Proper phone number rhythm:

bah-bah-bah…bah-bah-bah…bah-bah…bah-bah

At the dry cleaners today:

So your number is 2, eighty one, 5, fifty five, seventeen, five, four, right?

“It’s not that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers. It’s the fact that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurses office because they super glued their balls to their inner thigh.”

-John Stewart, The Daily Show

The past couple months I’ve been getting a 3-4 mile run in about 4 times a week, but after hitting a plateau I’ve added a new idea to the mix: circuit training. I’ve done basic weight lifting before but this time with circuit training I’m focusing more on keeping my heart rate up the entire time I’m lifting.

My first experience with circuit training was a couple weeks ago and I worked with a trainer to get a good rhythm going. That day was brutal. A circuit with the legs, then upper body, and finally abs. It was a full hour with only a couple water breaks. It took me a couple days to full recover from it, but my subsequent workouts, while still tough, haven’t required the same recovery time.

The question remains if this new addition is going to help me overcome my latest plateau…