As always, a busy day at work. But I've been "sticking to it" and hitting the gym during my lunch hour. Today, I got there, changed clothes and jumped on the treadmill. I got my stride going, and was just getting into a real rhythm, completing my first quarter mile when .... ZZZZZZzzz ..... we lost all power. The dim emergency lights kick on, the folks using weight machines and the ellipticals were OK - they don't require power to run. And I thought "hmm, I could stick this out, hop on some other machine ...." BUT without power, there's no AC. Now, I'm not a wimp - ok, not MUCH of a wimp - but it's 105 outside, and there is no AC and no fans. And I have to go back to work after this. I grabbed my cell phone and found my way into the ladies' changing room (where there are no emergency lights) and by the dim light of my cell phone, I'm trying to dial up the combination on my lock. I usually leave my glasses in the car when I'm working out, so add in a whole lot of squinting in the dim light and I'm praying "please open please open please open" and click, it did! Hooray!
Get out of the gym clothes and back into street clothes, hoping I don't leave anything behind, or wear anything inside out! And the thought occurs to me: Power may be out in MY store as well, since we're kaddy korner to the local PF. So I zipped around a major block because street lights are out and not all Arizonans stop for street lights not working! I didn't want to try and cross 6 lanes of traffic, so I took the scenic route back to my store. And nope, power wasn't out! Thank goodness!
Needless to say, I'm feeling a little bit cheated on my workout, but that's ok because with all the heat and being really busy in the store, I've still managed over 14k steps again today!
I know that whatever I need to do to reach some new goals won't happen overnight, so I'm trying to be patient, and consistent. And I'm trying new things. Today's new: vegetable lasagna
It was pretty good! I'd buy it again.
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