The Rocket is back!

It feels soooo cold in here! It's nice and sunny though... 36 degrees...

It wasn't easy getting up early this morning but I did it! And ran to work, the semi-long way. My right shin hurt a little at times but seems OK. I'm just not going to run every day for the next week or so, and be very aggressive with the cross-training. Oh, and the ultimate healing celebration takes place this Friday: The Legwarmers, my favorite 80's cover band, is playing in Falls Church, and the doc says I can take the rubber bands off and only wear them at night starting Friday, so I should be able to sing along a little! Jillzo, Aaron, if you're around, it's a show you won't want to miss!!!

I'm going to bike home tonight. Didn't bring gym clothes but I WILL BE GOOD and do some strengthening/core exercises when I get home I WILL I WILL I WILL!

Bad Lucia, Bad! Biked to work in the cool DC morning, but got a call from a friend from out of town to meet for dinner... so I failed to run in the evening or go to the gym. Not good. The worse part is, she was super late! I could've run 4 miles or gone to the gym for a few minutes if I had known she would be late. It is so disrespectful when people are late! I hate it hate it hate it! Ok, let's change the tone... happy, happy, joy, joy, happy, happy, joy, joy... It was good to see her anyway, and she's gone through A LOT in this past year. And I thought I had bad luck... She had to have back surgery twice (the first time didn't work) and then got gastric bypass because she had to lose weight fast and didn't have the will to do it the normal painful way like most of us... she had A LOT of complications from the gastric bypass surgery and ended up almost dying a couple of times. It's nice to see that she was able to overcome everything and she's looking good now, though she's still not exercising... some people just never learn... I'd pick an hour at the gym and eat a banana on the road to sitting down for dinner for an hour any time!

A cold and windy day in DC - biked 34 miles with my friend Will, who had hernia surgery a few weeks ago, but felt well enough to bike a little. We biked 20 miles together, and then I biked 14 more to get home. Not too shabby for a lazy girl like me! The weeping willows were soooo pretty on my way back home, I had to stop and snap a photo for everyone to see. Here they go. (again, thanks Mike!)