Yesterday, I gave blood again. It’s nice, they are starting to recognize me as a “regular”. The only thing that bothered me is that because of the injury to my foot ^[1], I haven’t been able to go to the gym after work for a couple of weeks now. It really sucks, because in just that short amount of time, my blood pressure jumped 15 points, and that’s not good. I can’t wait to see what it has done to my weight. Am I back up to an unenviable weight again?

One thing that I am going to not do is run every day. I think that is one of the major reasons that I sustained that injury. I will ride the bike one day, do the elliptical machine the next, and run the next, rotating through that progression so that I don’t cause myself any serious injuries like that again.

I really hate injuries like that. They make me feel like I’m growing old, when in fact, I am not that old. It’s just that it is going to take some time for me to get back to the shape that I was in fifteen years ago. I have to blame myself for getting out of shape in the first place. I’m the one who went for eight years without a serious workout, and now, I am paying for it.