The most important thing I did today was watch the extended three hour version of Dune. I thought it was awesome even if my family didn't, and shame on them anyway, as it was their idea. I was concerned about getting to bed on time after watching a three hour movie, and look, fail.
Two things: I felt like this was getting real dry, real quick, and remembered the best form of entertainment is self-depreciating. So there'll be more of that. Also that I wasn't sure it was obvious how much of a 'challenge' some of the goals are. Let's combine the two. It would be far too insanely long to list the challenges of each goal set so once a day for the next five days I'll try and explain why the goals do push me, rather than this is just me strolling through life, tra la la, yes I'm just this fantastic. Sadly - not the case. Being awesome takes hard work and dedication people! Honestly.
Why is Fitness challenging?
I hate running. So you can imagine my utter joy when watching Derby videos, I was struck by something that had me leap up and yell "All the best jammers are sprinters! Are you seeing this? (howls of emotional pain)". Going out, buying running shoes and repeatedly jumping onto a treadmill... not something I ever thought I'd see myself doing. In fact, even after that realisation all I did was bitch for three weeks. Then there's the gym. I've always done sports, so I have an underlying strength and competency when it comes to most things physical (ladies, wink) and the nice thing about sport is that it's a limited amount of thinking while you're pushing your body to achieve something, like moving the ball over there. But I have to make all those decisions myself in a gym. I'm a woman, so unfortunately 'Making Decisions' is not something that comes naturally, and on top of that I'm actually horrifically lazy when I'm not being overtly competitive. I know it doesn't show but if you've ever seen me on a couch or the floor I think it's obvious I know how to stop moving when I want to. Even in the gym I'll do things like push harder and faster through an exercise simply to finish it sooner, so I can go back to doing nothing, which is why I do distance interval training (a minute off my time? Damn, I must have been feeling lazy that day!) and why I prefer weight training to cardio (fewer reps? As long as I lift a higher weight? Oh hell yes, load me up)
So you know, I have to contend with mental barriers and all that jazz.
Fitness: Because of my previous social obligation to my familial units I had to be in Ellerslie by 6pm. So I decided leaving the gym at 5.30pm would facilitate that, deliberately ignoring the whole "down town to Ellerslie in rush hour traffic" may in fact be a bit longer than 30 minutes, as I figured 60 minutes at the gym was short enough when it needs to include changing/shower. Very little pain from my swiss cheese foot today, must have been from having bound my foot tighter than a Chinese princess. I was still edgy and avoided the treadmill so as not to aggravate it regardless. I'm beginning to miss using the slow intervals to hustle the treadmills (sidestepping while leaning against the hand bar - a Derby thing I find useful for working on wall-breaking technique and keeping my arms out of the way). And then in a fit of rage I signed up for Round the Bays. Even I'm still a bit unsure of the mental process that lead to that.
Aikido: No training today. Beginning to think last nights failures were predominantly from over thinking and poor hip / foot placement. "Good enough" will earn me a pass but certainly not something I would be happy with. Must focus harder. That might mean youtubing technique videos at work.
Derby: Skating tomorrow. Looking at the weather I could have gone skating at lunch time but with all the excitement of moving it would take half the lunch break to go get my gear, get kitted up and take it off afterwards. Also have lots of excitement to look forward to this Friday - Mt Wellington Skateland have resurfaced their floor over the festive break! In the words of my idol Rainbow Dash when faced with extreme excitement, ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!
Diet: We get biscuits from Wednesday through Friday and this morning there were timtams and chocolate fingers in the breakroom. Normally, a handful of each and a several cups of tea would be breakfast (mm, feel the nutrition) but instead I just had my weetbix and banana. Victory in will power there, seriously. Timtams. I used to fluff about in the breakroom until I was alone and fill a mug with them to take back to my desk. Lunch was excessively late, partly due to my levels of self angry and inability to get done what I needed to. Still managed a mammoth health sandwich (the ingredients of which are delicious fancy bread, fancy cheese, fancy deli meats, avocado, cucumber, twenty times the amount of hummus pita pit would have used, red onion and love - plus it's massive). Some people may argue the various health points of the sandwich but frankly when you're training up to 30 hours a week all your body cares about is fuel, nowecause I figure I only need caffeine in tea form. Fruit salad for dessert. Bonus. Have noted that I've been dehydrated since Sunday. I'll need to drink a couple of litres of water tomorrow.
Sleep: Late again tonight, but I need to explain 11pm is a target, and up to 12am is probably acceptable for when things like "moving" and "familial obligation" happen. Tomorrow is going to be fun though, 9pm finish at Massey and I need to get home, shower, cook, and hopefully find three minutes to put my stuff away and sort things out (as I just moved back home tonight). All before 11pm if I can manage it.
Damn, it's hot here. Like "no more blankets required" hot. I hope that doesn't mess with my sleep...
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