Oh today was fantastic. I was selfish enough to go to the gym today (thank you company for paying for my gym membership… stress be GONE!!!) at lunch time. I bicycled for 30 minutes… it said I went 12 miles. That was so cool. Maintained my heart rate at between 142 and 144 bpm. Sweaty… man I was sweaty… and after I showed and went outside I froze (and it really wasn’t that cold!!!)
I fee so much better!
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I watched the National Body challenge tonight and it was kind of sobering. I guess I don’t really think that other people are afraid of looking stupid… figure I look stupid a lot. I figure that every time I go to the gym, every time I run, every time I try to look like anything but a fat chick that I look stupid. I know people who come off acting like they never feel stupid no matter what they wear, no matter how they look. I always envy people because I figure there are way more of ‘those’ never feeling like they look stupid people than people like me. Maybe there are more people like me than I think there are.
There is more to life than just winning…
That is so very true, but it also depends on your definition of winning. There is more to life than winning official competitions. But winning is getting up every morning and running and not quitting on myself. Winning is getting on the scale and having lost a whole pound. Winning is getting to the gym every day and pushing to cross train, too.
The teams have 100 pounds each to loose in 6 months. Do I really think that I could loose 50 pounds in only three? Not hardly…
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It was a rabbit kind of morning again!!! When I left the driveway this morning, it was really foggy… the pretty, heavy kind of fog that makes all the sound feel weird. The street lights were all misty and looked like they were a million miles away. This means it was a humid morning (duh). It might not have been the best morning to go from week 8 to week 9 and right now my body isn’t thrilled with me.
I did dumb things this morning. I added the extra time for week 9, and I tried to speed up my workout at the same time. In short order (okay, maybe it took me longer than usual, but I’m not always the most patient person in the world) I figured out that today wasn’t the day to put in the extra faster runs (street light to street light).
I almost caved in and gave up early (15 whole minutes left on the podcast) but just as I topped the next to the last hill, a wind blew in and it felt so good… it gave me my second wind and I pushed through. Now (60 sun gods and 10 pushups later and a good stretch after everything) I’m sitting here, still a bit sweaty, drinking my water and feeling a bit proud of myself.
We were at Walmart yesterday picking up way too grown up son’s birthday cake and I went to the pharmacy to check my blood pressure and pulse rate. 118/80 (not bad) but my pulse rate was 92 (didn’t like that one)… I need to figure out what kind of workout I need to do to bring that down.
Now… a shower and Oatmeal and then back to work…
Have a marvelous day!
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I was planning on actually going out and pushing this morning, despite the distance day of yesterday… but when I got up, the ball of my foot hurt so bad from wearing the wrong shoes for my distance day that I’m lucky I can walk across the room semi-correctly, let alone going out and working out…
So, New Year’s Day sees me having a lay down day cleaning up the computer, straightening up the living room and cooking dinner.
January 1st sees me having lost 20 pounds.. with ‘only’ 50 more to go to make me happy.
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It was frosty in central Texas yesterday and I got to go for my ‘run’ in the chill morning. It was a fantastic run. Hubby said at least I wouldn’t come back sweaty but I did. I ‘ran’ the first set that didn’t have a cooldown slow down in the middle. 28 minutes of continued higher speed music. It felt fantasic. I’m starting to believe that I’m really weird.
Why do I do this at 5 am? I got to see some of the most amazing meteor showers the last few mornings. I get to see the world start to come alive. It makes the rest of my day feel fabulous.
The rest of the week (the daylight part of the week and this morning) hasn’t been so fabulous. Last night was “deployment” night and I got the dubious honor of working the deploy. 4.5 long hours on a bridge conference call mostly listening to dead air periodically interspursed with small chunks of time with lots of discussions on issues that arose from the deploy. DUring the day this week, I have a consultant in helping me with some of my databases and meetings that corespond directly with lunch. So I haven’t been to the gym at all this week and I won’t likely be. Makes me feel less than marvelous and like a slacker.
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