The first week of October was a bit of a stressful one. It started with me having to take my son to his yearly emergency room trip (I swear, at least once a year we end up there!). After that, I had a number of challenges at work, had to pay over $1,000 in repairs to my car, and Steve Jobs died. My son is a huge Jobs and Apple fan so he took it pretty hard. However, I did get my workouts in!!! Consistently working out probably helped me keep my sanity. They were not the scheduled workouts that I had planned, but I still made it happen, and I am proud of my perseverance. So this is what I accomplished:
Wednesday: Walked almost 4 miles (to and from work)...part of the way back was with six bags of groceries...uphill!
Thursday: 30 min. morning walk/run around the neighborhood (This was a test to see if I could workout before work...I can!!)
Saturday: Black Girls Run DC run: 3 mile run, then 2.2 miles walk/run (4 min. run/1 min walk). I hurt my inner thigh/hip flexor running up the hill around the U.S. Capitol.
Monday: (Because of my injury on Saturday and since I had Columbus Day off, I did my "Sunday" workout on Monday): 1 hour neighborhood run/walk. Rough estimate is that I ran about 3 miles and walked about 2. Nice and easy and fun!
So, I got four workouts in...maybe not the best workouts, but I got up and moved on four separate occasions.
This week I plan on getting in a Spin class, my Saturday run, a treadmill and upper body/abs session, and a neighborhood run and upper body/abs session. I have also decided to walk to and from work on days when I don't work out at the office gym...so at least twice a week. That will give me 8 additional miles of exercising on non-workout days. That may not start this week, but by the next week for sure!
On purpose,
Mae
Wow that's great!!
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Yes, he is fine. It was a false alarm, thankfully!
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