Where to Begin?

• Had a conference in DC Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, which involved early mornings, late nights, and commuting in between. Barely time to sleep, much less excercise. I did not eat too many sweets or conference food though, so that's a plus.
  
• Our heat broke last week. Good thing we work too much.
• My computer decided to break last week. Hence the lack of blogging... who am I kidding? I didn't have time to blog anyway. But the Mac is back in business as of today.
• Worked out on Tuesday (3/24). The last time before that was the Tuesday before. It was a decent workout though, 3.5 miles and the ratio of running to walking was excellent considering the lack of excercise lately.
• I find it fascinating that 3.5 miles only constitutes a "decent" workout in my mind now. Two months ago I could barely walk for 2 miles without feeling tired and cranky.
  
• I also was pondering the American culture of laziness yesterday when I had to go down 3 levels, walk "all the way" from the mall, through the underground Metro access tunnel (the equivalent of crossing the street), and then up a level and into another building to get to a bookstore. At first I was like, "Really? That's not worth it..." but then realized that it really isn't that far and chastized myself for being so lazy. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like lots of people would have just gone back to their cars and gone to a bookstore with parking right next to it.
  
• I've decided I like the gym near my house way better than the one at work. Maybe because it's bigger and I don't feel that everyone is staring at everyone else. Plus it's newer, so they have crazy amenities like the cardio cinema and tvs in the (massive) locker room.
  
• My only gripe about the cardio cinema is that you never know when the movie is starting, so if you haven't seen it, it's kind of pointless to start in the middle. Plus, on Tuesday they had the director's commentary playing. Who does that? And especially why would you do that at the gym? The commentary is for people who love a movie so much and have seen it so many times that they need more info to sustain their obsession.
• I need to eat better. Not getting enough vegetables. Also need to get back in the habit of taking vitamins.
• Helen has encouraged me to stay in the half marathon, especially to see what a race is like. So at least one person reads my blog. :)
• I'm going to try for 7 miles tonight. It sounds soooooo long, and if I average 15 minute miles, it could take almost 2 hours. Hopefully I can run a fair amount of it though--I'll just try to run as far as possible in spurts and see what happens. (Yes, the iPod is fully charged!) Plus if I go right at 5 I can probably get a tv treadmill, unless they all have crapped out... Gold's Gym, why do you let them keep breaking and not fixing them?? What's the point in having them if you will let the cable be out all the time??
• Speaking of, someone needs to develop some TV glasses that I can watch while I run the marathon. The kind of thing that I can focus on but then shift my focus when I need to watch the road. Let's get cracking, people.
• I'm flying to New Mexcio on Monday and will be there for a conference until Saturday night. I'm not expecting to work out very much, but I will bring my running gear just in case. It would be really great if I could at least work out a couple of times.
  
• I need to blog more regularly. I really think it will help me stay in the running mindset and keep me pumped.