Heh, work still bites, but I'm still a little high with delight about seeing Kami unexpectedly last night. Plus I took some hard steps I've been putting off at work that should actually make things easier. Letting things go has never been a strong point... delegation? I'm not familiar with that word. (But outsourcing? yes...) And then, Mount Wellington Skateland new floor celebrational derby skate times! Second largest group of Derby folk I've seen at a public skate session.
Challenges update:
Surely Derby isn't a challenge? Seems I have brain worms when it comes to skating...?
Yes, I'm running a Derby Fever of 40 degrees so I'm all over skating whenever I get the chance, especially excited that going forward I will be able to skate for longer periods of time without issue as my feet were the first things to get me off the rink. My struggle with at Derby is that what I want to do and what I'm capable of are still wildly disparate. I've only been skating since July but I've set some high standards and feel the need to push myself to improve - it's so easy and tempting once out on the rink to just do what I'm good at and gloss over the harder techniques, or even at public skates to take the time to socialise more than practice. It weirdly cycles between pushing myself far too hard and other times standing back and letting it all just happen around me. There are other challenges with Derby as well, but more the social aspects which I needn't cover here. The fact I have no social skills isn't something I've listed to improve. I've made my peace with that. Also, thankfully, very few seem to have noticed.
Fitness: Core work, more core work, some leg presses, core work. I have become driven to be able to do one minute planks with ease, and two minute planks for a challenge. Might as well drive myself into the grounds on the days before I schedule a rest... which is great because I was standing in the shower for about 20 minutes before I realised... I was just standing there. My body was pleasantly shattered.
Aikido: No training today. Feeling better about it. Planning some jo work for the weekend.
Derby: Mount Wellington Skateland new floor - that's what I like. A little bit of hockey stops and a lot of guidance, bit of socialising and learning interesting new things that will be useful. Tonight was really about just having fun and a bit of a laugh, so aside from the occasional single foot leap and throwing myself into a bit of backwards jumping (it's all about the psychological intimidation!) it was mainly just trying to stay upright after destroying my legs at the gym. Really, I had a fantastic time. Just need to work on my limbo skills...
Diet: Jenny at work comes by my desk a lot. Before I started this blog she rightly pointed out my desk is covered in junk-food, candy, biscuits and tea mugs (I used them to build porcelain ziggurats) and was irritated I am my size whilst consuming plainly just junk all day, and consistently all day. She saw me in the break-room today making a sandwich, snacking on blueberries and asked if I had gone all healthy, to which I explained what I was doing. She leaned over my sandwich... "That doesn't just look healthy.... that looks tasty." Hells yes, my belief about diets is you should want to eat the food you're meant to //cough// which is why this isn't TBT any longer. Healthy food can be delicious and appetising, it just takes a bit more effort and time than I was putting in. Today was a complete disaster other than lunch and dinner though, toast with peanut butter thick enough to drown babies, some cake to celebrate a new meeting area we built at work (which I didn't finish) and three chocolate biscuits. Then healthy lunch sandwich and repeat of last nights dinner. Thank jebus I don't get meal fatigue (so I can eat the same thing all the time and be fine with it)
Sleep: I think I'm going to have to find a fan - woke up this morning and just did not want to get up, and not the normal, "I've had enough sleep and I'm being a bitch," but rather, "edfsfjkg.... adskl." kinda of not wanting to get up. Spending 20 minutes at the train station waiting for delayed trains was like delicious salt in the wounds. Anyway, I'll be asleep by midnight tonight - it's Friday and as much as I have plans for Saturday I can just let myself wake up when I wake up. Finding maintaining a sleep cycle over the weekend to be annoyingly useful.
Wow. One thing I've noticed? It's just gone day nine. And my body is 150% on board with this TB... ah, self improvement kick. Those chocolate biscuits, cake and icing I ate over the last little while? Either not enjoyable or made me feel sick. If I skimp on the sleep my body bites back gently, and will kick my arse something terrible when I over sleep. I know I'm training a lot as well but my body just keeps on giving, even when I know my muscles are fatigued (still figuring out "rest" time for muscle groups). I'm sure if I packed it all in I could adjust back to how things used to be, but right now, driving towards my goals is what makes me feel best. Today, I felt strong. Really strong. And not just physically.
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