i come undone. first i couldn't get started but i did and .... now i've already washed up and i'm still running > 100bpm. i need to remember i can't push this much yet. when i started running, years back, and would get a stitch, i would slow or walk until it remitted, then pick up the pace again. no problem. i can't seem to get through my thick skull that i am currently

-- almost 10 years older
-- a good 40 lbs heavier
-- those almost 10 years i was holed up and much less active than ever in my life

it follows i cannot expect my body to do what it did before. pulse still 100. sht.

today's program (changed impromptu from planned Heart CD) ... had Abba on hand...

Dancing Queen - stim song, always LOVED it
Knowing Me, Knowing You
S.O.S.
Voulez-Vous - got stitch towards end
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - cooldown

...for a total of ~ 15 mins workout + ~5 mins cool down. Sort of. That song I did not pick - I should have picked another or just stopped.

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you know, it is freaking difficult to navigate angular furniture, tv's and oscillating fans, moving fast while TETHERED (albeit with a 5 yard cord) to a dang laptop!!! today i dang near took myself out! i do have strategies... i wrap some of the cord around one wrist... unravel as necessary, change hands when i turn, etc.... but BOY, takes a bit of the "feeling" out of the music and motion, ya KNOW???
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i feel less quaky now - my heart must have gone back into its socket thank goodness. i am having problems with coughing again lately, dunno if it is just allergies or my lungs "purging" because i abused them for four months... sigh, never learn. voice a bit trashed too. anyway today after pushing past the stitch, i ended up with chest pain (now gone) probably need to follow up with the pulmonologist - i dropped the ball on that, partly due to cost.

92 bpm now. ok i'm good. AND i'm done, whew. gonna feeling my ankles tomorrow. and goodness knows what else. oh boy. I KNOW WHY doctors don't prescribe exercise: because their patients would NOT COMPLY regularly enough, that's WHY!!!! they need to invent an exercise PILL.

~ waves ~