the workout room TV and then left after about 20 minutes.

Now maybe that's their normal workout time, but part of me feels they were just being safety conscious/smart when it comes to being alone in a workout room with an adult male they do not know.