Day 17: Is It Safe?

I had a rather strange incident today whilst doing cardio. I popped in my Flaming Lips documentary, as I wanted to do a review of it but hadn't yet watched the special features, and started my cardio. Everything was good, I was running at my usual pace, and the Flaming Lips were entertaining me with their odd brand of sometimes spacey, sometimes kick-ass, sometimes psychedelic alternative rock. But then, when I had about 10 minutes left, my elliptical machine had a SHIT CONNIPTION. See, the way my elliptical works is that the two platforms to put your feet on are each on their own separate rail, and I guess I pushed it too hard or something, because the left platform actually FELL OFF the rail with an obscenely loud bang. I paused the machine, and kind of just stood there in shock and awe for a couple minutes, and then decided that I'd be damned if a piece of faulty equipment was going to stop my workout, so I put it back on the rail and resumed.

Besides that odd occurrence, everything else about the workout was fine. I upped the weight for my Bicep Superset thingy just a little bit, from 12.5 to 15, and it gave me a really nice workout. Everything's feelin' awesome, though I still need to work on the kickback form a little bit.  Otherwise, s'all good.

Unfortunately, I'll be going to Ottawa from Sunday to Tuesday visit my Grandfather while my sister is in from school.  This means that I'll be missing an entire three-day cycle!  D'OH!!!!!  I'll be doing whatever body weight stuff I can do, which isn't too much.  Obviously I'll get back to the workout on Tuesday, instead of taking what would have been a break day.  It blows though!

On another note, there was a hilarious episode of the Daily Show on today. Go here to check out the fantastic segment.

-Daniel