Gym Jam

THE GYM VIRGIN HAS DONE IT KIDS!!!!!! THE BIG DAM BRIDGE AND I ARE NOW 1!!!!!!!!!

So Husband and I are coming back from April's and I tell him I am going to do the BDB thing once and for all. He says he will go to, only he is going to jog.

We get there and I need a bathroom. Today I started drinking more fluids and think I am going to explode. The BDB has a bathroom building, but dang it they have a closed sign on it. Next to the building is a port o potty. Well desperate times call for desperate measures. I put on my gloves and went in there. It was not as bad as I thought...it was worse. I will have to burn the gloves now, but oh well.

I can't find Husband and figured the man has already started jogging. I pull on my tobaggan and start the odyssey. Today, I am crossing this bad boy bridge off my list.

I walk and am doing pretty good...for about 3 minutes. The uphill starts to take its toll. I walk, I stop, I walk, I stop. I think if I can just get to the middle of the BDB I can sit on a bench and rest for a minute. I make the first curve of the BDB and want to die. I start thinking, why did I put this on my goal list? Why in the world did I try this BDB last summer? I must have been delusional.

I get to the center and park my bubble butt on the bench. I was there for about 30 seconds, when I started hearing the voices. I thought I heard the Husband telling me to get up and get moving. Then, I swear, I heard my sister in St. Louis, getting out her drill seargeant voice along with her whistle and I decided it was probably in my best interests to move it along.

I start the downhill slide and decide the BDB looks the same from this side as it does from the other side. I don't know what I thought would be over here, but this wasn't it. I got passed, TWICE, by a pack of old men who were reliving WWII and what should have been done. Then I got nearly run over by two idiots on racing bikes. I was kinda hoping they would crash. Then I got eyes rolled at by a gang of tween girls, talking on their phones and all but doing cartwheels on the BDB. Probably a bunch of cheerleaders. AGH.

Started the trek back over. Still haven't seen husband, but wonder if he is now in the car and if I don't come back will he come and get me? See some brush on the ground and think about building a fire and sending smoke signals to him. But, dang it, I don't have a match. I trudge on.

I get back to the middle of the BDB and again park my butt. At this point it starts to rain. After having fallen a year ago, in the rain, walking to work, I am petrified of that happening again. Literally petrified. I decide the comic Jerry Seinfeld is right. He says there is no difference between 'it's great' and 'it sucks.' Because at that moment I was thinking this sucks, but what I said out loud to the rain was Oh this is just great.

I decide it is time to haul myself off the bench and down the BDB before the downpour really starts. One foot in front of the other. I can do this. Finally, finally I see the end. I see Husband in the car and he is coming to meet me. Another 30 seconds, and it is all over.

I begin to think about the next time I will go to the BDB. After mulling it over, I suddenly wished I had a magic marker. Because I would have written on that Big Dam Bridge "The Gym Virgin was here and she ain't coming back. THE END"

Posted by Gym Virgin at 5:25 PM 1 comments

So Son just called...he wants to re-start the contest on Monday LOL...I love it...Husband CLAIMS he has lost 10 lbs...the man can't half see, I don't know if I trust his reading of that itty bitty # on the scale in a dimly lit utility room in our house. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I have lost 2 lbs. Why don't I get to be the people who lose like 8 lbs in 3 days????? Why, I ask you, Why???????

At my work, we are going to do a Biometrics deal on everybody. The whole world is going healthy!!! Well, my company has always been that way. They are awesome:)

Tomorrow, I am going back to the Big Dam Bridge. I am NOT coming home till I go all the way across it. So if you don't see me for about a week, send a rescue crew over to the dam bridge. hehehehehehehe

Posted by Gym Virgin at 9:06 PM 0 comments

So I am really liking this walk to work thing this time around. Maybe it is the winter cool air. Definitely beats the searing heat of summer when I wanted to lay down and die on the sidewalk. This time it is invigorating. Another 4/10 mile today:)

Posted by Gym Virgin at 11:28 PM 0 comments

Headache lasted most of the night. It was real bad. Today I will be walking to work again. So let's chalk up another 4/10 of a mile for the Gym Virgin.

Posted by Gym Virgin at 8:07 AM 0 comments

Parking in the parking lot again at work...no more tower:(...walked 4/10 of a mile today on that trek. My head is killing me. Haven't felt this way in a long time...

So here's the deal on the contest. Son is too lose 68 lbs. Husband and me... 40 lbs each. Whoever gets there first is the winner. The 2 losers have to pay the winner $ 2.00 for every pound they have not lost. Why does Son have to lose more you ask??? Son has to lose more than us because he is young and we are not. Plus he is young and is a man and they lose faster anyways. He will probably win:)

Posted by Gym Virgin at 7:40 PM 0 comments

9:15 am
Today.......................I will work out...I will hate it...But I WILL do it....I will do it because now I am in a race with Son, Husband, and maybe Daughter. There is money involved and I will NOT be paying these three!!!!!They will be paying ME!!!!!!!Details of our lucrative agreement will come tomorrow when I see if April is going to sign on. We have a signed contract so far between me, Son, and Husband.

Laters, gotta go to work!

4:43 pm
Today.....................I did the recumbent bike.........15 minutes.....mountain climbing program..........3.31 miles.....didn't have time to change.............3.31 miles in my work clothes and shoes.........i am so freaking hot.

Posted by Gym Virgin at 9:18 AM 0 comments

went to the little gym today at work. did 4.48 miles in 20 minutes on the recumbent bike. felt good to do that in the middle of the day:)

Posted by Gym Virgin at 9:41 PM 1 comments

Went out at 7:00 am and did 1/2 mile around my neighborhood block. At 7 am, I figure it's ok to twist and shout with Chubby Checker while walking in the middle of the street! At least in Gym Virgin land it is. LOL

Saw a neighbor's driveway and it had a hopscotch drawn on it. Glad to know that in this city there are children who still hop some scotch. We did that back in the day. Does anybody remember 4 square? I loved that game.

Later gators!

Posted by Gym Virgin at 7:34 AM 0 comments

I wanna dance with somebody....it's raining men...i think we're alone now...loco-motion...burning love...a little less conversation and a little more action...jungle love...the twist...lady marmalade...ain't no way...black velvet

This is my walk out music for January 2011. I went out at 7:30 am and walked 1/2 mile. yes, it hurt. but I did it. Stopped at the mail box station in my neighborhood and did step ups on the curb.

That's all for now, gotta go climb a mountain at work.

Posted by Gym Virgin at 8:10 AM 0 comments

So today is the first day of the best year ever! Today, I walked in Maumelle. I AM NOT A MAUMELLIAN. I can't afford Maumelle. But I do shop there and walk there. Today's walk include seeing the car wash (where I wash my car). Down the street is the new place called WokaWoka. I want to go there. Sounds like my kinda place. Next I saw this unbelievably gorgeous piece of machinery that ever came out of Detroit...a 1969 SS red with black stripes. The guy was standing there with his car and we talked. He restores cars. Said this little number would do a 100 mph easy. He wants $ 30k for it. I do so love a good looking car!!!!!

Posted by Gym Virgin at 6:27 PM 0 comments