I imagine that I'm not the only one who is startled to find that it's October. And I'm especially surprised that I let more than a month pass without doing a blog post while I was watching Roger Federer win the US Open in New York and eating Italian food in Rome and turning 41 in Venice and walking through San Francisco with my niece and loving my puppy who now sleeps through the night. I don't know when blogging became just another obligation, another of the 714 items on my To Do list, another thing that leaves me always feeling behind on everything -- and the longer I went without writing, the harder it seemed to start again. I thought I needed to do an update on all of the travels and zooming and scurrying I've been doing, but I'm just going to start with today, and try to post again tomorrow. I'll do September posts in my voluminous spare time. Ha ha ha. Ha.
I started October off right by going to a Monday morning cardio workout class with my friend Katherine and getting my heart rate up to 549 beats per minute, and then going to a yoga class. Tuesday I did an hour of Pilates apparatus and 75 minutes of yoga. Wednesday I did a private Pilates apparatus lesson and 75 minutes of yoga. Thursday I came up to Keystone and then rested since pretty much every part of me was sore. Friday I rested some more. Saturday I rested and took a 4 hour nap. Maybe I overdid the exercise thing a bit?!? Today I took the dogs for a nice 75 minute walk through our neighborhood in Keystone and feel pretty good. It's definitely harder here at 9,000 feet. I'm in Boulder for the entire month of October, so I'm trying to get into a good exercise pattern before travel picks up again in November. My 20th college reunion looms in June and I'd rather not be a marshmallow for that, and the holiday eating season approaches, and my damn doctor told me I need to lose weight. I'm doing this really radical and strange diet where you eat less and exercise more. Crazy. Let's see if it works.
And life is good. Brad and I were in the same place at the same time for almost all of September, and he's not traveling until October 30th, which is an enormous change from the first 8 months of the year. It's great to be together. We have big plans for the afternoon -- watching the Broncos while Brad runs on the treadmill, and then maybe even watching the Rockies, and then napping on the couch.
Tomorrow is Monday again already. I'll be closing up the Keystone house and driving the dogs back to Boulder and making peanut butter chocolate cheesecake in preparation for a nice dinner with friends at our house on Tuesday. And I'm sure I'll get some exercise in somewhere. And a blog post, too.
If you're in Boston for your reunion, let us know. We'd love to see you if you have time.
Posted by: Steve Bergstein | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 08:28 PM