Thursday, June 3, 2010

Allergy fun

My allergies have been kicking up a storm the last week or so - I think it's because we had a lot of smoke drift over from Quebec. My lungs (and nose, and throat, and head) are much, much happier today, but running hasn't been entirely joyful this week.

Yesterday I cut myself a deal - if I ran rather than doing cross training (cross takes less out of me), I could do cross today. It turned out to be a wise move, since I was up working late late late last night and I wanted a bit of a lie-in this morning (Running in the middle of the day: Bad idea. Too hot. Air-conditioned gym? I can live with that).

Why is it, though, that when I spent forty-five minutes on the stationary bike, the only sore bits were my shoulders? (well, and my rear end, but that part at least makes sense) Very strange.

On the upside... Stationary bicycles: enabling the bookworm in ways that running cannot.

1 comment:

  1. I didn't even realize that forest fires were going on in Quebec... thanks for the heads up! My allergies have also cleared up (mostly), so that was probably it.

    Last year I read Pride & Prejudice exclusively at the gym. It was a really good motivator! I wanted to read more about Mr. Darcy, so I went to the gym! It worked well for me :)

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