My Journey With Health And Fitness – And Then It All Went To Crap

Yesterday was the usual Wednesday morning coffee with the gang. This is always a fun event as most of us have for years been political activists and we drive my husband crazy because there is always an issue for us to debate and discuss. He always tries to ‘ban’ politics from the conversation and we just laugh at him. Yesterday was a nice day so I decided to run the 2km to the restaurant. My ebook stopped working which meant I had to put on one of my favourite soundtracks to run to. The first song was very upbeat and that got me running at a good pace. 15 minutes later and I was at the restaurant. Wait what? that meant I was running at 8 kph. Where the hell did that come from? My husband drove by me and told me later I was really running at a good clip. Hmm, my current training seems to be working but then I give credit to the much improved treadmill that I now use.

But overall my training went to crap yesterday. I am a very scheduled person. I know what time I am getting up, when I am working out, if I have other things to do during the day I have them all timed out, I go to bed at the same time every day and in general I just like to have everything mapped out. Now occasionally a curve ball gets thrown my way and I make adjustments to make sure everything gets fit in. Having said that, if I don’t have enough notice it stresses me out that my plans may not happen.

Tuesday night just before going to bed we realized that our fridge, which we have been babying along for a couple years now, packed it in. That meant frantically scrambling to empty everything in the freezer that had not started defrosting into the chest freezer in the garage. Fortunately my husband hoards coolers so we were able to empty out the fridge into the coolers and put them on the deck (note the weather is cooperating and keeping everything cool). Since there is no way we can go for long without a proper fridge, appliance shopping was a must yesterday.

After coffee off we went to find a deal on a new fridge. There is nothing really close to us (ok, The Brick but we doubted a good deal would be had there) so we had to find some discount and clearance centers which of course were a bit of a drive. After searching a few places we went back to the first store we had gone to and got what we felt was a good price and were particularly happy that they could deliver the fridge today. Now we are just waiting for it to arrive.

But this just screwed me for the day. The challenge was I had no idea how long the search was going to take meaning I couldn’t reschedule everything in my head. On top of that, as stressful and expensive as this was, Dry February prevented me from trying to relax with a glass of wine. By time we were done my day was wrecked and I didn’t get the workouts done that I had planned. This of course just heightened my anxiety level as I have done so well lately.

I had to sit back and acknowledge that in reality my day had gone to crap. But having said that, I still got an intense walk in first thing, a short run and then my volunteer walk with a senior’s dog. So how far off from my 20,000 step goal for the day was I? I actually still did 17,500 steps and got in all of my zone minutes. Ok, maybe it was just in my head that the day went to crap, really I still worked hard and those lost 2,500 steps isn’t going to make any sort of real difference to my overall health and fitness goals.

Time to stop beating myself up and keep moving forward.