Thanks to the beginning of the semester and a flu/upper respiratory infection/bronchitis/pneumonia bug that's working it's way around work, I've managed to work out twice and run not at all in the last two weeks. To say I'm frustrated is an understatement of epic proportions. But it's not just in this area that I'm frustrated, so I could say that I'm pretty well balanced.
But I'm taking antibiotics and decongestants and I can actually breathe now, so this won't last. And my schedule will even out soon.
I sat down last week and made several mini-goals. Where I want to be health wise in a month, three months, 6 months and a year. There's still time to accomplish the one month goals so I really need to chill out and quit beating myself up.
But maybe that's the point. If I get myself on track...what will I beat myself up about then???
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Exercising in a Small Town
I live in a small town. It's a wonderful place to live and I have family and friends here. I have a wonderful job and church and I absolutely love it.
But it's a small town. Not like, Mayberry small. But small enough that we don't have a variety of places to do much of anything. For example, if you're going to shop in town, your options are the mall or Wal-Mart. If you're going to see a movie, we have one movie theater with 4 screens. If it didn't come out 5 minutes ago, you're going to have to drive to a nearby city.
And when it comes to exercising your options are limited too. We have a Y. We have a 24 hour place that is absolutely awful (I seriously almost spelled it offal). And we have the Fitness Center at our sister campus (I work at a community college for the deaf - our sister campus is a regular community college). But the Fitness Center has been closed for several months for renovations. I'm not a fan of the Y. I loathe and despise and generally hate the 24 hour place....if I'm going to pay $50 a month, could you at least have one working treadmill??? So I've been kind of cobbling together an exercise plan utilizing the little bit of equipment I have at home. And then the track at the high school. Which is kind-of hard to do when there's no light past 6:00 pm and the high for the day is 30 something. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's not easy to convince myself to get my booty out there and try to walk/run.
So this has been my problem. Until Monday. The Fitness Center has re-opened. And I'm in love. So Monday I went to check it out and exercise. I am now up to almost 2 minutes of jogging and I walked for 25 minutes. I feel like a rock star. Their new hours are great. The new equipment is nice. They've fixed the heating and air conditioning so it'll be warm in the winter and cool in the summer and not the other way around.
So, you hear that? That's the sound of my last excuses leaving the building.
So now if I don't work out...it's just me.
But it's a small town. Not like, Mayberry small. But small enough that we don't have a variety of places to do much of anything. For example, if you're going to shop in town, your options are the mall or Wal-Mart. If you're going to see a movie, we have one movie theater with 4 screens. If it didn't come out 5 minutes ago, you're going to have to drive to a nearby city.
And when it comes to exercising your options are limited too. We have a Y. We have a 24 hour place that is absolutely awful (I seriously almost spelled it offal). And we have the Fitness Center at our sister campus (I work at a community college for the deaf - our sister campus is a regular community college). But the Fitness Center has been closed for several months for renovations. I'm not a fan of the Y. I loathe and despise and generally hate the 24 hour place....if I'm going to pay $50 a month, could you at least have one working treadmill??? So I've been kind of cobbling together an exercise plan utilizing the little bit of equipment I have at home. And then the track at the high school. Which is kind-of hard to do when there's no light past 6:00 pm and the high for the day is 30 something. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's not easy to convince myself to get my booty out there and try to walk/run.
So this has been my problem. Until Monday. The Fitness Center has re-opened. And I'm in love. So Monday I went to check it out and exercise. I am now up to almost 2 minutes of jogging and I walked for 25 minutes. I feel like a rock star. Their new hours are great. The new equipment is nice. They've fixed the heating and air conditioning so it'll be warm in the winter and cool in the summer and not the other way around.
So, you hear that? That's the sound of my last excuses leaving the building.
So now if I don't work out...it's just me.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Seriously
I'm seriously going to do this. I WANT to run. I do. But I don't think my goal of running a full 5K by my birthday is realistic.
First of all, It's 14 weeks away and I just missed a full week of walking/running because of circumstances beyond my control. And I'm up to 97 seconds of jogging in 20 minutes of walking. I'm making progress. My first time was 54 seconds. But it's going to take me several months to get built up. So there is no way I'm going to be able to run a full 5K for my birthday in April.
So I've been wavering back and forth between going ahead and participating and just running what I can, because it is a Fun Run/Walk and it would still be a step in the right direction or not doing it at all and finding one later in the summer, like competing in a 5K for my 16th sobriety birthday in August. But not doing it at all is a cop out. One that I will not let myself take.
So I just realized what I need to do....Set the goal of competing in the Master the Mountain for my 40th birthday and running as much of it as I'm ready to and then running a full 5K to celebrate my 16th sober birthday.
I feel better already.
First of all, It's 14 weeks away and I just missed a full week of walking/running because of circumstances beyond my control. And I'm up to 97 seconds of jogging in 20 minutes of walking. I'm making progress. My first time was 54 seconds. But it's going to take me several months to get built up. So there is no way I'm going to be able to run a full 5K for my birthday in April.
So I've been wavering back and forth between going ahead and participating and just running what I can, because it is a Fun Run/Walk and it would still be a step in the right direction or not doing it at all and finding one later in the summer, like competing in a 5K for my 16th sobriety birthday in August. But not doing it at all is a cop out. One that I will not let myself take.
So I just realized what I need to do....Set the goal of competing in the Master the Mountain for my 40th birthday and running as much of it as I'm ready to and then running a full 5K to celebrate my 16th sober birthday.
I feel better already.
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