There’s a warm-up exercise we do at the gym where we throw a medicine ball to each other around the block. If you have the ball, you can’t move. The other person runs ahead and you throw it to them, then they have to stop and you run ahead. I thought I was going to have to go home and take a nap after I did that, but for some reason I was able to finish the workout of the day a lot stronger than I expected. I kind of doubt it was because I had a salad for lunch today. It cost $12 and for that price you’d figure it would be gold plated or at some chi-chi place in the Pearl, not at Red Robin in Hillsboro.

So there’s a big sign at the gym: Todd held Hostage – Day 1. I wonder if this no cheeseburger/salad idea is actually going to improve my workouts. It never seems to work when I have the awful taco salad at work. I was kind of convinced that following the “zone” diet was just superstition, but maybe it actually works.