Thurs and Friday

I guess I forgot to post Thursday! I had a pretty rough day. Sleep and I did not get a long, and so, my Thursday workout suffered a bit. I ended up only running for 5 minutes (.5 miles, though!), and weight lifting for about 35. It was a decent workout, though I wish now I had pushed harder. I ended up eating a lot of crap. May have helped my emotional state, but I know that wasn't good for my health!

Today, I woke up anticipating going to Columbus, but I realized with all the snow, sleet, etc. that was coming out of the sky, I was staying home. Due to weather hazards, all programs at my gym were canceled, though the gym itself was still open. This mean that yet again, I missed a zumba class. Instead, I went to the gym with a friend/neighbor. I ran 3 miles on the track and then biked with him for about half an hour. I wonder how many calories I'm really burning when I run. NM tells me it's lower than my HRM says. Apparently, depending on how far I'm running and how fast, my BPM can get up to the high 170s. Peaked today at 183! Yikes! I'm not really sure if that's a good or bad thing! I tried to get in some "deep belly breaths," as Kim calls them, but I often have trouble breathing through my nose in the stuffy air of the rec center.

I had a balanced day of food so far, but tonight should be a smorgasborg of crazy foods because Dee is having a game night party at her place. Should be fun! I thought about bringing some of my many board games along, but I figured it'd be more fun to just play whatever they've got. :-)

I'll also need to shovel out my car today--yuck! All that snow!

~Court

Tues/Thurs Woes

I have some trouble getting out of bed in the morning. I am often not very aware of the time that I have available to me, either. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, this is a problem. I start work at 9am on T/Th, so in order to gym before hand, I need to be there....well, early. I haven't figured out how early just yet. I got to the gym last week later than this week, but it still wasn't early enough.

I like to run and lift on T/Th. That's about 30 mins cardio and 30-60 mins lifting (depending on how much time I have left!). I've had to cut short both activities for the past two weeks--limiting my run to just one mile (10 mins, then a 2 min cool down slow walk), and my lifting has slipped to about 35 mins. This allowed me to do two sets of all my main exercises, but I'd like to start adding things in rather than speeding up and taking sets out!

I'm hoping to get to the gym by 7:15 on Thursday morning. That means I'll need to be awake probably by 6:15. Yuck! Well, we'll see what happens, and I'll let you know.

Later today is spinning, so I'll probably give you an update about that soon! Suffice it to say, I did get a decent workout at the gym yesterday, but it wasn't as wonderful as I would have liked it to be. I want that cardio to be at least 2 miles, and the weights to be a little better. However, I'm getting stronger already. The extra pounds I'm lifting are getting doable, and yesterday I was able to do 2 sets of 8 push-ups in a row. I think I'd be extra strong if I got up to 20 push ups in a row, don't you?

~Court