Day 3

This morning's workout:

2:00/1:30/1:00/0:30 back-to-back intervals of jump-rope and crunches

Without breaks, this would take 10 minutes flat. I had 15 or 30 seconds between each interval, so it took a little longer. It was nice to set a goal and get all of the way through the workout. I will be working towards the same time intervals with double-under jump-rope and full-range sit-ups, but for now, I'm happy with my accomplishment.

I am feeling moderately sore just about everywhere today. Not so sore that I would think that I pushed myself too hard, just sore enough that I know the exercise is making a difference.

No ideas yet what I'll do tomorrow, may try sets of bear crawls or crab walks for duration.

Day 2

I woke up this morning less sore than I had expected, but still dreading getting out of bed because that meant I had to go exercise. I hadn't decided what I was going to do this morning, but as I stretched out and warmed up, I decided on three sets of:

20 bar dips
10 hindu push-ups
30 cone hops

Got through the first set without too much trouble, but when I got to 4th rep in the second set of hindu push-ups, I ran out of chest. Tried to finish the set with standard push-ups, but I literally collapsed. Cone hops on the second set were finished out just fine, though I'm sure that my form was terrible, and I stopped there.

In retrospect, I should have pushed into the third set, but I didn't. I'm riding a fine line between pushing myself hard and being able to exercise tomorrow.

On the plate for tomorrow, modified from Monday's CrossFit.com WOD:

Jump rope for 2 minutes
Sit-up for 2 minutes
Jump rope for 90 seconds
Sit-up for 90 seconds
Jump rope for 1-minute
Sit-up for 1-minute
Jump rope for 30 seconds
Sit-up for 30 seconds

Not sure if I should be doing cardio as well, but this is enough to start, for sure!

Another Beginning

I started something new today. Up at 6 am, stumbled downstairs and tried to get through five sets of the following.

20 chin-ups
30 push-ups
40 sit-ups
50 squats

Finished the first set in 4 minutes, finished the second in another 9 minutes, never started the third.

All in all, a good beginning. :)

"It's been a long time since I've done anything musically creative - I seem to find great joy in the creativity that ones and zeros bring me these days. But it _does_ make me happy to sing again, and to be heard. This track (attached below) was just a little 2-hour burst of creativity. I know that it'll never be a career, but I know just as well that it will ALWAYS be a hobby, and a joy."

Little Song

On Overachievement

I really don't know when it happened to me. Looking back at the journey that my relatively short life has been thus far, there doesn't seem to be a single point at which I started, but today I am an overachiever.

This realization dawned on me last night when I turned to my father at dinner and said, "You know, writing simple applications in Visual C# isn't really that hard."  

As I contemplate this quote, I realize that I may be calling "overachievement" what should instead be termed "blind/naive optimism".

The point that I am meandering toward is that the person that I am today is parsecs from the person that I was five years ago.  Sure, I had aspirations of mastering Mill's Mess and becoming a professional musician, but these were things that I only half worked at, and with easily-discernible and/or imaginable success.  Today, the things that are simple are configuring DNS or making sure that the performance of my VMWare environments are up-to-snuff, and the things that are hard are keeping in touch with my closest friends and doing my best to not exceed my current level of over-commitment.  New on my list of long-term tasks to accomplish are "Be more like your old, fun-loving self," and "Have genuine interest in others, no matter how stupid you think their ideas are."

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”    I can't help but wonder what I gave up to switch to Dvorak.

Hello World

I've been threatening to start a blog for a while.  I fell into the mire that is geekdom approximately two years ago, and now that I have realized that I am stuck, I've decided that I should start contributing something.  If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?

So this is the beginning of my blogging career.  I am looking forward to posting my thoughts, feelings, and a _lot_ of esoteric information!