ParticipACTION

After almost one year of relative inactivity I'm finally back to having a somewhat regular work out schedule. A week ago a friend convinced me to use my work place's new gym. It opened in December but the university has not promoted it too much. I had known about the new building since December but procrastinated with walking to it after work. For some reason I had thought that it was much farther than it was. I went twice with a friend who had his car and today I walked over after work and caught the late bus home.

I'm done work at 3:30 and can be in the gym warming up within 15 minutes. My work out lasted just over one hour before I walked back to the library to catch the 5:30 bus home. It makes for a long day but I already feel better and have more energy after just three work outs. The place is practically deserted so there is no waiting to use machines. Unfortunately there is no pool but that may come in phase two of the expansion project.

Darcy and I were watching episodes from season three of the Canadian sitcom Corner Gas and one show featured a parody of the old 1980s ParticipACTION Do It tv ads. I hadn't heard the catchy theme music in about twenty years so naturally I had to check online for the ads. The University of Saskatchewan has a great archive of them.

Yesterday I got up at 7am and drove to Dubai to the country's only decent bike store to buy an indoor bike trainer. The mark up is about $50 USD more but it's worth it with not having to worry about having it shipped overseas. It's getting pretty warm outside now so my days of walking on the corniche are coming to an end. But now I can cycle inside in my exercise sanctuary room.

I paid for the last of our plane tickets for our summer vacation in Canada. It's not cheap flying domestically in Canada and the money that we had left over from our travel allowance with flying home from Abu Dhabi is used up. We leave in two months!