Marathon Monday

Fun Fact: A street sweeper goes juuuuust about the same pace as a five foot five inch chick hurrying down Comm Ave to work at 8 am. Yup. What a great way to start the day, with the shit of Boston's streets getting swept into your lungs and eyes. Yum.

Just kidding, my day started about three hours before that. Since my Sunday consisted of nothing but sleeping, eating, and being pathetically lazy, I really wanted to hit the gym hard today. I'm not going to lie, it was very difficult rousing at 5 am. I almost always think there is a glitch with my alarm. Seriously, about every morning I think today is the day that the alarm lies. It doesn't. Maybe tomorrow though.

I also feel that every Monday is a marathon for me. I need to break the weekend sleep sched, hit the gym, catch up with voicemails, emails, deal with public trans. The day always starts too early and lasts too long. I also have not filed my taxes yet. whoops. whatever.

Anyways, in the spirit of today's holiday I decided on an intense 90 minute gym sesh. I mean tons of people were running 26 miles so, I could deal with an extra 30 minutes of sweat.

I started with an hour on the treadmill. Yes, one hour. I zoned the f out. I did sprints mixed in with just straight running. It was nice. Then I hit the weights.

I did four supersets. Basically, a superset is designed to work two completely different muscle groups so when you're performing one exercise, you can rest your muscles from the second exercise. I did three sets of the supersets....if that makes sense:

Superset 1:

A) Step-ups (onto a bench) 10 reps/leg 15 lbs each hand
B) Pushups - 10-12

Repeat 3 times without rest. Rest 60 seconds before moving on to the next superset.

Superset 2:

A) Bent over Rows - 8-10 reps/side 30 lbs
B) Leg Curl with the Stability Ball - 12 reps.

Repeat 3 times 

Superset 3:

A) Bicep Curls - 10 reps - 20 pounds
B) Cross Mountain Climbers - 30 seconds

Repeat 3 times 

Superset 4:

A) Lunges - 12 reps/leg - 20 lbs in each hand
B) Plank on the stability ball - 30 seconds

Repeat 3 times 


I know that most recently my blog hasn't been quite about working out, but that doesn't mean I haven't been active. winkkkk.

Kidding...or am I? No but really, I have been doing a lot of running to train for this damn half marathon that I have coming up and writing about running can get a little mundane. I have been getting a lot of feedback about my blog, both from facebook posts and in person. About 99% is positive, but I do have some haters out there! I'm not exactly sure why people read this if they don't particularly enjoy it or like me. I don't really care why some choose to hate on me, but I did feel the slight urge to address it.

This is my blog, and I can write whatever the fuck that I want to. Of course it's going to be about me because it's my "diary". I mean, I can definitely understand that some people's lives are a little boring and this might offset them. My main goal is to get a laugh, or to have someone connect with my thoughts and realize they're not the only ones thinking that. Besides that, I don't really write this for anyone but myself, I find it therapeutic. I don't take life seriously so I sure as shit am not going to take a fucking blog seriously. Come on.

But thanks for thinking about me, haters. I appreciate the time and effort you take to incorporate me into your life, I'm honored to be a part of it.

And to all you lovers - keep on lovin'. Because I'm not altering my content. Ya dig?