Gym log

After much persistence, things have started looking better with gym visits. Run time has improved drastically and it has resulted in much niceness. If anyone cares, here is my little log of what it looks like so far:

Week of 7th September
Running/Jogging 4.25 miles (55 min.)
Cycling 5 miles (20 min.)
Cross training, climbing (10 min.)
Rowing, 25 cal. burn (15 min.)

Week of 14th September
Running/Jogging 4.75 miles (60 min.)
Cycling 4.5 miles (20 min.)
Cross training, climbing 1 mile (15 min.)
Rowing, 30 cal. burn (15 min.)

And, and, week of 21st September
Running 5.25 miles (65 min.)
Cross training, 1.5 miles (25 min.)
Abs crunches (20 min.)
Yoga (10 min.)

This is generally, 5 times a week now. And it has started to feel really strange (depressed would be more appropriate a word) if I miss a visit. Needless to say, I love running the most amongst everything when its coupled with good music. I think, if I could, I can do this forever, just like reading, without a break, till I am reduced to just bones, perhaps. I am at most peace while I am on treadmill, there is certain sense of clear thinking when I am on the go. To arrive and cross 5 miler wasn't easy. There were blocks, both mental and otherwise. It took time and efforts and I am happy nevertheless. I am starting to wonder if I can dream of half-marathon. May be, not a good idea to take big leaps in hope!

Cleared...

...just some dust from my ipod (figuratively as well) and discovered an old beautiful song, in my collection. As I recall, it was a one time wonder by a group called 'Partners in Rhyme'. Their glory faded with time. Although, it left an impressionable mark to those it mattered. It did.

It brought back few things that I had missed within me probably sorely. My quieter reflective self where I do not feel the need to talk in words to prove my physical presence and how much I cherish my solitude which is so different from loneliness. Often the two, mixed and misunderstood.

I love the serenity, quietude, pensive, distant closeness, inexplicable bonding and ethereal companionship to stars and dark bluish gray sky feel in the song. Perhaps, something similar to the mixed feelings gushed through while sitting by the window of a plane, in the night time, before it takes off to traverse over an ocean to reach another country?

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