So, this evening I was a little tipsy from several glasses of a pleasant chardonnay and I got home from watching Project Runway and, of course, it's time to do my push ups.

Now, I know you shouldn't exercise before bed if you hope to sleep, but that's the time I have to do this sort of thing.

Well, I skipped to day 2 of the one hundred push ups program and I maxed out at 50 pushups.  That's just 10 less than my initial max.  I predict that by the end of this thing, I will be able to EASILY do 100 pushups.  I actually think I can do 100 pushups now if I were willing to push it a little.

I am doing this with a group of people (by way of internets) and some of them started very low.  I mean, I started at 60 as my alleged max, but one person is starting with less than 10 as their max.

I told my trainer about this and he believes that there is no way that these people will make it to 100 in six weeks.  I am inclined to agree, particularly because I am a week behind them and only two others have logged their day one or day two maxes.  This makes me think they aren't really working at this.

Also, tomorrow, one of my coworkers is bringing in this Nike thingie her boyfriend bought her.  It's a runner thing and it tracks how far and how fast she runs.

I have not endorsed this product because what I saw initially was that this thingie required Nike shoes.  I can't run in Nike shoes.  They're clunky, heavy, and they kill my feets.  I don't like them.  I wear New Balance or Ascics. (How do you spell that?)

Well, she says that her thing doesn't need the shoes, so I'm excited to see it.  I'm not keen on spending $60 on this, but I would spend that much on a watch and then forget to write my training down.  So, maybe it's worth it.

I'm excited to see it.

Tomorrow night, I'm going to see Lisa Loeb in concert.  Do you know about her?  I think she has one song.  Who knew she had concerts?  Still.  It should be fun.

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I started this One Hundred Pushups program last night because a friend of mine is doing it and it's fun to do things with friends.  I did my initial test and did 60 pushups.  Not bad.  I think I can do more, though, because I was very tired and sore from my weekend of volleyball, swimming, and gardening.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, a friend of mine ran his first half marathon and he did very well.  I actually think his time was the same as my first half marathon time.  I am very happy for him, but this morning he said he didn't think he would ever run a marathon.

This is ridiculous to me.  If you can run a half marathon, I'm convinced you should just go ahead and run a marathon.  I know that after my last half marathon, I could have run a full.

So, I am giving a lot of thought to taking up running again.  The only problem is that I hate my current schedule.  I think I will have to shift everything around so that I work out with trainer in the morning instead of after work in the evening.  Then, I could run in the off-mornings.

On the bright side, I discovered this website Run Your City which has running maps and blogs for NYC.

I haven't made up my mind about it yet, though.  Running is a hard sport to break into and it's hot out.  I run better in the cold.  I'm just SO out of running shape right now.

The first thing I need to do is get a new watch for running.  Maybe I'll look around for one at lunch this afternoon...

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