Friday REST
Saturday ELLIPTICAL 15 mins
RUN 45 mins and 4.5 miles
SWIM 10 mins and 400 yards
BIKE 60 mins and ~16 miles
Sunday BIKE 80 mins and ~20 miles
Yeah, I did the swim indoors. I'm such a cold weather pansy!
I was still hurting Friday so I dedicated to rest. Left foot still hurts (still not really a pain but it's definitely uncomfortable) and the left ribs hurts (definitely a pain, but tolerable). My left hip is bruised from the fall but only hurts if I touch it. And the 'pebble-ish' lump in my right IT/knee area is hurting much less.
Geez I'm a mess....
OOH so Friday. I want to mention my visit with Dr S. My cholesterol numbers are great, I should focus on good nutrition and go ahead to eat what I want, as long as it doesn't make me sick. I mentioned that I'd had bloating, vomiting, other GI issues. He said that I'm "slight" so I will rapidly loose muscle if I don't get enough protein. If I don't get enough protein, I'll get weak and I'll fall and I won't heal from those injuries. Hmmm... They are going to do a lipoprotein(a) test to see if I have high Lp(a), which would be a hereditary issue not impacted by diet, exercise, and environment. If it's Lp(a), the statin I'm on won't be of help but the Retha would. So eagerly awaiting results. What else... My plant-based diet may or may not be the reason behind my improved numbers, but he seemed more concerned out nutritional deficiencies than anything.
Saturday. My goal was to get one hour in at the gym, with a swim and a run. "My" treadmill was busy, all three of that type overlooking the pool were, so I lingered on the nearby elliptical until one opened up. This was more a stair-climbing type of machine, I didn't enjoy it much. 15 mins there, then off to 45 min run at 10 m/m. No intervals, no hills, just foot pain. :( Enough to stop me, but not enough to stop me.
Then swim, I really didn't want to but that was my goal, and goals is goals. And ooooh this did a number on the rib cage. Hurt the rest of the day and weekend.
Later in the day I had nervous energy to burn and so did an hour on the Bird watching the 2nd DVD of Battle of the Five Armies.
Also this weekend --- sold the china cabinet and bought the new oak dresser for the living room.
Sunday -- OK now I'm certainly hurting, foot and rib. And we're iced over so no running outside. Just did 80 mins on the Bird half watching Game of Thrones season 6.
As a nutritional note, I'm encouraged by cholesterol numbers and ready to kinda try more foods to see what happens. I bought a dozen eggs (first since ... November?) and mixed the whites and a few yolks into an oatmeal flour mixture that tasted AWFUL. I threw it away. I also bought rice cakes (doing OK with those, but so unsatisfying), some fake butter spread (for the rice cakes, but it's almost too good I just eat to much), and rolled oats and again the rolled outs were a fail. I eat them and fill up instead of eating real foods. So by the end of the weekend, I threw out eggs, oatmeal, butter. Not a good start.
But I'm tired of forcing foods down to maintain weight. I'm tired of recipes and books. I took a few library books for veg*n bowls and not a single page inspired me. I don't want anything. But I'm eating, kinda munchy but also forced to some degree. I need a break from food. I wish there was a pill I could take. Tired of the thinking and bloating and pains and cramps and the vomiting and the symptoms.
NUMERICS 6:55 hours, doesn't include the bike commute time
SWIM 1500 yards
BIKE 56 miles (wow!)
RUN 11.5 miles, falling behind on the training plan due to foot pain
BIKE COMMUTE 19 miles
ELLIPTICAL 45 mins
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Forest Park loop WHOOP!!!!
RUN 7 miles in 1:09:36 for a 9:57m/m pace
Yup, I just undid my usual rounding up so that I could report a sub 10 time :)
And yup, I hurt. I didn't run this morning as planned due to cold, dark, rainy, and painy. All of yesterday's pains still there. But I wanted to run, kept thinking on it, planning it, so I packed run clothes in my bag and drove off to work. Temps were forecasted to peak at 55F then drop out to 11F overnight. 55 sounds so nice!
