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Here we are at a new year
Jan. 7th, 2019 08:15 amWell, I survived 2019. After I left work on December 18th I had a really nice holiday. I spent about the first 5 days sleeping a lot which I think was my body doing a mental reset. Work has been stressful and I guess my body was like "STOP! SLEEP!". In early december I started going to Impact Training Gym here in Tucson. I was only hitting the Saturday High Intensity Interval Training to start but then over the holiday I was able to do the HIIT and the Strength classes and didn't feel like I was a lump on the couch all break. I even did the 12 days of Xmas Christams Eve workout which was do day 1 (100# plate push across the floor) and then do day 2 and then day etc. I made it all of the way through day 9 and day 10 I just couldn't after 1.5 hours of activity. Day 4 was the killer we had to push the prowler sled up and back with 270# of weight on it. It killed me. But I did it. I can tell I'm stronger and my body is looking way better. Met with my doc on my asthma being weird and she commented that I looked better, my legs looked awesome and to keep up what I'm doing even though she agreed I need to start getting my weight down. I gained 5 pounds over the holiday but it was not fat.
pic to prove my point from Saturday...its a weird angle so I think it lies a bit but I love this and you can seen how long my hair has gotten considering that is in a french braid since I was going to have armor on later that day.
After a killer workout I went home, changed into armor clothes, ate a huge omelet and then went to the fighter collegium which was good. I did some pickups, listened to the classes, commented on the classes and tested out my new chin strap which was weird but meh. After 15 years I needed to replace it after issues getting my helmet off at GWW. It feels very different but it was good. I got hit in the head a few times and didn't really care. We had laurel's circle which was nice and then home for showers and changing for 12th Night which was middle eastern themed. I was able to eat the very tasy feast and chatted with folks and watched court. Danced a bit and was home at a reasonable hour. It had started raining while at the event and we all realized that war practice the next day may be iffy.
At 8am after constant rain all night the war practice was cancelled. I was sad that I'm missing a war practice but it was cold and wet and the household peeps in town went to breakfast and then we had impromptu crafting at our house. It was nice. When the rain let up I was able to get the lights off of the house and put away (I did the cactus last week) and then settled in to laundry and knitting. I got my Craftvent shawl half done.
And I cast on the other half and got a bit into the first lace section. Its much easier this time than the last since I know how things go and that was good. I tried to go to bed on time but read till late and then slept fitfully. Ugh. Oh, well. I'm heading to the gym to run tonight before scriptorium. My modified schedule for me to get my butt in gear is:
Monday Run
Wednesday Strength Club after knitting time
Saturday HIIT
Working Friday Run
So this week I'll get that all in hopefully and not die. I've also started tracking macros for what I eat. I had tried this previously but my apps weren't set up for that. Now since I'm paying a fee I can track things down well. Its hard and I need to eat leaner cuts of meat but I think its manageable. Every little bit helps and I'm happier. Now I just need to balance that with work and try to be more positive...it will help.
pic to prove my point from Saturday...its a weird angle so I think it lies a bit but I love this and you can seen how long my hair has gotten considering that is in a french braid since I was going to have armor on later that day.
After a killer workout I went home, changed into armor clothes, ate a huge omelet and then went to the fighter collegium which was good. I did some pickups, listened to the classes, commented on the classes and tested out my new chin strap which was weird but meh. After 15 years I needed to replace it after issues getting my helmet off at GWW. It feels very different but it was good. I got hit in the head a few times and didn't really care. We had laurel's circle which was nice and then home for showers and changing for 12th Night which was middle eastern themed. I was able to eat the very tasy feast and chatted with folks and watched court. Danced a bit and was home at a reasonable hour. It had started raining while at the event and we all realized that war practice the next day may be iffy.
At 8am after constant rain all night the war practice was cancelled. I was sad that I'm missing a war practice but it was cold and wet and the household peeps in town went to breakfast and then we had impromptu crafting at our house. It was nice. When the rain let up I was able to get the lights off of the house and put away (I did the cactus last week) and then settled in to laundry and knitting. I got my Craftvent shawl half done.
And I cast on the other half and got a bit into the first lace section. Its much easier this time than the last since I know how things go and that was good. I tried to go to bed on time but read till late and then slept fitfully. Ugh. Oh, well. I'm heading to the gym to run tonight before scriptorium. My modified schedule for me to get my butt in gear is:
Monday Run
Wednesday Strength Club after knitting time
Saturday HIIT
Working Friday Run
So this week I'll get that all in hopefully and not die. I've also started tracking macros for what I eat. I had tried this previously but my apps weren't set up for that. Now since I'm paying a fee I can track things down well. Its hard and I need to eat leaner cuts of meat but I think its manageable. Every little bit helps and I'm happier. Now I just need to balance that with work and try to be more positive...it will help.
