My Journey With Health And Fitness – Being Realistic

I woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of a raging thunderstorm. It sounded like the thunder clouds were directly over our building and some of the thunder actually seemed to shake our condo. It was so loud I wasn’t able to get back to sleep until the clouds had moved on. This should have been my clue to turn the alarm off and just stay in bed.

I got up at my normal time and the wind was just howling. Once I was dressed and ready to go I took a peek outside and the wind was gusting like crazy. Now you should picture that hurricane Milton is forming and will be hitting Florida tomorrow night. The fear is it will become a category 5 hurricane which will be catastrophic. Fortunately Milton will not directly hit us but like hurricane Helene it will have a major impact on our weather not just bringing the wind but likely some intense rain. And so I decided walking in wind gusting 60 kph would not be in my best interest (my husband would later ask why I didn’t go back to bed but really by time I made this decision I was fully awake).

To be honest it is not walking in the wind that was concerning. I have walked in some pretty good windstorms at home and honestly since the weather here is still quite warm it would be far more pleasant than doing a walk in a windstorm in October along my beloved beach. But I decided to be realistic and step back for maybe a couple days. We are surrounded by jungle here and some of that jungle is still suffering from months of lack of rain. That means when a windstorm comes through a lot of debris gets strewn all over the road and sometimes it can even cause some of the trees in our complex to topple. The other danger is that I go out a good hour before the sun is up so there is a risk of a power outage which of course would take out all of the street lights. I don’t thinking walking in a windstorm in when it is pitch black out would be in the best of my interests.

Because I didn’t do my walk did not mean I didn’t do my normal online workout. I will admit I did think about just taking the day for about 2 seconds but I decided I couldn’t justify no working out. At the end of the workout I was really glad I had done it because it was quite brutal for a strength workout and it made me feel good.

The bottom line is sometimes I just have to be realistic when it comes to my obsession with walking. There is no reason I should put myself into a dangerous situation just to be able to give myself a pat on the back if I get through it. Instead I am going to pat myself on the back for doing 75 pushups today, that should be more than enough to help keep me in shape for a potential couple days without walking.