This morning I managed to up my distance again, if only very slightly. The last time I went this far during a normal 55 minute workout was way back in February right at the peak of my weight loss. It was only a hundredth of a mile further than yesterday, but I'll tell you what -- I fought for that hundredth of a mile. Beast Mode engaged, indeed.

Today not only did I equal my previous workout's record for distance in 55 minutes, but I also upped my push ups from 52 to 56. I am in monster mode! Although, honestly, I have a costume I need to wear for my cabaret in just under two months, and I really need to look my best because it won't do me any favors. So... Beast Mode engage!

As I was watching today's episode of Torchwood I was trying to remember whether I thought it was a Cloverfield ripoff when it first aired. Turns out that movie didn't come out until a year later, so I guess Cloverfield is actually a Torchwood ripoff? Go figure.

Funny thing, the whole time I was doing my workout today I felt way off from how I did yesterday. Even so, I ended up taking more steps and going slightly further than I did yesterday. I vary my speed up and down during the workout, so I'm never really sure where it's going to end up until very near the end. So yeah, a good workout today. Also a moderately decent episode of Torchwood.

Today was an excellent day on the treadmill, clocking a further distance in a 55 minute workout than I have done since July. There is no question that since I completed Phase One of this ridiculous project, I have backslid some. I took a lot if days off in August, and I am only just starting to get back into a groove. So it's nice to be making progress again.

After intending to take two days off during a work trip, I wound up skipping four days of workouts. I fully expected to have ballooned up to a grotesque weight, and was pleasantly surprised to have only swollen up to an offensive weight. So that's..... nice?

How depressing is it to pick a classic Bill Hicks quote for an episode that has a scene where the protagonists find a shelf filled with abandoned shoes, only to encounter a story two days later titled Random Shoes? Ah, well.

The good news: I had my best day on the treadmill today in ages, clocking more steps and a farther distance than I have in ages. The other good news: I hit 65 push ups today, which means odds are I should be back up to 100 per day by mid-October. The bad news: Well, just look at the trend line on my weight chart. I keep thinking that today will be the day it turns around, and thus far today is not the day. I am proud of what I have achieved in this ridiculous project, but it's no lie that I am terrified that I will fail hard and gain it all back. So that's pretty terrifying. So rather than dwell on that, I'm going to talk about Torchwood.

As I am sure all of you, my dear imaginary readers, recall, I was recently in a production of Xanadu. At one point in the show I quoted from the classic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan. You can imagine, then, just how amused I was when that exact quote came up in its entirety of today's episode of Torchwood...

As of today I have done more than seven thousand push ups in the course of this ridiculous project. So that's something.