ManicDDaily

Back in the City and my good old multitasking ways, i.e. writing this blog while on the elliptical machine.

There are some great benefits to writing at the gym:

1. Your expectations of both your physical and cognitive performance are automatically lowered the minute you pull out your pen–not only do you not have tea and a madeleine but you are actively pumping your legs. Also, who can be Usain Bolt while writing longhand?

2. No distractions – fellow gym rats tend not to talk to someone scribbling in a composition book.

3. Low cost entertainment – a notebook and pen are substantially cheaper than an iPod.

4. A really great idea (which has not yet come to me) is a perfect reason to cut short your work-out.

5. The need to exercise your upper body is a perfect reason to cut short your blog.

6. The sound of that energizer bunny guy on the Stairmaster (which, when trying to write, bores into your eardrums) makes you feel completely unmanic.

7. The sight of that other guy staring blankly into the air in between nautilus reps (you can’t help staring at him as you try to come up with something to say) makes you feel amazingly prolific.

8. Work those thighs.

9. And fingers.

10. Too late for the abs though; i.e. lost cause.

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