Fitness? What's that again?

The last few months I have not been at all active in terms of my fitness. I have had a lot of (fairly valid) excuses: moving, Thing-a-Day, cleaning the old place to sell. But all that's done now - I am out of excuses!
And r0ckc4ndy inspired me with her challenge to actually post about some fitness goals and hence perhaps make them stick a little better with some accountability.

So let's have some goals:

Take the stairs at work every day, every time (unless I'm with someone who's elevator-ing)
Take the stairs at home, at least 3x a week
Go to the gym 2-3 times a week: 2 mandatory, 3 desired

I'd like to achieve a better fitness level without re-injuring my knees. In fact, ideally I'll manage to have physical activity that helps my poor crackly knees. I'm not sure if I have specific results I'm looking to achieve other than that - but that'll do!

Okay friends, hold me to this!

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Okay! I went to the gym, and read while I recumbent-biked for 50 minutes. I am really enjoying this book, Solitaire. That plus music = totally didn't notice the first 40 minutes of the workout. Yay! And then I finished up with some weights and some floor stuff. I really like listening to the Podrunner podcast even when I'm not running per se - it's nice that it's an hour exactly, so even if I fail to pay attention to the machine's timers or if I'm moving around, I still know when I've done an hour. And the music's pretty good in a mindless-techno way.

And I took the stairs at home, before and after the gym. (The second time was definitely harder... I went slow.)

It felt really good to go back to the gym! I kind of like the feeling of sweat dripping off me. It's very cathartic.

And then I inhaled two big ol' tacos. They were deeeeeelicious. And I was hungry!

R's plan is to do something every day. I am not sure if I am up for that (unless stairs counts as "something") but I will see what happens tomorrow. My next planned gym visit is Thursday.