Side note - My heel feels better today than it has since the Dallas Marathon...I actually feel like I could probably run on it but I won't do it today. I am signed up for speed training starting next Saturday (1/10/15) - I am going to try my best to just wait until then to run.
In the mean time, I have been swimming, riding and lifting weights, setting goals and signing up for things.
I can only swim about 60 yards without running out of breathe (doing what I have learned is called the front crawl or freestyle?). I am meeting with a lady at the YMCA today in hopes that she can help me with that. I haven't shared with her that I only took beginner's swim lessons, and I am not 100% certain I passed the class as I would never dive in the pool. Oh well. I have swam 1/2 mile at once, so far, doing a combo of the front crawl and floating on my back. So, my goal this year is to swim 1 full mile without stopping. Totally doable, um, once I learn how :)
Biking. I only do this 30 minutes at a time. In that amount of time my 'lady parts' are pretty much finished screaming and are just numb. Not in a good way numb....in a makes me walk funny numb.
My goal, after I actually PURCHASE A BIKE, is to ride for 30 miles with my lady parts in tact. I believe the seat can be adjusted in such a way that this doesn't happen...otherwise I will prob be standing up most of the time.
Lifting weights - I have been lifting weights once a week for a couple of years now. That sounds good and looks pretty good as I read it, but here's the deal, I do the SAME freaking routine every single time. So, I am changing up my routine and incorporating NEW machines in the rotation. YIKES. I have prided myself on accepting change pretty well but this change has caused a little anxiety for some reason, not sure why. My goal is the continue adding new machines and not doing the same ones each time.
Other Gym goals include 100 push ups, from the toe. Currently I am doing 20 consecutive. Last year I was up to 75 before I hurt my shoulder, so I know 100 is totally doable. Another random gym goal is 50 handstand push ups. Currently, I struggle with 1. This may prove to be my most difficult goal. Difficult goals are good, right?
I have also decide that I will run a half marathon in 1:45, or less. THAT is so hauling ass for me it is crazy, but I need crazy. And I need to "let go" when I am running - I struggle with that but plan on overcoming it this year. It is mental. I may need to seek help on it.
Oh, and I signed up for a Sprint Tri on March 15. Two weeks after the Cowtown Half I am signed up for. Oh, and it is the day after the Panther City 5K that I am already signed up for. And I don't have a bike yet. And I can't do the front crawl swim stroke that far yet. And I haven't run since December 14th. I am only concerned, because, well, I am not at all concerned. Freaky.
I have known for a long time that I need a creative outlet in my life. Creativity brings needed calm and peace to my life so why wouldn't I just do it already? Well, I guess most of the time when I have "free time" my initial thought is "let's go to the sports bar, Tammy" and off I go. So, I am training myself to at least stop and think through if that is REALLY what I want to do, if it is I see if I can compromise and wait an hour, do something creative, then go see my peeps at the Sports Bar. Sometime creativity wins, sometimes it doesn't but I am setting my intention to have creativity be a bigger, purposeful, part of my life. My goal is to have creativity time at least once a week.
I received a link to setting your word for the year (created by Christine Kane) and my word is Openness. It is honestly the perfect word for me. My lack of Openness holds me back from all sorts of other things. That being said, I am going to share a link to this blog with an on-line group I am in very soon...and I will not go back and edit any earlier posts.
Big. Hairy. Step. For. Me.
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