At work I don't have terribly much to do, so I keep thinking on the run. I could loop the park, I could run out as far as I felt good then come back, I could just run half a mile and see how it goes then be able to say that I ran. I for some reason needed to do this run.
Around noon I note that the temps never did get over 35F (I barely have enough clothes for this), the winds are expected to get cold and gusty by 1pm, so if I'm gonna go I gotta go now.
This after whining about how much my rib hurt to coworkers. It hurts, but not that bad. Right?
I start out taking the hilly side first to break up the headwind. At a few points it snowed. I took the hills easy (easier, I guess). My left foot injury hurts, I'm getting convinced that I probably have a stress fracture, it's not improving over the past week since it started. My back is tight but OK. My rib, well I ignored that and it wasn't hard to do really. My hip only hurt if I touched it, so that's easy. And that pea-sized pebble in my right IT-band didn't hurt at all.
If anything, my left foot was my primary complaint. 3 miles at Skinker, as per goal I took the "group run" route and climbed the hill. Breezed down as much as my foot allowed and hit my fastest mile at 9:17 in this range. This northern section was the windiest and coldest and I was looking forward to turning east for the tailwind. I thought I'd warm up here, but didn't really. The temps were noticeably dropping, the snow was enough that I had to remove my sunglasses, and my feet were wet from the flooded trails. I had a few opportunities to cut shorter -- up the hill to finish on Euclid, up the skating rink hill to skip the Clayton section, but I took it all and wanted it all. So much that I looped Smoker's Park until I rounded up to 7 miles. This is my long run goal for this week!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!
But not sitting here later I'm hurting (rib and foot) and I still gotta walk out to the truck in the cold (now 27F) into the headwind to get home to see if the dog managed to lickety-lick her foot into a bloody mess. At least I limited her to first floor and no furniture, so the mess if any would be minimized. Right?
Earlier mom and sis were asking how I'm doing after the fall. Dad even called last night. SO told me to take the day off. So either I'm too dramatic in reporting what's happening or nobody trusts me to make good decisions (I can't disagree with that assessment....), and as mom said today about my "the rib is not broken" comment --is this the Queen of Denial talking?
Yup, I just undid my usual rounding up so that I could report a sub 10 time :)
And yup, I hurt. I didn't run this morning as planned due to cold, dark, rainy, and painy. All of yesterday's pains still there. But I wanted to run, kept thinking on it, planning it, so I packed run clothes in my bag and drove off to work. Temps were forecasted to peak at 55F then drop out to 11F overnight. 55 sounds so nice!
At work I don't have terribly much to do, so I keep thinking on the run. I could loop the park, I could run out as far as I felt good then come back, I could just run half a mile and see how it goes then be able to say that I ran. I for some reason needed to do this run.
Around noon I note that the temps never did get over 35F (I barely have enough clothes for this), the winds are expected to get cold and gusty by 1pm, so if I'm gonna go I gotta go now.
This after whining about how much my rib hurt to coworkers. It hurts, but not that bad. Right?
I start out taking the hilly side first to break up the headwind. At a few points it snowed. I took the hills easy (easier, I guess). My left foot injury hurts, I'm getting convinced that I probably have a stress fracture, it's not improving over the past week since it started. My back is tight but OK. My rib, well I ignored that and it wasn't hard to do really. My hip only hurt if I touched it, so that's easy. And that pea-sized pebble in my right IT-band didn't hurt at all.
If anything, my left foot was my primary complaint. 3 miles at Skinker, as per goal I took the "group run" route and climbed the hill. Breezed down as much as my foot allowed and hit my fastest mile at 9:17 in this range. This northern section was the windiest and coldest and I was looking forward to turning east for the tailwind. I thought I'd warm up here, but didn't really. The temps were noticeably dropping, the snow was enough that I had to remove my sunglasses, and my feet were wet from the flooded trails. I had a few opportunities to cut shorter -- up the hill to finish on Euclid, up the skating rink hill to skip the Clayton section, but I took it all and wanted it all. So much that I looped Smoker's Park until I rounded up to 7 miles. This is my long run goal for this week!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!
