I hope you'll indulge me in a longish story of how I became a comet cowboy, or “How to tell you're a geek...”

...One way of telling you're a geek is when you spend most of the off hours of the week planning for the public observation session of your astronomy club on Saturday night. With a small 90mm telescope, my options are limited. It's great for ( Read more... )

It was a later time today, at the new club.  Today I hit the first real wall of not wanting to go.  A little inspiration from the PNBWife helped, though!  Finally I got out, and as I got on the treadmill I started feeling better, the last fifteen minutes felt easy, and when it was done I thought, "Wow... it's over already?  I'd like to keep going!"

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Swimming was the order of the day, especially as I packed my bag last night and had no other exercise shorts in there. Got out late, again... the biggest part of this, though, is clearing frost.  PNBWife has offered to clear her own car, but this is one of those manly things I do to prove myself as a husband (more to myself than anything.)  ( Read more... )

Monday, and it was bike/treadmill day. (While I hope that exercise is a [lifelong] habit, I hope I'm not developing a rut.) The recumbent bike gave a most satisfying fourteen-minute burn on random mode, pushing me in the last four minutes harder than I've gone on it before. Funny - about three-four minutes in, I was thinking that it wasn't ( Read more... )

...Sabbath from exercise, that is ( Read more... )

The nice thing about the weekends is that I'm not limited to a half hour maximum.  So it was 60 minutes on the treadmill at 2.8 mph with random elevation changes (10 out of 20 intensity with max elevation 7.8), plus seven minutes of cool-down, for a total of 3.02 miles and just over 800 calories burned.  My heart rate was significantly lower this ( Read more... )

30 Minutes of Racquetball practice, it was.  I know that I wasn't pushing myself as hard as last time.  And no, this isn't just a repeated theme  from prior entries because it felt easier.  Last time I think I was overpushing a bit, butressed by the feeling like I'd strained something a tiny bit  under my swinging arm.  I feel like The Doctor in ( Read more... )

...Isn't.

It was just one of those days when everything feels off a beat or two.  Starting with going outside this morning and seeing little ice chips coming down and accumulating just a tiny bit.  It never did "snow" - just little tiny bits of ice precipitation falling down until late morning.

I really didn't want a slow-track-walk day.  I wasn't ( Read more... )

Nikki and I did go to the clothing store today.  No swim trunks in stock.  :(  But we did get two pairs of gym shorts for me, so I only have to wash exercise clothes once a week.  We also ordered a pair of swim trunks, to arrive sometime in the next 6 days or so.

I thought laterally, and decided to go to the other, newer club of the two today.  I ( Read more... )

I did settle upon the Racquetball court for some solo practice.  (First time on a racquetball court in 9 years, and I'm really dangerously overweight for the sudden motions and fast action of a game.  Much practice and weight loss will be had before actually playing someone else on court.)  23 Minutes.

Today was a series of unfortunate events:

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