| Weekend, Olympics |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|11:26 am] |
After Friday’s diversions, I ended up totally wrecking my weekend. I didn’t work out on Saturday at all. Spent the day having a headache and kicking and hating myself, instead. Then I ordered one of those new whole-wheat crust pizzas from Pappa John’s. It was not very good. Actually, it was kind of awful. I also ate a brownie. But at least the brownie was good. Then I stayed up until almost 4:00 a.m. watching two Russian women play for the tennis gold medal. Of course, I slept in on Sunday after that, and then couldn’t get to sleep last night. The only good things I did were going to Central Market for some very healthy groceries and cooking up a bunch of chicken breasts. Now I am exhausted, but determined to be good and treat myself well this week to make up for it. I know one weekend won’t wreck my previous hard work, but I’m still mad at myself, especially since I don’t feel good as a result of what I did and didn’t do.
I did watch a little Olympics besides that tennis match. I saw parts of the women’s marathon, the men’s 100 in track (wowza!) and lots of gymnastics last week. Watching Michael Phelps win his eighth gold was exciting. I was very impressed with the whole team on that relay. They were all incredible. And those new suits have changed the sport of swimming forever. I kind of feel like all the new world and olympic records should have asterisks beside them, because it doesn’t seem right to compare the pre-new-suit records to all of those set this year and onward. However, if I never see another beach volleyball match again in my life, that will be fine with me. It seems like every single time I turn the TV on, there is hours of beach volleyball.
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I have spent an inordinate amount of time watching either the live feeds or the videos of lots of stuff they aren't showing on broadcast online. I give them credit for making it all available. This has been the first time I got to see equestrian cross country eventing and archery and white water kayaking and fencing--the list goes on--that didn't involve "and here are the medal winners".
From: (Anonymous)
2008-08-20 04:34 pm (UTC)
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ITA The online stuff is the best! There has also been a lot of equestrian on Oxygen in the early evening. I'm at the gym then, so I've been taping it and watching when I get home. I think they've done a really good job with everything but primetime, which has been nothing but gymnastics, swimming and more beach volleyball than I can stand. Thank goodness the diving's in full swing now!
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