But not sitting here later I'm hurting (rib and foot) and I still gotta walk out to the truck in the cold (now 27F) into the headwind to get home to see if the dog managed to lickety-lick her foot into a bloody mess. At least I limited her to first floor and no furniture, so the mess if any would be minimized. Right?
Earlier mom and sis were asking how I'm doing after the fall. Dad even called last night. SO told me to take the day off. So either I'm too dramatic in reporting what's happening or nobody trusts me to make good decisions (I can't disagree with that assessment....), and as mom said today about my "the rib is not broken" comment --is this the Queen of Denial talking?
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
I fall down, but I get up again
BIKE 75 mins and 20? miles, indoors
Indoors for rain, cold, dark and early morning golden-doneness :) Watched first DVD in Battle of The Five Armies. For the WIN.
Later walking the dog on our normal loop by Nebraska and Juniata we took a fall. We somehow tangled, I got hog-tied, I tried to avoid her, but fell on her anyway. She yelped and cried out, my first fear was that I broke her back or ribs or shoulder. That's right where I landed. But she bounced up and started licking my face. Me on the other hand -- smacked my upper left hip HARD, I think I landed on my elbow? and the hit reverberated through my back. But we seemed OK and I'm still more worried about her. And pissed that had just taken my phone out seconds before all this to select the next podcast. I'm sure that played some role in my reaction time.
We get home and while wiping the rain off her feet I find blood. She's missing a toenail on her right hind foot!! Blood everywhere on the carpet, before I steadied her in the living room. I needed a few moments to take stock, replan, get my head together. The carpet cleaned up super easy while I planned. Call vet, delay work, get ice on me. The vet can see us in 90 mins, so while I iced my hip I moved her to her bed with a towel cover, cleaned up the puddles on the kitchen floor, colored in a book to calm down, and texted mom and SO. Mom wanted me to contact a doctor -- for the blood thinners, and the fact that I had a mild headache. I did have the headache and some on/off nausea, but between the stress, worry, pain, more it was hard to pinpoint everything. I Dr Googled for symptoms to watch for. I had none of the worsening headache, abdominal pain, dizziness. So dog next.
The vet (new one Dr Goff) said this was a common and minor injury. Really?! She's bandaged up shortly, antibiotic'd, and we're out the door $151 dollars later. Ugh. And this common injury was also in the next dog in the waiting room! But this dog did NOT look good or happy. So my doubts about whether Shoogie really needed a vet visit were erased.
We get home, I sit w her a bit, then I have to go. No bike commute due to rain. And my injuries, LOL! At work I have lunch with TV, get my shit done, then leave on a half day. I was starting to hurt more. My hip was developing a nice bruise underneath a half-dollar sized area of abraded skin. The swelling was lumpy but focal and not spreading yet.
And later in the day, a left side rib started to ache. I didn't notice this before? Sharp focal and right at the sternum so my guess is cartilage. This combination of hip and head and rib and back all made for some uncomfy sleeping.
But who am I to complain? I didn't lose a toenail! I wonder if she gets a discount at the groomer's now...
Indoors for rain, cold, dark and early morning golden-doneness :) Watched first DVD in Battle of The Five Armies. For the WIN.
Later walking the dog on our normal loop by Nebraska and Juniata we took a fall. We somehow tangled, I got hog-tied, I tried to avoid her, but fell on her anyway. She yelped and cried out, my first fear was that I broke her back or ribs or shoulder. That's right where I landed. But she bounced up and started licking my face. Me on the other hand -- smacked my upper left hip HARD, I think I landed on my elbow? and the hit reverberated through my back. But we seemed OK and I'm still more worried about her. And pissed that had just taken my phone out seconds before all this to select the next podcast. I'm sure that played some role in my reaction time.
