Balcony-Blitz:
On Friday, after nearly two months of haggling with our apartment complex, I finally got a free membership (just for the five months I’ll still be here) at the complex gym - over the last few months they’ve been offering a year’s free membership to new tenants, and we decided that after living here for nearly seven years (longer than anyone else) it’s about time we were entitled to a free membership too.
Somehow, I managed to haul my still half-sleeping ass over to Le Club - as the Frenchies like to call it - in the wee hours of this morning. I’ve been lazing away doing nothing over the last few months, and if I’m to stand any chance of doing a bit competitive rowing in Canada in the summer, I need to start making up for lost time.
Overdoing it on the first day back is always a risk, and that’s just what happened this morning. A 15-minute warm-up on the stationary bike, a few sets of benchpress and a few other things (limited selection of equipment), another 45-minutes on the bike… HURL! Thank goodness the bike is right next to the door that leads onto the balcony, and thank God that the door was unlocked. We’ll try again tomorrow.
