Day 80: Matt vs. Life Fitness (continued)

I had all intentions of running this morning. I set the alarm, I got up, and it was raining.  Yes, ladies and gentleman, surprise, surprise… it was raining.  Thunderstorms rolled in somewhere around 3:45AM and continued on through the morning and well into mid-morning. 

How was the drive into work, you ask.  Well, thanks for asking.  It was awful.  A simple 40 minute drive up the highway took me about an hour and a half.  Stop and go and stop and stress.  Yes, I hate traffic, I despise traffic.  Traffic is my arc enemy.  If I was a super hero I would fight traffic and traffic jams.  My super hero alias would be The Un-Jammer (or maybe Traffic Man).  I don’t know but the point is my superhero power would be the ability to un-jam freeways and let my people drive at 90 miles an hour.  Is that too much to ask?

Okay, so traffic stress makes me tense and I needed to blow off that stress after work.  Rewind for a second:  The drive home was awful as well.  Cops and Hero Units (around Atlanta we have rapid response units to traffic accidents because the police are so slow to respond called Hero Units) everywhere.  It was exhausting.

Queue the corny montage of me getting home and changing.  I took a few minutes and played around with my USB drive again.  Life Fitness has a code as deep as the Di Vinci code and I must crack it.  Convinced that I had (even though I had not watch the tutorial videos available on the web side,  who has time for that) I rushed out the door to the gym to burn off the days traffic stress. 

I think I did a good job only to find my USB workout still didn't work. I made up my own treadmill set and it went something like this:

Start at 5.5 mile and hour for one song.

6.5 and 3 incline for one song.

5.5 and 6 incline for one song.

5.5 and 8 incline for one song.

3.8 and 10 incline for one song.

3.5 and 0 incline to catch my breath.

6.0 and 0 incline for 4 minutes.

7.0 and 0.5 incline for two minutes

8.0 and one incline for one minute.  (Thought I was going to die)

Cool down.

I got my heart rate up to 167 beats a minute.  It was almost too much.  In the end I tried to maintain a heart rate of over 140 although several times I topped 150.  It felt good tough.  In the end I was a spent and sweaty mess.  I needed it to burn off my traffic stress and relax a little. 

So that was my day.  Not all that great thanks to all the Atlanta drivers who insist on turning our interstate system into a red neck demolition derby.  I swear sometimes its personal and they do it just to anger me or maybe it’s just me.  Either way, I don’t know. 

Daily Recap:

Matt:  Stressed in Traffic… Killed it on the Treadmill 36 minutes.

Kelly: 30 minutes with a Personal Trainer then 30 minutes on the treadmill.