We get home and while wiping the rain off her feet I find blood. She's missing a toenail on her right hind foot!! Blood everywhere on the carpet, before I steadied her in the living room. I needed a few moments to take stock, replan, get my head together. The carpet cleaned up super easy while I planned. Call vet, delay work, get ice on me. The vet can see us in 90 mins, so while I iced my hip I moved her to her bed with a towel cover, cleaned up the puddles on the kitchen floor, colored in a book to calm down, and texted mom and SO. Mom wanted me to contact a doctor -- for the blood thinners, and the fact that I had a mild headache. I did have the headache and some on/off nausea, but between the stress, worry, pain, more it was hard to pinpoint everything. I Dr Googled for symptoms to watch for. I had none of the worsening headache, abdominal pain, dizziness. So dog next.
The vet (new one Dr Goff) said this was a common and minor injury. Really?! She's bandaged up shortly, antibiotic'd, and we're out the door $151 dollars later. Ugh. And this common injury was also in the next dog in the waiting room! But this dog did NOT look good or happy. So my doubts about whether Shoogie really needed a vet visit were erased.
We get home, I sit w her a bit, then I have to go. No bike commute due to rain. And my injuries, LOL! At work I have lunch with TV, get my shit done, then leave on a half day. I was starting to hurt more. My hip was developing a nice bruise underneath a half-dollar sized area of abraded skin. The swelling was lumpy but focal and not spreading yet.
And later in the day, a left side rib started to ache. I didn't notice this before? Sharp focal and right at the sternum so my guess is cartilage. This combination of hip and head and rib and back all made for some uncomfy sleeping.
But who am I to complain? I didn't lose a toenail! I wonder if she gets a discount at the groomer's now...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Made the best of it, ellitical!
ELLIPTICAL 30 mins and whatever distance
SWIM 30 mins and 1100 yards as 4x [200F/50K]
BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 miles
RUN ...?? Planning on it.
Alarm was set for 5:15 but the dog went off at 4:38 and I decided to stay up and benefit the extra time. But then I still didn't leave for the gym until 6am? Goldfish style, I just filled the time. Doing what? I dunno.
Once at the gym, I realized I didn't have my running shorts packed. WTF? I was already wearing top clothing, so I decided to make the best of it and do 20-30 mins elliptical instead. Maybe this is a sign, I shouldn't be running with my left foot feeling what it's feeling? Either way, Boo.
And I swam! Plan was 25 mins but I wrapped up the last 250 set at 28 mins and really couldn't log that uneven of a number. Haha, so two more laps. Feeling slow, but that's OK.
I started at the deep end today, just to be different haha, and in a brief rest at the wall I noted that the large painful bruising on my left IT-band area directly above the right knee had a pebble-like hard lump in it. This really hurts, has for 2-some odd weeks now. The bruising is fading slowly but the pain still there. Hurts to touch, sit on the bed (I sink into the bed and it hits the site), and a few other motions too. I don't see Dr L again until the 28th of Feb, 3 weeks away. Between my back (on the commute yesterday), my left foot, and this lump thing...I've got a list of ills. Ugh.
My first thought when the bruising started on the leg was "what the hell did I walk into?!". I really don't know how I won that bruise. But now this lump, pebble, whatever... now what do I do?
Stopped at Hill Schnucks to get rice cakes and raspberries, couldn't find either so I left. In a non-hungry but now frustrated "want" I went to my Gravious Schnucks and scored not only the rice cakes (raspberries no longer $1, Boo) but also a bunch of sale yogurt. Eating them more now.
My cholesterol panel came back last night. Total 117, HDL same at 77, TG same at 42, LDL up from 11 to 32. I see the lipids doctor on Friday, but I'm wondering if this means I should stay plant based from now on? See what he says.
SWIM 30 mins and 1100 yards as 4x [200F/50K]
BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 miles
RUN ...?? Planning on it.
