day two

yesterday, i finally decided to do something i had first considered about a year ago, the bikram yoga 30 day challenge. i have never before submit my physical and mental strength to this type of deliberate and consistent strain. i wonder if i will make it out in one piece. and i am most curious what my mind and body will resemble at the end of the thirty days.

the internet has been most uncooperative at work the past two days. they identified a virus within the location where i work and have yet to isolate the problem. hence, the entire office's internet has been severely restricted. five minutes of external site access shuts down all web functions for five to ten minutes. these periods of stalemate have made completing job tasks most frustrating, but have done wonders for my hydration levels. i am probably on my eighth 16 ounce cup of water.

i hope my hydration pays off and i don't cramp up today as i did yesterday. i never knew one could develop a muscle cramp just below the chest. but yesterday's bikram class showed me the light. so now i know, yes you can cramp there, and at your calves and at every one of your toes, and at the arch of your foot. worse yet, you can even cramp right at the hip, when you are squatting so low for so long you think any second that particular joint is just going to disassemble itself.