Greg's Running Blog

Wow! I have almost forgotten that this category even exists, that’s how long ago it’s been since I have written an entry for it. As much dedication and determination I have started my holiday break with things didn’t exactly work out as planned. I have skipped four consecutive cardio days in a row.

For two of them I kind of have an excuse. Me and my wife went to the movies. Sicne we don’t have family in town it’s very seldom that we get to leave the house without the kids. Since my father-in-law is spending Christmas with us this year we managed to sneak out after the kids went down for sleep two nights in a row. Right at the same time when I usually get comfortable in front of the TV on my elliptical machine. So I skipped the cardio on these two nights as well as two other nights to which I don’t even have a good excuse. I actually kind of do. I was putting together a toy for my son and I was up until 2AM tinkering with it instead of doing cardio. Not a solid excuse but an excuse nevertheless. I’ll post more about the toy once I take some pictures of it.

As to what we watched at the movies the first night we saw “It’s Complicated” which was a pretty decent movie for the time and the next night we watched “Avatar 3D” which was excellent. I’m usually not into these kind of movies but this one was done so well it was mind blowing. The 3D was fantastic and the visual effects were awesome. My friend has called it a ‘visual feast’ and he was absolutely right. I could certainly see how the movie ended up costing so much but it was so worth it. One of the nicest most amazing visual effect movie you could see for sure. I highly recommend it.Star Wars can’t even hold a candle to it. And watch it in 3D if you can, it’s great.

As for the cardio session I had it was rather uneventful, I could feel that I haven’t done any cardio in 4 days, my heart rate stayed pretty low the entire time and my calories burned matched it.