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Day 68: not so bad...


              When I started going back to the gym last week, I braced myself for the same 30+ days of aches and pains that I’d experienced 18 months ago, when I got serious about working out for the first time in years.

              As it turns out, my sporadic runs at fitness during the intervening time actually HAVE done me some good.

              Yes, the first couple of days were rough—in fact, I spent most of my Saturday last week laying in bed and groaning (but only AFTER I got my yoga class out of the way)—but with the help of a morning dose of ibuprofen each day, I gotta say, it’s not so bad.

              I attend a “bootcamp” (lots of reps of light-ish weights, lots of jumping up and down, all with very little time in between) 3 times a week. I was smart enough to tell the instructor that I was going to ease back into it—20 minutes the first day, 25 the second, and so on—but on Wednesday, I was a 40 of the 50 or so minutes.

              I still have to take more breathers than the super-fit chick who’s been the only other attendee during this holiday week, and I still don’t get to ALL of the reps in a particular set, but I figured it would be end of the year before I could do that, even painfully. It looks like it’s going to be a lot sooner than that.

              This is what, in weight watchers, they call a “non-scale victory”. And since I’m notoriously bad at celebrating those, I thought I’d better celebrate this one, stat.

              I DIDN’T completely reset to day 1 since day 1.

              Yay me.

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