My Journey With Health And Fitness – Pausing For The Day

For any of you who have been checking for blogs the last week, I mentioned I would be at the trailer and when I am there I tend to get lazy which means no blogging. It also tends to mean no training and eating things I normally avoid. Ok, there also may be a lot of wine consumed as well. I did some walking when the weather was relatively dry (like most Easter weekends it was torrential rains) as I had the dog with me but otherwise it was a relaxing several days watching movies with my sister. I know it is always good to do an occasional reset as long as there is a game plan to get back to it.

Having said that I did have a game plan. Despite my crazy schedule for the next couple of weeks I have planned out how to get at least one set of training done each day. I have also started checking the weather to see when I can move the training from in the garage to back outdoors (looks like Wednesday will be a good day for this). I have planned out what days I am going to do runs and when the focus will be on speed. All of this will be on top of some significant deadlines with my new client.

Yesterday went exactly as planned. I got up first thing and did a good walk on the treadmill. After cooling down it was time for some weights. Mondays are also the day that I lead my group of seniors on a walk so, by 10:30am yesterday I was already at 15,000 steps and I still had to walk the senior’s dog before dinner. Definitely a successful day.

Then this morning happened. I got up at the usual time, ate some breakfast had my tea and then it hit me, tummy troubles. When I realized there were issues I did what I normally do, tried to convince myself to push through it as I felt guilty for enjoying my time at the trailer. I just don’t want to backslide with the progress I have made the past few months so I was working hard at pushing myself to train. However, I realized it was just a bad plan and that missing today was going to have zero impact on my level of fitness. It took me a moment to get back to that mantra of listening to my body.

So, I am pausing for the day. Instead I will focus on the meetings I have to attend and I’ll be back at it again tomorrow. Not to worry though, while I am not training I will still get at least a shorter walk in this afternoon as I do the pre-dinner dog walking.