Jan 31

Today, between running kids to birthday parties, I was able to get in a 4.5 mile run. I had to go to the gym becasue alot of the roads were still icy and did not want to risk me wiping out. It was a fairly good run.

Mile 1 9:06
Mile 2 8:34
Mile 3 8:12
Mile 4 7:40 with a half mile cool down.

As always though, there is always something that strikes you when you go to the gym, and this time it is cell phone usage. Now my gym has no posted rules regarding cell phone usage, so it is what it is. But this guy walks in chatting on his phone looking for a treadmill, he finally gets on one and concludes his call. 5 minutes later, this guy s dialing his phone and then he starts chatting, loudly, about his weekend. It sounded like a boring weekend also, but I digress.

Now I really am not one of those people who judge others efforts at the gym. You never know who is rehabing, coming back from illness, starting a new workout or what, so the intensity is not that important to me. But I hate to see someone taking up a spot and just chatting. I doubt that I would ever say anything to them, but that is another reason I started this litle blog, so I can bitch about whatever I want!

Now before anyone gets all crazy on me, I understand that people need their phone to be around in case they get called by work or an emergency. I get that, but I do not get someone making a personal call and trying to workout, and I do not want to hear his conversation. Anyways, dude lasted about another 5 minutes before he left and went to another part of the gym.

I left a "no cell phone policy" suggestion in the suggestion box. I doubt it will change anything, but I tried.

Anyways, tomorrow is my 13th wedding anniversary, so more on that tomorrow!

Jan 29

Well I am back for a minute or until Jesse wakes up. It has been a very busy month for us, but also a great month. As you know, we added on to the family and baby is doing great. Mom is also doing extremely well, we are just trying to figure the baby out and get into a schedule. His older brothers are pitching in and helping, but they also seem to need a little more personal attention, so I feel like I constantly have someone on me, either holding the baby or one of the older boys crawling on me.

Also we are in the midst of trying to refinance our house. Going from 7% down to 4.8125% which will drastically help out, so we are excited about that.

Training is also going well, I have really kicked it up a notch and balanced out my training. I now am doing 2 swims, 2 runs and 2 bikes a week. This has increased my mileage totals dramatically, so look out MIM Triathlon.

Now for my rant. you all know how I feel about the "resoluters" coming to the gym. Resoluters are people that join the gym as a New Years Resolution, and they only tend to get in the way and hog machines while not really doing anything. Well today I saw something that made me mad, even though it did not effect me.

I was running on the dreadmill (cause I did not want to fight the cold, if it is under 35, I run indoors) and on the treadmill in front of me there is a woman walking and chatting on her cell phone. Now there are people lining the walls waiting for a treadmill and here she is taking a stroll, yapping her gums on the cell phone. A classic "resoluter" move if you asked me. I so wanted to tell her to hang up and get to work, I actually felt bad for the people waiting along the wall. I hope there are rules about that, but i do not know. There is an indoor track upstairs that she can walk at her leisure if she wanted, but to tie up a machine so she can gab on the phone is just wrong.