Alarm was set for 5:15 but the dog went off at 4:38 and I decided to stay up and benefit the extra time. But then I still didn't leave for the gym until 6am? Goldfish style, I just filled the time. Doing what? I dunno.
Once at the gym, I realized I didn't have my running shorts packed. WTF? I was already wearing top clothing, so I decided to make the best of it and do 20-30 mins elliptical instead. Maybe this is a sign, I shouldn't be running with my left foot feeling what it's feeling? Either way, Boo.
And I swam! Plan was 25 mins but I wrapped up the last 250 set at 28 mins and really couldn't log that uneven of a number. Haha, so two more laps. Feeling slow, but that's OK.
I started at the deep end today, just to be different haha, and in a brief rest at the wall I noted that the large painful bruising on my left IT-band area directly above the right knee had a pebble-like hard lump in it. This really hurts, has for 2-some odd weeks now. The bruising is fading slowly but the pain still there. Hurts to touch, sit on the bed (I sink into the bed and it hits the site), and a few other motions too. I don't see Dr L again until the 28th of Feb, 3 weeks away. Between my back (on the commute yesterday), my left foot, and this lump thing...I've got a list of ills. Ugh.
My first thought when the bruising started on the leg was "what the hell did I walk into?!". I really don't know how I won that bruise. But now this lump, pebble, whatever... now what do I do?
Stopped at Hill Schnucks to get rice cakes and raspberries, couldn't find either so I left. In a non-hungry but now frustrated "want" I went to my Gravious Schnucks and scored not only the rice cakes (raspberries no longer $1, Boo) but also a bunch of sale yogurt. Eating them more now.
My cholesterol panel came back last night. Total 117, HDL same at 77, TG same at 42, LDL up from 11 to 32. I see the lipids doctor on Friday, but I'm wondering if this means I should stay plant based from now on? See what he says.
Monday, February 4, 2019
New moon and a bike commute!
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
I've done the math now a few times. Finger counting. It's been 5 months since I've done the full bike commute, not just a bike in from the parking lot. It's another warm day with super light drizzly rain. And a new moon hidden behind the clouds. The warm won't last much more, we drop down I think to a low of 24F tonight, but we bounce back up to the 40s or 50s.
Smiled the whole way in, even when my mid-right back started pinging in pain. Still hurts. WTF with everything hurting all the sudden -- hip, back, foot, chest?
I'm also thinking crazy. I just had Big Shark's page open to look at road bikes. Yeah, like I need that. BRR has a shoe buy coming up. I'm holding back from emailing TH and LC to see what they are biking so I can join asap. Whoa, there. Slow down!! :) Haha, I'm pulling out route maps trying to remember how I used to ride to Marine IL.
Oh and I have dreams of running commuting SOON. Whoooooahhhh.
Plans this week: Lots depending on foot.
Monday rest
Tuesday 4-5 easy swim 20-25 mins
Wednesday XT bike, forecasted warm with rain
Thursday group run? 4-6 miles, forecast 50s with maybe rain for the run
Friday swim 25 mins
Saturday run easy, 30s but sunny
Sunday 7 long run!, 35-45 maybe rain and snow showers
Might not be as much biking next week.
Oh, a NEW MOON In just 15 minutes. I'm having a bit of a nutritional-decision crisis. I tried rice cakes over the weekend with success, and tried oatmeal again too. How do I work these in so they don't replace the more nutritious stuff?
And I'm waiting on my lipid panel collected this morning. Will meat be back on the menu?!
I've done the math now a few times. Finger counting. It's been 5 months since I've done the full bike commute, not just a bike in from the parking lot. It's another warm day with super light drizzly rain. And a new moon hidden behind the clouds. The warm won't last much more, we drop down I think to a low of 24F tonight, but we bounce back up to the 40s or 50s.
Smiled the whole way in, even when my mid-right back started pinging in pain. Still hurts. WTF with everything hurting all the sudden -- hip, back, foot, chest?
