Day 43- Day Off

I’m afraid I’m getting more like my dear friend R.S. She hardly ever posts on time. I really must do better because I chastised her for not posting and now here I am posting Day 43 on Day 44.  It wasn’t even like I ran/walked at all on Day 43. It would have taken me all but one minute to type “Day Off” but I guess that would have been doing too much.

On Day 42, I did 3.34 miles and I was so proud of myself but had I had known then what I know now, I probably would have taken off Day 42 and ran/walked on Day 43 instead. That way I would have had two consecutive days of walking/running instead of having to take off on Day 43 because Day 42 was a DOOSIE to say the least. Day 42 involved a lot of city walking (which wasn’t bad) and steep stair climbing (which was really bad) ALL DAY. It wouldn’t have been so hard had I not already ran/walked 3.34 miles in the morning. My muscles were already in recovery mode.

See, one of the artists I work with did a particular television show on the USS Intrepid in Manhattan. First of all if you know anything about Manhattan, you know you have to park in damn near Africa to get to China. So of course I had to park nowhere near my destination, which meant walking a couple of blocks to the Intrepid to start off.

Then once I get there, I find out that green room was downstairs (three steep flights) on the lower deck and the concert was on the top deck. Needless to say, I had to run up and down the stairs all day. My thighs and buttocks were killing me by the time I left the city so I opted to take the day off. I was so tired, I couldn’t even blog about being tired the next day. Oh did I mention one flight of stairs was on the outside of the boat and I had to avoid looking down at all that water lest I pass out from vertigo? Apparently in my old age, I’ve become none to fond of heights.

In any event, I did not feel the least bit shamed for not exercising on Day 43. I did however prepare myself to get it in on Day 44, which we’ll get to in a moment. I enjoyed my day off and avoided going up and down my own stairs too much for the day in order to allow my butt muscles to recuperate. It did give me an idea for an additional daily workout. I will now go up and down my own stairs more often during the day to work on those gluteus maximus muscles. Every time I have to go up them, I will immediately go back down and go back up them again and then go to wherever I was heading. What do you think? Sounds good right? We’ll see how that plays out.

Ms. P