Last semester, I was meeting a fellow student at the gym twice a week to get some exercise. However, he liked to start very early, and if I wanted to be doing PT before dawn, I'd still be in the Corps! (Strangely, he was a night owl. He worked out early because he was still up most days.)

For the spring semester, I've been continuing to commute to campus by bike, but it's a short trip. I put in some decent road bike miles in the warm spell a few weeks ago, but my enthusiasm waned as the temperatures dipped again.

I spent most of today at home, doing lots of reading and a little writing. At around five, I realized that the sun was still up, there was little wind, the air was about 50°, and I had some new tights from an end-of-season sale to try out.

So I kitted up, making some disturbing discoveries in the process. Now, I knew I was about 20 pounds over my ideal weight, most of that having arrived in the last three months. But putting on skintight workout gear kind of emphasized that fact. Also, not having done any weights or calisthenics has caused my chest to shrink enough that my heart-rate monitor kept sliding down until I tightened the strap by a couple of inches.

Thus looking quite silly, I took off at a conservative pace. Sadly, my lack of running meant what had been a conservative pace is now an aggressive one. The final mile home was at a 14 minute mile, which is to say I would have moved faster by just walking. My pride forced me to maintain a halting shuffle regardless.

I shan't be sharing this particular run's GPS record. But now I've got a good baseline to improve from!

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