I'm also thinking crazy. I just had Big Shark's page open to look at road bikes. Yeah, like I need that. BRR has a shoe buy coming up. I'm holding back from emailing TH and LC to see what they are biking so I can join asap. Whoa, there. Slow down!! :) Haha, I'm pulling out route maps trying to remember how I used to ride to Marine IL.
Oh and I have dreams of running commuting SOON. Whoooooahhhh.
Plans this week: Lots depending on foot.
Monday rest
Tuesday 4-5 easy swim 20-25 mins
Wednesday XT bike, forecasted warm with rain
Thursday group run? 4-6 miles, forecast 50s with maybe rain for the run
Friday swim 25 mins
Saturday run easy, 30s but sunny
Sunday 7 long run!, 35-45 maybe rain and snow showers
Might not be as much biking next week.
Oh, a NEW MOON In just 15 minutes. I'm having a bit of a nutritional-decision crisis. I tried rice cakes over the weekend with success, and tried oatmeal again too. How do I work these in so they don't replace the more nutritious stuff?
And I'm waiting on my lipid panel collected this morning. Will meat be back on the menu?!
Sunday, February 3, 2019
A real weekend of training, thank you warm weather
Saturday (OK not so "real") BIKE 90 mins on bird
Sunday RUN 6 miles in 1:03 on MCT
BIKE 18.3 miles in 1:12 on MCT
From polar freeze to what feels like spring, this weekend was in the 60s!
My left foot still hurts, it's not really a pain, but it's a something. I skipped the short Saturday run to bike instead. And since it was still cool out Saturday morning, I just did a good hour indoors in the morning, and since I had more energy go burn I did another 30 mins later in the afternoon.
Sunday, yeah, here's the real meat of the weekend :) Even though my foot was feeling a "something" I decided to try running and see how it felt with the Cascadias on the flat MCT surface. I noticed Friday that walking felt better in them, less roll maybe? Anyway, it felt fine. Yeah, I felt it, but again it's not really a pain per se. It's just an uncomfortable feeling, that could very well be or become an injury. I did 3 out and 3 back, all easy.
Then the cool down, on Puppy again out n back. I was parked near the Culver's in C-ville so I rode to whatever that little town is where I used to park north of the race track. It is ... looking... Madison. For some reason I thought it started with and R or a P in the name. Anyhoo, I put on a few jump intervals of only a few seconds and limited myself. All felt good, although my hands need to acclimate to riding again, I had the cool vibrations in my forearms afterwards, that's fun for an hour but not more than that.
I didn't get to wear my new gear, likely my butt would have been happier like SO said, but I didn't feel like changing between run and bike. I did get to wear my new jacket. Damn it's so nice!
How's the heart, I'll bet your wondering. Well I still feel a "something" there too, but I can't describe it. It's like a, idunno, an ache. Sometimes sharper sometimes duller but there. Not always there, and not inducible either. In my head? I'm taking the amlodipine, not sure if I notice a difference with or without it.
As for the foot, skip tomorrows run and do elliptical, give it a chance?
Speaking of running, I randomed across a Monarch Ultra (not at all sure how I found it), a relay race running from Canada to Mexico, some 4200-ish kms. Runners do I think 50K segments. $200?!?!
NUMERICS 7:13! Real numerics for the first time!
SWIM 1700 yards
BIKE 55.3 miles
RUN 16.7 (was supposed to be closer to 20, oh well).
Sunday RUN 6 miles in 1:03 on MCT
BIKE 18.3 miles in 1:12 on MCT
From polar freeze to what feels like spring, this weekend was in the 60s!
My left foot still hurts, it's not really a pain, but it's a something. I skipped the short Saturday run to bike instead. And since it was still cool out Saturday morning, I just did a good hour indoors in the morning, and since I had more energy go burn I did another 30 mins later in the afternoon.
