April 1, 2011

Cleveland – New York

Distance traveled today:  445

Distance traveled so far:  2760

Very happy to be heading off to New York!  It’s such a rare treat to be sent to New York on a project, since there are lots of contractors there who usually get those assignments.

I have had my tickets for The Book of Mormon for months.  It’s the new Broadway musical written by one of the Avenue Q guys and the two South Park guys.  So looking forward to that.  Obviously I hope to have some quality time with friends as well.  I need to watch my budget a bit and not just go dropping $125 for every damn show that I want to see in New York.

Broadway Shows I Saw When I Was in New York Last September

• Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
• Next to Normal
• Brief Encounter

New York will probably be an even more challenging place to stay on a good eating regimen than Cleveland has been.  In fact, as far as food goes, as I look at my itinerary for the remainder of the trip, it appears that eating low carb is going to get progressively more difficult.  (Picture me attempting to order low-carb in Russia.)  I’ll just have to do the best I can on that score. 

On the other hand, balancing out the food peril is the fact that the deeper I get into my trip, the more likely it is that I’ll be doing an increasing amount of walking.  The weather should be getting better and better, and the sun will be up later and later.  Eventually, when I’m in Russia in May, the sun will be up until almost midnight!  I imagine I’ll be spending less and less time huddling in my hotel room, like I’ve been doing a lot of in frigid Cleveland.

However, I’ve been trying to be good about exercise.  I’ve been using the gym pretty regularly.  I even swam laps on Monday night – and there’s a pool at my New York hotel as well.

The other night I pushed over 300 lbs on the leg press during my workout.  Not too bad for an fat old guy.

Here’s to hoping that exercise will help stave off the effects of pretzels, bon bons, blini and borscht!