JeanieMd

You know how you feel after running a good race? A long one, where you pushed yourself?

I don't know if it was my whopping two mile run in 18 minutes Tuesday or if it was pushing that 80 pound bale of hay up the Mt. Everest of my property, but my thighs are whipped.

I'm taking off from exercising today.

Too tired.

Speaking of being tired, TJ napped yesterday from 1-3 (at daycare), then fell asleep on the drive home from daycare and napped ...

After a bad sleeping night, I got up early to feed the animals. Realized that we were out of hay, so I rolled the wheelbarrow down to get some hay. We found a new supplier, who is supplying much better hay, but oh my god, he bales them in these things that are about four feet long and weigh close to 80 pounds. I nearly gave myself a hernia lifting that thing into the wheelbarrow, much less pushing it up to where I can feed the horses. I was sweating like a racehorse by the time I got it where ...

I'm pathetic, really and truly pathetic with some things. My house was a disaster on Christmas morning. No new presents under the tree from Santa (they were still in the middle of the living room floor with the wrapping paper). Christmas cards were strewn about on the table. It looked like a pig sty. TJ's 3 1/2 and this is the last year...the absolute last year (mark my words) that I will be unprepared for Christmas. Two years ago my lesson learned was to put up the tree before December 22nd. ...

I thought Christmas was a week away.

I'm woefully unprepared.

Went shopping at lunch yesterday, went out early today and shopped and had a holiday pot luck luncheon today. Did a little bit of on-line shopping and I'm (thankfully) just about done. I'll need to overnight ship a couple of gifts...my own fault for waiting so late.

I am so stuffed from the holiday party I really should go and walk on the treadmill but I just can't get myself up out of this ...

I made it to the gym all five days this week. Hallelujah. (Or however that word is spelled). It was rough at first. We've been battling some pretty nasty sleep issues. I'm plum worn out. But I stuck with it. It doesnt' really bother me (too much) that I can't run fast. It doesn't really bother me (too much) that I can't run too long. I'm doing it. And that keeps me going. No matter what the American Heart Association says (at least 18 minutes of cardio a day), the plain and simple fact ...

Ok, just to make sure everyone understands my teeny tiny limited sense of warped humor, this exercise blog of mine is part poke at myself for what a slug I am, part journaling to keep me honest, and part record keeping to keep me motivated. I also, to tell the truth, want to do it to encourage others that they don't have to go out an run 10 miles to get back into shape. Or, they don't have to run fast. They just have to go out and get their heart rate up. It's really an individual thing...and ...

I had a raging headache this morning. Popped four aspirin in the hopes of getting it under control. I wonder if it's because I had sugar free hot chocolate this morning...I won't drink any tomorrow and I'll see how I feel.

So, I went to the gym at lunch, thinking there was no way I could run because of my pounding head. I began walking, and then picked up a slow jog. 1.7 miles in 18 minutes. Nothing to sky write about, but it got my heart rate up, and that's why I keep at it. ...

Ya know, a good rest is always a good thing, but man is it hard to get back into it. It's so much easier to go out and eat a cheeseburger for lunch, or grab some sushi. And yet, after the workout, I always feel so much better. Today was no exception.

I ran at a leisurely 11 minute pace (figuring I'd ease back into it). Did a whopping 1.9 miles in 20 minutes. Woo hoo - watch out all you fast runners, Miss Snail here is too far behind you to eat your dust!

Stretched, ...

I've really stopped blogging. More from a lack of time than anything else.

That and the fact that my exercise routine is really really bumming me out.

About six weeks ago I decided to do what the "experts" recommend and mixed up my workout. Decided to bike two days a week, run two days a week and use a cross trainer one day a week. I lift different weights now, and do different ab work.

My biking has definitely improved, but my running sucks. ...

We've actually had to close the windows at night because it's too cool. I love this time of year. There's something very earthy to me when leaves begin to decompose.

I had a really pathetic run today. I've been battling sleep issues with TJ...he is going to bed so late and last night he woke up twice. Once because of a nightmare (a giant squid was eating him) and then the second time he had to go to the bathroom. His ear infection (I believe) is cleared up and he's sleeping better ...