Yes, I went off the grid for a few weeks, but I'm back. What a crazy December!!! We had a wonderful, warm, family filled Christmas!! Steven and Andrew, Rebecca, and their five kids were here for a week. What a crazy, action packed house this was!! We missed Carla and the rest of Jack's kids, but maybe next year we'll catch up with them.
I also got sick. I am pretty sure I had the flu. I had one day of a pretty decent fever (pushed over 101 for a bit) and then almost three weeks of weakness, aches, stuffiness, sore throat, and general malaise. The good news is I was starting to recover by the time everyone got here, the bad news is that I had to push through the flu to make sure everything was ready (with Jack's help, of course) for our visitors and Christmas. Steve left earlier in the week and Andrew's family left on Saturday morning. By late afternoon Saturday Jack and I had all the Christmas decorations (except for the tree) put away, the furniture back in the correct rooms in their correct position, and the house clean. It was a relief to have order restored.
I was back at work for a full and productive day, yesterday, and started my exercise routine back up again. I am feeling about 90% recovered from the flu, so that's good. Yesterday I ran on the treadmill. Today I swam.
I am working with a triathlon coach now, that started yesterday, so we will see how that goes. I also signed up for 11 weeks of the Big Spin class which is at a local community center. We will meet every Thursday for a 90 minute brick of some sort, with the last class being a swim/bike/run brick. Should be interesting. I feel a little intimidated by it. I hope the people are real and not "roosters." Ask Ruth what that means. I am encouraged by the fact that the group usually goes out afterwards to a local restaurant to hang out for a bit. I will try that at least a couple of times. One of my goals this year is to become part of a fitness community. That is one of the reasons I signed up for the class, after all. It's kind of funny, I completely forgot I signed up for it until my new coach mentioned, "I see you signed up for the Big Spin series." And I said to myself, "Oh yeah, I did." I guess it is already accomplishing the intended goal, which was to keep myself from getting lazy over the winter. I have a funny feeling that class will kick my ass on Thursday.
George, I'm sorry you have been lonely on the blog. Ruth was without power, I was without time or energy, but I don't know what was up with Thad and Elizabeth. I'll send an email out and remind everyone to get back to blogging!!!
Happy New Year, everyone. Let's make 2014 a year of fitness for all of us!!
PS - I gained about 3 pounds. I weighed 158.0 this morning. I am not too worried about it. I'm back in the saddle and it feels good!!
A blog where we can discuss our goals regarding health, fitness, food and general wellness. This should be a fun space where we congratulate each other for a job well done, plan fitness activities to do together, and ask for extra support when we need it. Advice is good - but only when asked for! Feel free to post as much or as little as you like according to your own goals.
I think that this might work. Just in case, Happy New Year. Kay and I should exceed group targets again in January. Shows what you can do with infinite leisure. Congrats to the overachievers in December. I guess that is George and Kay but a lot of you lot had special circumstance. Do we start over in January?
ReplyDeleteI think that we should start over in January. I'll try to update the chart for January today. If I can't do it, I'll ask Ruth to do it, but she may not be home right now.
DeleteGlad to see you post a comment. I'll send you Elizabeth's original email about the blog. If you click on the link in her email, it will set you up as a contributor to the blog, so you can write posts.
Happy New Year!!