Kickin' it Old School

The first Quarter of 2009 is behind us and rather than figure out how much money I lost in the last Quarter I thought I'd be better off seeing what I gained in the last 3 months. At the beginning of the year I set out my Life Plan and now is a good time to check in and see how that's coming, or not.

My desire to grow a mediation practice has taken off, but my wish to develop a daily yoga practice has not. My desire to control vampires in my life: ie time, emotional, and money suckers has gone well, not very well, and off and on respectively.

My determination to live nothing less than an Extraordinary Life is going very well I have been very happy of late with my family and home life, I'm not out doing all the things I wanted, yet. But I'm truly enjoying what I am doing: long bike ride as a family one Saturday, sledding the next (got to love the Colorado weather here).

The expansion of my reading from quantity to quality has improved and I have read my banned book (Catcher in the Rye), I just received my Classic book, Walden, in the mail today as well as I have Jane Eyre downloaded on audio and waiting for me, all that is left is a Pulitzer Prize winner. The quantity doesn't seem to be hurting in the progress as I'm already at 18 so far this year.

My inner athlete is just now starting to poke her head back out which is the point of the title of this blog. I got sick for two or three weeks, it was bitter windy cold out and I just wasn't motivated to workout that hard and now I'm really starting to realize the price I'm paying for my slacking off.

A few more pounds than I'd like to admit have crept back on. My steadily increasing mileage for running has decreased. My muscles don't look as strong as like. And my diet - sheez, my diet. My diet is a mess. The saying that you can't out exercise a bad diet is so true, but even more true when you aren't even training as hard as you're capable. So it's occurred to me that I need to go back to basics for a bit. Confess my sins and get my self back on track. And it starts now before I slide anymore. (Actually it started on Monday, but I just now am blogging about it).

Monday 3/31 -

-I did the treadmill at the gym - I walked for .2, I ran for a mile, I walked to .5 and then ran a mile.
-Sure I ate some junk food, just don't remember what.

Tuesday 4/1 -

-No April Fools Day here - I did not workout. I had my first ever child/husband free day and I chose not to go to the gym. I did go get a massage and enjoyed myself.
-Ate Sunchips w/ lunch, Ate Ice Cream in afternoon, Ate Ice Cream after dinner.

Wednesday 4/2 -

-Weight 136
-My friend Suz invited me to join some other friends for a duathlon at the gym, for which I have to admit that I was very nervous of my ability to complete giving my serious lack of training, but I'm proud to admit that I did do a 2 mile run on the track, 12 mile stationary bike ride, followed by another 1 mile on the track. Still amazed I was able to complete this!
-Ate Ice Cream after Dinner

Thursday 4/3 -

-Weight 138
-Core Conditioning class. Didn't stay for spin or any extra cardio - long day and I was dragging before I ever got to the gym.
-Ate Ice Cream after dinner and went to bed early.

Friday 4/4 -

-Weight 137.5
-45 weights, Bi, Chest, Tri, Back. 1 hour yoga.
-Eaten a number of mini chocolate chip cookies. Went to make a protein shake and yogurt was moldy.

So here it is the good the bad and the ugly. The buck stops here, if I'm going to be in any shape at all do the races that I want starting with one on May 9th!

That gives me one month to be able to run a 5k, followed by a 30k (18.6 mile) bike, followed by another 5k and I'm not even sure at this point that I can do one 5k, let alone two. The bike never bothers me, but that second 5k, I don't think I have nearly the reserves to dig deep enough for that one yet. But I'm not sitting on my butt anymore. I got to get moving and start training and eating like an athlete!