It seems as if I need to change the name of this blog to “Not able to train enough to do a triathlon, and will instead continue to sit on the couch”. I’ve been bad, I’ve been horrible, and I’ve been making excuses. Seriously, the number of excuses is starting to get large.
I’ve also had a crisis of the waistline.
Decided to go out to dinner with my wife for a belated birthday celebration for me (it was mid February). I went to put on my dress pants, and realized that they didn’t quite fit anymore. <sigh>
No more excuses, I start again tonight.
I know that one of the big things everyone says is to make sure you get those workouts in, but sometimes there actually are enough extenuating circumstances that will keep you from it. For instance, the past two weeks have been rough on me for getting workouts in. First off, we’ve had all of these snowstorms, which just make getting around rough. Secondly, my daughter got sick, which means that I’ve been spending far more time keeping her up and going. Finally, my wife got sick, which meant that I had to care for her and the baby. Add all of these up, and I’m happy I made it to the gym as many times as I did, but I definitely know its not enough.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
— Christopher Morley
I should have realized that I was going to have issues getting any real workouts in this week. I think I’m going to give up on the dream for the week and chalk things up to “figuring out how I’m going to logistically tackle getting my daughter to and from daycare while finding time to work and then figuring out how to get workouts in”. This is OK with me, especially since I quit taking the metro for a good portion of the daughter-daycare trades. This means I’m walking a whole lot more, and while it isn’t active running, it is doing something for me. With that, let’s look at yesterday:
Wednesday: Got up, got Sofia ready to go, took the Metro to Cleveland Park (I was running late), then walked her to her daycare (0.7 miles). Walked back to Cleveland Park (0.7 miles), took metro to Woodley (1 stop, it was questionable), walked to Adams’ Morgan for work (0.7 miles) which meant I walked 2.1 miles in the morning. After a few hours of work, I decided to walk directly to the day care to pick up Sofia (1.7 miles), then I decided to walk all the way home (1.4 miles) for a total of 3.1 miles on the back side. This means I walked about 5.2 miles yesterday or 8.3 km. This explains why I felt tired by the end (there are a lot of hills) and why I had a voracious appetite when it came time for dinner.
Now that I’ve found this route, I’m gonna stick with it, so, without further adieu, my day so far:
Thursday: Got up, got Sofia ready to go, took the Metro to Cleveland Park (really, I’m chronically late in the morning) and walked her to daycare (0.7 miles). Then, I walked straight to work (1.7 miles) for a total of 2.4 miles this morning. I plan to walk to her daycare, pick her up and walk all the way home again, so that will add another 3.1 miles to the walk, which will put me at 5.5 miles.
If I can start tacking on some real workouts, I think I’ve got some good potential for awesome. If nothing else, I’ve got a solid, solid base of walking long distances if I bonk during the run.
I’ve got a rough week coming up between starting up a new contract for work, starting daycare for my daughter (and I’m the one with a flexible schedule) and trying to get workouts in. I have a strong feeling that as much as I’d like this week to be a strong workout week, it is going to be rather week. The first two days show how this plays out…
Monday: The morning was spent getting Sofia to and from daycare for the first trial period, which meant about 3 miles of walking up and down a hill. When I got him, I hit the Wii Fit for 15 minutes of yoga + strength. When my wife came home from work, I got to the gym and hit the elliptical for 40 minutes. I still haven’t gotten myself back into running again. I’ll admit that I’ve been rather scared because of hurting myself last time, even though I know that is silly. Perhaps Wednesday I’ll see if I can switch between elliptical and the treadmill a bit (I don’t want to up the volume too much, too quickly again).
Tuesday: Zip, nada, zilch. OK, that’s not true, but due to time constraints I ended up driving my daughter to daycare, took the metro down to where I had a meeting, walked about 0.6 miles there and back (1.2 overall) then back up to daycare (0.7 miles), then all the way back home (1.4 miles) for a total of 3.2 miles. After that, I didn’t get anything in the way of a workout. I meant to do a whole lot, but Sofia wasn’t having any of that.
Lessons learned? Grab whatever time you can to get your workouts in, because you’re never going to be sure when you’ll have time. I’m hoping to get in some Wii Fit time tomorrow, as well as a bit of gym time. Don’t know if that is gonna happen.
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DC can’t handle the snow (at least as far as being thwarted in workouts)
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The cause of all my not working out (she’s so worth it, and surpisingly enough, one of the reasons I started working out in the first place)
According to this article, there is a shortage of Wii Fit Plus systems out there for sale.
Apparently, there are a lot of people out buying Wii Fit Plus these days. I remember this feeling when I first started looking at them, because they were out of stock everywhere and if you wanted to buy 3rd party, it was expensive. I’m sure they’ll get more of them in stock soon, but you should check out the larger warehouse type sites (aka — Amazon.com, you can follow this link to check out their stock) as they tend to have larger stocks and they show up faster.
Related Links:
- More Wii Fit Plus News
- wii fit + swimming
