A Weekend Refuel
I never, ever thought I’d be addicted to running. Of all the things to get addicted to, I never thought a physical effort that qualifies as exercise would be possible. I’ve had to take a couple days off because of hip and knee pain–looking back through my training log I see I jumped my mileage by five miles (or about 40%), which was WAY TOO MUCH. So it’s back down in duration for a while, then a reasonable mile-every-2-weeks increase for a month or two.
As long as the zombies don’t chase me for more than four miles, I think I’ll be all right.
The weekend was restful. On Saturday I took the kids to the community centre. We spent about four hours shooting pool (I taught the Princess how to rack, break, make a bridge, and sight) and playing table tennis. I was exhausted afterward. I mean, come on, table tennis? But apparently that burns a helluva lot of calories. We were all tired and cranky afterward, so it was Thai food and a retreat home to watch movies and fold laundry.
Sunday was equally uneventful. I didn’t leave the house all day, except for a spring amble between rainshowers down to the store to fetch necessaries for dinner. The Prince resented being pulled away from his video game, and we talked about how we might need to limit his time on the games if he keeps up stamping and sighing when he’s called away from them. After that discussion he was noticeably more sanguine about interruptions.
All weekend I could feel my emotional reserves being refilled. Now the next two scenes in the book are ready inside my head, which means ready to go out my fingers and onto the screen.
But first…I’ve got to run. As addictions go, I like this one. I think I’ll keep it.
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Tags: novel madness, slight pause for station identification
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
more than four miles
If zombies overheat while shambling, then it would speed up decomp, so you need to figure how far to run before their legs fell off.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
I wanted to mention – after seeing you talk about it here, I went hunting for shovelgloving and have started doing it. It’s great! I walk a lot, so have no problem with lower-body exercise, but hadn’t found an interesting, simple, useful upper-body exercise before. I’ve only been doing it for a couple days, but I’ve already noticed increased arm strength (yes, my arms were pitiful), and it’s fun! I want to try the ‘storyline’ idea, but just doing a batch of the ‘useful movements’ is interesting in itself. Thank you!
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:52 am
The idea of overheating zombies fills me with unholy glee. Just sayin’.