Went to the gym last night for the first time in months and months. I much prefer exercising outside, but since running is on hold for a bit I had to try the machines. Boring. Rowing machine and bike both seem doable until the hip is better. But boring. And the nike ipod doohickey doesn’t record anything except walking and running. My little purple nike avatar screensaver girl is going to fade away from lack of inputs before long!
8:45 pm and just leaving work - I had to stay for a board meeting. I am not in a very good mood, but I will get over it, I am sure. On my way home to walk the dog around the neighbourhood.
Disaster. About a mile into my run last night something happened in my left hip. I limped back to the car, and the internet diagnosis is bursitis. ow ow ow ow. So ibuprofen, no running until it heals, and really slow going on stairs. Damn. At least I can walk - slowly…
I am going to rest for a couple of days and then try out the machines at the gym. Maybe rowing or biking would be ok. I can also do upper body weight training. This is too new a habit, I can’t let it stop now or it might all slip away again.
I am very sad about this. I knew it was too good to last.
So I am amusing myself by planning my mini-vacation to Chicago in 2 weeks. This week is Thanksgiving, which means travel to the parents’ home, lots of home cooking and baking (aargh) and next weekend I am taking off for a four day road trip just because I can.
Considering where my head was in June, when EXLB dumped me in a particularly mean and childish way, I am very proud of myself right now. The last few months of that thing were very hard, and I take full 50% responsibility for that. Ok, well, done. As they say, it is called a breakup because it is broken.
Immediately I started exercising, and set a goal to be able to run for 5km without stopping. I can do that now! And to my surprise, it was fun getting here. I enjoy the running and it has become a good habit. I feel great, even though I am still a fat middle-age woman I feel svelte and strong. (Maybe svelte-er and strong-er). I am eating much much healthier and my tastes are changing….I had a cookie yesterday and didn’t like it…WHOA what is that about?
I finally did the motorcycle course, something I have been talking about for years and was too afraid of failure to try. Well, it was hard, but also so much fun. I felt like a kid playing as I learned all these new skills and could see myself actually doing it!
Overall this has been a great summer, and I hope I can carry this through the dark days of winter. The hiking trail right now is particularly beautiful as the leaves change colour, but the days are getting shorter and winter is coming. That’s ok, that will bring snowshoeing and maybe this year, downhill skiing! (Although Son #2 last night took his life in his hands by suggesting I think about lawn bowling ‘like the other old people’…just wait till he gets home for Thanksgiving…lol)
Thanks to everyone for your encouragement….I hope I can give back as much as I am getting from this place!
I ache. Legs, arms, bum - 7 hours on a itty bitty motorcycle going around in circles. I have never had so much fun IN MY LIFE!!!!
I am so glad I have improved my fitness or I might be road kill. The course started with an hour of pushing each other across a parking lot - no engines, just muscle power. So I pushed, someone pushed me, repeat, yada yada yada….then we were allowed to turn on the machines and it was just SO MUCH FUN (did I say that already?) Yay for no snow. Cold though, damn northern ontario climate. I came home at lunch for my ski pants…lol
It’s 7:30 and I am going to collapse in front of the tv. Thank goodness Son #1 thinks he has to pay me back for borrowing the car and is going to walk the dog later.
Did I mention how much fun this is???
I continue to struggle with the device that is the scale. My measurements are changing, my clothes fit, I can do things I couldn’t do 4 months ago, and still the numbers barely move at all. I have started viewing it like the lottery - completely governed by the goddess of chance.
Fine.
This weekend I am taking the beginners’ motorcycle training course. I have a shiny new helmet, and got my license and paperwork settled out today. I am very excited, this is something I have always wanted to do. Only downside - the weather station is predicting SNOW! I am not making this up. It is early but not unheard of to have snow this time of year. Of course it just makes for a miserable day or two, then warms back up again. But, STILL.