Sunday, yeah, here's the real meat of the weekend :) Even though my foot was feeling a "something" I decided to try running and see how it felt with the Cascadias on the flat MCT surface. I noticed Friday that walking felt better in them, less roll maybe? Anyway, it felt fine. Yeah, I felt it, but again it's not really a pain per se. It's just an uncomfortable feeling, that could very well be or become an injury. I did 3 out and 3 back, all easy.
Then the cool down, on Puppy again out n back. I was parked near the Culver's in C-ville so I rode to whatever that little town is where I used to park north of the race track. It is ... looking... Madison. For some reason I thought it started with and R or a P in the name. Anyhoo, I put on a few jump intervals of only a few seconds and limited myself. All felt good, although my hands need to acclimate to riding again, I had the cool vibrations in my forearms afterwards, that's fun for an hour but not more than that.
I didn't get to wear my new gear, likely my butt would have been happier like SO said, but I didn't feel like changing between run and bike. I did get to wear my new jacket. Damn it's so nice!
How's the heart, I'll bet your wondering. Well I still feel a "something" there too, but I can't describe it. It's like a, idunno, an ache. Sometimes sharper sometimes duller but there. Not always there, and not inducible either. In my head? I'm taking the amlodipine, not sure if I notice a difference with or without it.
As for the foot, skip tomorrows run and do elliptical, give it a chance?
Speaking of running, I randomed across a Monarch Ultra (not at all sure how I found it), a relay race running from Canada to Mexico, some 4200-ish kms. Runners do I think 50K segments. $200?!?!
NUMERICS 7:13! Real numerics for the first time!
SWIM 1700 yards
BIKE 55.3 miles
RUN 16.7 (was supposed to be closer to 20, oh well).
Friday, February 1, 2019
Blue skies and red shirts, and 1500 160 150 days
SWIM 20 mins and 800 yards. First time for a 500 free! Then I pulled the rest.
I thought the 500 free was a benchmark, so I just checked my list. I have a "500 non-stop" and a "20' mostly free". It's kinda both, but I'm going to mark the 500 non-stop as done. I really did keep it rolling. Didn't feel great, but I did it.
And I'm happy to say I did it, cuz for a few mins there at home I had silly thoughts of "you need a day off". Hahaha, you fail Blerch. But really, it's a 12 min drive there, time to shower and prep, 20 mins swim, another shower and another 12 mins. Over an hour (I take longer than needed HOT showers). My mind tries to skip these things as "too much time" or "do it on your way to work".
When I arrived at the pool, I caught sight of the moon. I sliver sliding towards New on Monday.
But I have new goals for February, and I wanted to stick the landing on these on the first day. Building on what I started in January, I have 8 written daily goals and 8 'bonus' goals. Today included swim, juice only pre-swim, potato treat if I swim, and a real M1 with my pre-made bowl. The bonuses were leave phone upstairs (it slows me down in morning) and no news in morning. I NAILED all but the juice goal. I ended up eating some carrot and orange instead, then nibbing on M1. Awesome!!
Later today goals are take out recycling and garbage before M3, eat pre-packed M3, take the doggie for a walk before M3, and B upstairs for M3. Again, this is more a streamlining of my evening so it's not slowed and lack luster. Would be nice to get stuff done! Like a stained glass project?
Other things. The left foot still "feels" and I'm wearing the Cascadias today and whether it's the foot or the shoes, I still feel it but less. Walking barefoot this morning not great. And my hip, every now and then in the last day or two will POW hurt in a sharp short lived pain? huh?
My theme this month is SO's "Sky Blue" comment from December. I had to look it up. I was saying that travel was "hard for me" (he wanted to buy my tix for a trip to Colorado!) and his reply was "Um... sky blue". Zing. It means a positive frame of mind. Zah-zing, indeed. So my bullet journal is sky blue theme, I'm looking for a sky blue gemstone pendant for my necklace to go along with my garnet.
