Wah, my calfs are sore. Three consecutive days of walking 16 to 17 laps, half of them backwards, are making their effects known. But I feel good. That's more than 10,000 steps a day. Wish I can do it everyday but that's unlikely. Although with the long daylight hours now, I should probably try to squeeze in at least half an hour each day. I prefer to walk on a race track than on a trail because I can better count my distance that way. And safely walk backwards. The weather here is simply superb for walking.
My new walking shoes arrived several days ago and they are already dusty and slightly rust red from the dirt track at Central Park used by Iron Horse kids for their PE. Reminds me of how the tennis players' shoes and socks look like from playing at clay courts in the recent grand slams.
This weekend has been relaxing. I have intentionally not worked on Friday, my day off except for an occasional Blackberry email. Need to free up my mind a bit so next week I can focus on the rest of the year. I want to revisit my love of reading and books. Since getting into IT, I have been reading less and less. Somehow, the fast pace of IT has invaded my senses and I lost the ability to just lay back and finish a good book. The mind refuses to stay still and the attention span has been gradually becoming shorter and shorter. I have lost the patience to complete even a chapter without the mind wandering off. And the telly too has been a bane. It aggravated the attention deficit. I am beginning to feel the loss. So now, I have started reading Mean Genes (from Nic who insisted I must read it to the end) and found myself regaining the joy of just holding a book in my hands, shutting out the world and letting the words come to life.
The Kindle 2 should help. As should the end of the television season. Watching replays of my favorite TV shows just does not appeal.
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