What’s your biggest remaining challenge?
Looking back, I certainly learned a bunch about what works and what doesn’t with regard to my getting fit.
In no particular order…
Works: Outrageous distance-based goal with deadline (Lazy Man’s Triathlon, first 5K race, first 5K continuous run, marathon, open water swim, triathlon… what else to come?)
Doesn’t work: Exercising for X minutes Y days a week. [...]
Wed, December 31 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Strategy, Stress eating, Support, Useful tools » 4 Comments
Well, Saturday I ran 5K for the first time! No walking, no stopping. With hills, even!
I started fairly fast (for me) and made myself slow down just a bit and I was glad I did because I had the energy to run up a endless long mountain goat grade fairly steep incline (for me) [...]
Sun, December 28 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Training journal » 3 Comments
Some miscellaneous notes…
Jason, who stopped by the other day to offer some encouragement (thanks!), has a great blog about his 130 pound loss. He also started running along the way, is a believer in slow running, and has even done some ultramarathons (my current not-so-secret obsession). Jason and I started within a pound of each [...]
Wed, December 24 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Support » 2 Comments
Wow. Read Murakami’s book this week, a memoir of runner and writer, snatching a chapter here and there when I could. Excellent.
Not so much excellent because of how great everything was. Rather, excellent because it wasn’t always great. And he persisted. And was humble. And determined. And kept at it. Through marathons, triathlons, and even [...]
Mon, December 8 2008 » Motivation, Persistence » 3 Comments
Yesterday morning I was feeling low. I indulged in that for a while and then had enough. Enough, I tell ya!
So, I…
Cracked down and got some tricky work out of the way
Dealt with an unpleasant personal issue
Stopped taking breaks to go stare in the kitchen cabinets (chocolate fairies never did show up)
Decided to let go [...]
Thu, December 4 2008 » Persistence, Stress eating » 3 Comments
Hmm. OK. I think I’m a freak. (Hey, I hear you asking yourselves, “well, when did she finally figure that out?!”)
I’m relieved because it’s nearly the holidays. I don’t find the holidays stressful, food-wise. I have the same freaky family issues that everyone else seems to have, but holidays aren’t when I do my eating. [...]
Wed, November 26 2008 » Persistence, Strategy, Stress eating » No Comments
I’m finally getting over my respiratory thang! So, back to my jogging plan today.
But I’m nervous. Because my knees have finally just stopped killing me after my Great Wall climb almost a month ago.
I want to be able to run 5k by the end of the year. But now I’m worried my knees are going [...]
Tue, November 25 2008 » Persistence » No Comments
You know, I was just in the kitchen, washing dishes before heading to bed (can’t stand waking up to dried up dirty dishes) and I realized — I am a different person. I have made permanent healthy changes. I’m not perfect, but I do pretty well. And I will lose this weight, in time. And [...]
Sun, November 16 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Self image » 4 Comments
OK, in typical me fashion, I made it through the tough part (the travel) pretty well and now I just want to kick back. Ugh. I don’t so much want to eat, but I do want to sleep and I have no energy to exercise. I want a miracle to occur.
I know I’m still jet [...]
Tue, November 4 2008 » Motivation, Persistence » 3 Comments
I’m staying at Le Royal Meridian hotel in Shanghai. I exercised (at the gym on the 10th floor of the hotel — the building on the right with two antennae) and then walked all over Shanghai.
And, I managed to eat fairly well today. But it was tough. I am tired and I miss my family. [...]
Wed, October 29 2008 » Everything else, Persistence » 2 Comments
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