Didn't quite make it to 2.8 and I was on elliptical machine #1, which surprised me considering how late I got to the gym. But at 1 pm on a Monday, it's pretty empty. The Senior class has gone home and the HS kids haven't shown up yet. Wind Breaker is actually already pedaling on #3. I guess someone else was on #1 before I got there. Technically, I should've done program 2 but I spaced out and selected #1 out of habit so that's the program I did.
It's still winter so the air is cold and dry, my skin has developed fissures in spite of being slathered with petrolatum. On the elliptical, my back and scalp start to itch as I overheat just under the sweat threshold. Which means, until I actually bust a sweat, my skin reacts badly with intense pinprick itching. I scratch a lot until I get relief. I've tried applying moisturizing lotions to my skin before hitting the gym but that doesn't help. I feel very high maintenance a lot of the time.
Definitely no gym tomorrow as I have a meeting with my tax prep person, and I'm not anticipating any good news. So, maybe I'll be back at the gym on Wednesday. It'd be good if I could get myself back to a 3 or even 4 day workout schedule, but honestly, I have so many other things to do that it's been easy to just not go... although my sciatica does complain when I don't go.
Actually, it's been acting up lately and I suspect it was a careless move on my part: an easy stretch that I should not be doing ever anymore -- sit crossed legged on the floor and lean forward. I can do it and rest my elbows on the ground in front of my feet, but I shouldn't because while it doesn't hurt when I do it, the movement inflames my sciatica and I'm in a bit of pain for a few days afterward. Hence the old adage: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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