My Journey With Health And Fitness – Achieving My Goals

Yesterday I had once again overbooked myself. Normally on Fridays I do my bootcamp then hit the road for 2 hours of walking. I usually take the earbuds for my phone so that on my way home I can start calling my seniors. However, yesterday I had a Zoom meeting from 9am-3pm so I was absolutely crunched for time. I asked my sister if she could cover my seniors (she has done this for me before) and she agreed to help out. I came home from bootcamp, did a quick rehydrate and rest then hit the road. I managed to be home by 8:45am giving me just enough time to change and log on to the meeting. This is only going to get worse as tax season is starting and I am already dealing with 2 clients.

I set myself some pretty significant goals this week because as you may remember I have decided to challenge myself. The goals were 5 days doing at least a 6km run, 5 days of at least a 5km walk which would include Oxford Hill and 6 days of fitness class. Yes, this may look pretty optimistic but somehow I managed to pull it off. This even included a couple runs in the rain and cold but what the hell, I am feeling so good it just makes me determined. What motivates me even more is the fact that I did it so I know I can keep doing it.

Now it is time to set goals for next week. You know I suddenly realized I haven’t done this since I was doing the 6 week challenge last summer but now it just feels right to get back to goal setting. So here is what I plan to do, 6 days of fitness class (this tends to be the easy one since that is what I normally do), 5 days doing at least a 5km walk including Oxford Hill and finally 5 days of running a minimum of 6km with at least 1 8km run. I’m hoping the weather cooperates with all of this but I am going to do my best. I think I might add one more thing to this list, in each fitness class I will use the heaviest weight I can tolerate for at least one exercise per class. I admit, that is the one that scares me the most.

Oh, one last goal that I have achieved. Sunday my husband, sister and I started 4 weeks of being alcohol free. The end of today we will be 1/4 of the way through and I have to say it has been pretty easy even though I miss my wine. A trick we are using is finding some awesome non-alcoholic drinks such as gin, margaritas and beer. I did try a non-alcoholic wine last night (my brother kindly bought if for me thinking I would prefer that to beer) but when I later checked into it the sugar content was way higher than I like so nixing that going forward. After this 1st week I am confident this is another goal that I will achieve and in the meantime it is really helping me push forward on my fitness.