A General Update Generally Speaking

Oh man. I am really struggling with fitness again! I like running. I do. I just don't make myself do it as often as I should. Let's see... does chasing a toddler around count? It really should.

I bought a FitBit in December hoping that would help. But then it wouldn't sync up to my iPhone and so that put a damper on my wearing it. I mainly wanted to see how low my heartrate got when I slept. It used to get down to the low 30s. I discovered this when I broke my ankle and the hospital machine that monitors heartrate kept alarming when I would fall asleep since my heartrate would slow - the nurse relunctantly turned it down a few beats after 5+ times of it occurring and it was the lowest she said she ever saw. Yeah - Go me! ...except that's besides any point I should be making at this point...

I've done a few Gaelic Football practices. I've gone running a few times. Even to the track to add in some plyos and bleacher workouts. I can still run 3.0 miles - be it so slowly it hurts my spirit. It makes me long for days of real fitness and being able to run a mile in single digit land. I'm up around 10:30 pace - that knowledge is killing me! ...Though also the runs kind of kill me... so that is a real life slam to the face telling me that "Hey you! You on the couch! Perhaps you should exercise more?"

On the plus side... my weight. I weigh now what I weighed when I was between 6-7 months pregnant. So... yeah... That also kind of kills morale. It really should be a motivator - it would be nice to lose 10 pounds and be a happy weight. But so far that has only helped me lose 8 pounds though I somehow regained 2? ...oh right, it's probably because I can't stop eating cookies...

And I'm not sure how long the treadmill had been broken before I discovered it was broken. I saw that its light wasn't on and I asked Ryan "Why is it off?" He said, "It's broken. It's been broken for a while." Well, that pretty much sums up how much and how well I've been exercising recently.

So hi there future me reading my blog! You're back here again. How long has it been since I've seen you? 6 months? 1 year? 2? When are you finally going to say enough is enough and walk 1500 miles in your own shoes again??? I'm waiting. You can do this! You've done it before! Now let's go do it again!