TUESDAY MORNING: Did swimming for Corporate Challenge on Sunday, came in dead last in all four events by over double the time as the next closest person. Did the bike ride yesterday, came in last. But I went up an uphill road by myself by imagining Eyes yelling at me not to give up and a lot of people walked it, so it was good. Rode at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway which was an incredibly cool experience.
The hike, swim, and bike finally caught up to me and I ran out of steam today at boot camp. Doing a couple more errands and then sleeping seven hours. Drinking lots of chocolate milk to recuperate. Going back stronger than ever tomorrow.
And in the spirit of openness, I'm not very task-oriented, but I'm about to change that starting today. Paying two bills, tomorrow doing service on the car, scheduling enough sleep time, starting on the book, and kicking it up a notch in other areas of my life other than exercise. More on that later, but I wanted to catch up a bit.
THURSDAY NIGHT: I wrote some but the computer shut off and it didn't get saved, so here it goes again. Wednesday was a good boot camp day, squats holding weights, crab and bear crawls up a hill and running down, run to the wall and back twice, sitting at the wall, harness pulls against one another. I can do bear crawls relatively fast for me now, and I can do crab crawls which I had trouble with before, definite progress. The run to the wall that was so challenging that first day is a piece of cake now (well, not a piece of cake, but doable). I love running on rocks and navigating rocky terrain and it's so different the way I couldn't run down concrete less than two months ago and now I can run down rocky terrain relatively fast for me.
Much better physically although I felt worse, I think I'm finally coming back. I have just way too much stuff scheduled, the next three weeks are 10K, triathlon (maybe), triathlon. In a month maybe I can rest some.
Today, arms day, we boxed against pads. 50 X with right, then left, repeat, then run around the park, then 50 X right uppercut, left uppercut, right uppercut, left uppercut, right/left, left/right, right/left, left/right, then punching while holding on to 5 and 8-lb dumbbells.
So a good couple of boot camp days, body holding up. Tomorrow just boot camp in the morning, sleeping, show at night (Las Vegas Tenors Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10K Saturday). No other exercise Saturday, still thinking what to do Sunday, probably swimming and biking.
Someone said in a gym class the other day that I looked like I was fit, and I hated that. I loved that feeling of going to a class I'd never taken before and people looking at the fat person and then doing a great all-out class because I was fitter than I looked. Now I look fit to some people (not to me, of course........ I still think I look fat). And I hate that. Makes me almost (almost) want to eat myself fat again so that I can lose it all over again. So not happy about looking fit, and not thinking I look fit to begin with.
I couldn't take it any longer and I got on the scale today, but I closed my eyes and didn't look at the weight. So I got on the scale but didn't weigh myself. Two weeks since this challenge started, 10 more days to go. That's over three weeks of no measuring or weighing. Sigh. It did take the edge off a little bit but now I want to do it over and over again just to hear the beep of the scale calculating the weight, even if I can't see what it is.
WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK (THE FUTURE!!): Rest of the week hazy, but I ended up just having tickets to Saturday and Sunday for the Tenors because Friday's show was added later and I didn't notice. Great shows. I will go into quite a bit of detail for Saturday:
Saturday was my first 10K. Ate eggs and protein bars, 16 oz of water before, bathroom. Then we were off. As soon as my left foot touched the ground on the first step, it hurt. And as soon as it did, I got a determination that -nothing- was going to stop me finishing that 10K. Then my side started to hurt and I noticed that I was off-balance because of my keys so I put them underneath my hat and that worked great. Lasted the 10K without going to the bathroom but for a 20K I will probably have to do a pit stop. Towards the end my back hurt a bit. The whole experience was very enjoyable (and I finished it without stopping). The view was great and we did a lot of desert running up and down and even terrain on rocks, and it was just like Fun Friday at boot camp, and lasted about the same. I did it in 1:10:5X. They say for a 10K take your 5K, double it, and add 10 minutes, and at 33:52 that would have been 1:17:44 after adding the 10 minutes, so I only added about 3 minutes to my double 5K time which I'm very happy with. Started cramping a bit at the end (stomach) but held up. It was a very enjoyable experience and I look forward to the 20K in June, another one in August, and a 40K (full marathon, ~24 miles, in December).
When I stopped, this lady was taking the timing tag off my show and I started to feel sick to my stomach and woozy and just bad, and it's true that what you hear over and over again or do over and over again sticks with you, and I kept telling myself in my head that I had to keep moving, keep moving, and she wouldn't let me, and I almost pulled away to start walking but held it together for 30 seconds while the chip came off then walked for 5 minutes and I felt fine.
I have noticed that I get tired fairly fast but I also recover fairly fast. That's why I think I do better with long distances. I'm good at pacing and cadence and endurance and worse at speed and agility. I'm going to be a full marathon kind of person and full triathlons once I build myself up for them. And it's not really tired, but I run out of "gunshot energy," (just made that term up) or the quick energy needed for a quick sprint, for instance. I'll find a way to better explain this later.
I'll finish off this week with that. Debbie out.
I can't remember what I did Sunday at all, other than see The Las Vegas Tenors again.
