not as sore as I thought

Last night I did my first full gym session. No orientation, just doing all my routines, in 3 sets of 12 reps, plus my cardio, plus my stretches (sort of), the whole shebang. I can feel it, but you know, I ain't broken. I wasn't sure how long I should wait in between my 3 sets of 12 (how much rest), so I just paused, stretched, and when I felt I could start again, I did. Most of the machines I reached the end of my sets with little difficulty, some I reached, but it was a strain, and 2 machines I could not finish my 3 sets (1 of them I could not finish 2 sets, need to lower the weight on that one maybe). The cardio was annoying, because I can't get my damn feet in the brace straps over the bike pedals. I ended up popping off one strap, and just stepping on top of the other one. Biking for 30 minutes when only your toes are on the pedals is murder on the feet. I am going to figure out how to unlatch those straps next time. I still forgot to bring my discman and a book, so I watched subtitled news in silence for the half hour *shrug*. Felt a little rubbery as I went back to the change room, but I'm more or less ok now.

Things to work on:
-My side sit-ups meant to target the obliques, .... aren't. I find my stomach is still doing more work than it should there, but I think it has to do with posture, I need to be more properly perpendicular to the floor.
-I can't......CAN'T arch my back to finish a hard push as the strain increases. Better to just stop my reps, rather than lifting the weight by contorting my back, it didn't feel good.
-I may need better shoes. One of the hamstring exercises and the biking was causing my soles to hurt quite a bit, which is not the idea. It may be my rather ancient and venerable running shoes.

best cookie EVER!

Speculaas is the best damn cookie concoction humanity has come up with. For those not in the know (how I pity you) it's a brown crumbly cookie made from among other things, cinammon, cloves, ginger, and sometimes bits of other spices. These are sometimes called windmill cookies, but make no mistake, the windmill cookies you can get at Loblaw's are ok, but only average. The dutch grocery store on Merivale rd. has a much superior brand that comes in 3" x 5" slabs that are quite frankly orgasmic. Not that I need this, not that I have the willpower to make the package of 3 such slabs last longer than the end of the evening, not that I may feel ill for having gorged on speculaas goodness...........damn they're good.

War

The us now has 156,000 troops in the gulf war region, meeting their deployment goal.

But of course they are hoping for a diplomatic solution.

Sure they are.