I'm sewing!

I did my two miles of rowing, then worked out with the kettle bell (love that over free weights!) and decided I wasn’t in the mood to spend twenty minutes of my day driving to and back from the walking trails, so I did my two miles on the dreadmill.  I just can’t figure out how walking on a treadmill and walking on ground can offer such a different workout, but it does.

When I walk the trails (they’re pretty flat) I walk at about 3mph, and by the time I’m through, my thighs are on fire and my entire body is pooped.  It takes me forty minutes to walk two miles. When I use the dreadmill, I walk and jog, and can cover two miles in about 33 minutes, and the only muscle in my body that gets a workout from it is my heart, it definitely pumps more, but only because of the faster pace.  Sometimes, I get cramps in the muscles around my shins, but that’s it.

Anyway, I save quite a bit of time by walking at home, and since I baked and did some housework yesterday, and I made enough Beef Szechuan and rice yesterday for leftovers tonight, I think I’m going to spend the day sewing!  My back and feet are too sore for much else anyway.

I need to finish the pink and green toddler quilt I started.  Nope, I haven’t touched it since I posted pictures a couple of weeks ago with the two blocks… I better get cracking!