And speaking of red, today is Wear Red day -- to increase awareness of heart health in women. I thought a lot about what to do about this. It seemed selfish to ask others to wear red, but seemed just as silly to ignore it. So a few days ago I texted Mom, sis, TB, TH, JG, EW and said pretty much "don't be me, learn the signs". Then this morning EW opened up with a great picture of her in a red suit, then JG in a scarf, then Mom's dog in a bandanna, and later TB and CM joined in!! Every picture was like a hug. Love you guys :)
I saw a few other instances of Wear Red in the hospital, one floor in Maternity was having a group photo. Some computers in BJC had it in the screensaver rotation. I'm 150 days out from the initial hospitalization!
Also 160 days of no M (HUGE goal for me, it's not a PR, but def a life change). And 1500 days out from the xmas 2014 when I put my foot down to make changes against M. It's been up/down since then over the years, but I swore 160 days ago that's it's over with that.
All those goal numbers, all in one day!! Feeling good today. Keep that ball rolling.
I thought the 500 free was a benchmark, so I just checked my list. I have a "500 non-stop" and a "20' mostly free". It's kinda both, but I'm going to mark the 500 non-stop as done. I really did keep it rolling. Didn't feel great, but I did it.
And I'm happy to say I did it, cuz for a few mins there at home I had silly thoughts of "you need a day off". Hahaha, you fail Blerch. But really, it's a 12 min drive there, time to shower and prep, 20 mins swim, another shower and another 12 mins. Over an hour (I take longer than needed HOT showers). My mind tries to skip these things as "too much time" or "do it on your way to work".
When I arrived at the pool, I caught sight of the moon. I sliver sliding towards New on Monday.
But I have new goals for February, and I wanted to stick the landing on these on the first day. Building on what I started in January, I have 8 written daily goals and 8 'bonus' goals. Today included swim, juice only pre-swim, potato treat if I swim, and a real M1 with my pre-made bowl. The bonuses were leave phone upstairs (it slows me down in morning) and no news in morning. I NAILED all but the juice goal. I ended up eating some carrot and orange instead, then nibbing on M1. Awesome!!
Later today goals are take out recycling and garbage before M3, eat pre-packed M3, take the doggie for a walk before M3, and B upstairs for M3. Again, this is more a streamlining of my evening so it's not slowed and lack luster. Would be nice to get stuff done! Like a stained glass project?
Other things. The left foot still "feels" and I'm wearing the Cascadias today and whether it's the foot or the shoes, I still feel it but less. Walking barefoot this morning not great. And my hip, every now and then in the last day or two will POW hurt in a sharp short lived pain? huh?
My theme this month is SO's "Sky Blue" comment from December. I had to look it up. I was saying that travel was "hard for me" (he wanted to buy my tix for a trip to Colorado!) and his reply was "Um... sky blue". Zing. It means a positive frame of mind. Zah-zing, indeed. So my bullet journal is sky blue theme, I'm looking for a sky blue gemstone pendant for my necklace to go along with my garnet.
And speaking of red, today is Wear Red day -- to increase awareness of heart health in women. I thought a lot about what to do about this. It seemed selfish to ask others to wear red, but seemed just as silly to ignore it. So a few days ago I texted Mom, sis, TB, TH, JG, EW and said pretty much "don't be me, learn the signs". Then this morning EW opened up with a great picture of her in a red suit, then JG in a scarf, then Mom's dog in a bandanna, and later TB and CM joined in!! Every picture was like a hug. Love you guys :)
I saw a few other instances of Wear Red in the hospital, one floor in Maternity was having a group photo. Some computers in BJC had it in the screensaver rotation. I'm 150 days out from the initial hospitalization!
Also 160 days of no M (HUGE goal for me, it's not a PR, but def a life change). And 1500 days out from the xmas 2014 when I put my foot down to make changes against M. It's been up/down since then over the years, but I swore 160 days ago that's it's over with that.
All those goal numbers, all in one day!! Feeling good today. Keep that ball rolling.
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