I worked out 5 times last week. FIVE.
And I ran 5K!!! Not a 5K race, as in against other people, but I have been hitting the treadmill hard lately, and I ran 5K on Friday night! Super proud of myself. Through all of my excitement, I barely noticed that the room was spinning.
Unfortunately, what I did notice were my toes... which don't like to run. After pulling the shoes off my aching feet, I found that the second toe on each foot was badly bruised and swelling. (Gross alert). They were starting to hurt so bad that I actually had to puncture the nail on each foot to leach the blood out and relieve the pressure. The rest of the weekend was spent heating up needles to take care of the blisters that were causing my toenails to lift off my foot. Nice, huh? Aren't you glad I shared it with the world?
I am shockingly unphased by this "injury", even though for the first time in my life, I have a real excuse to avoid exercise. (Andy tells me that "The Golden Girls is just starting" doesn't count as a real excuse). I think it is because I finally feel like I am getting somewhere, and I am pumped to keep going and in a few week, sign up for a 5K race and check that off my 101 list.
Naturally, I have to balance all this workout out with some down time... like reading. Which I have been doing quite a bit. Reading the Bible, specifically the Old Testament. Another one on the 101 list. I have read parts of the Bible before, but never all the way through. I was actually surprised to find how many generations of Adam I still had memorized from who knows when I even learned them. I was more surprised to find out how much sex is in this book. Dang, yo!
I will admit that it is a bit of a tough read, so I am going to be taking it in stages. Read Genesis - Exodus, take a break and read something a little less steeped in history and repetitive phrasing. Then return to the Good Book again before firing up the next read in the cue on the old Kindle.
Started exercising furiously and reading the Bible in the same week. Who saw that coming?
