Some Intervals

I made it out for some treadmill intervals last night, and it was meh, ok. First I had to walk about 2 miles up to Morgan's house to pickup my van. We had stolen a truck... actually he had my dad's truck and we needed to borrow it to move some stuff. Then we needed the van back, so I hoofed it uphill and recovered my vehicle. Drove straight to the gym and did 5 x 400 intervals at a 7.5 speed. total run was about 2.5 miles. I stopped it short of what I wanted to do, the shoes I had walked in left a blister or two.

Wasn't that a sexy leg pic I put up yesterday? It does show one thing that upsets me. I can't believe I can get that much muscle definition in my arms and legs, and keep so much body fat on my torso. They say you have to have the right genetics to get real 6 pack abs. I think I've got the genetics for it if I can get that kind of sculpting in my legs. And my arms are just as well defined. I have almost no visible bodyfat on my arms or legs, it just hangs on between my waist and man-boobs. Wait, we call them pecs. Plus my brother Michael keeps a nice little 6 pack handy. For years now I've claimed to have a 6 pack, i'm just keeping it protected, insulated, keeping it cold in the fridge. Then you make the joke "6 pack hell, i've got at least a case in there"!?!

and that's why I shouldn't write blog posts before my second cup of coffee.

But I really do want to ab-up for the summer. hitting the core work pretty hard, you know.

To answer the other question from the comments, yes I do shave my legs. I got into bodyshaving a few months ago. But not in the cool "this makes my junk look big like porn star" kind of way. It was more of a "wow, i had no idea my belly was this big until I had to draw a razor across half the circumference like that" depressing kind of way. Actually, it started with just shaving my nipples. Men get nipple chafing from loose shirts while running all the time. So to compensate for that, we cover the nip-nips with small band-aids. Ripping these band-aids off the first time was fairly painful. After that, not so much.

Then when I started swimming and biking more, the chest and legs got cleaned up good. Shaving is a pretty common thing for tri guys. Not having much (if any) body hair reduces drag in the water, air resistance on the bike, and it's just something we do; it makes me feel more connected to the multi-sport lifestyle as they say.

Besides, with legs like mine it would be a crime against humanity to keep them covered in hair! They gotta be silky smooth. Sexy. oh yea. But I still have to do something about the tan lines.

Tonight is the thursday night brick. time for more coffee.