My Journey With Health And Fitness – Back At ‘Er

My favourite thing about being at the condo is my kitties. It is amazing how I can be away for months but the second they see me they come running. Again this is not just the feral cats but also the pets. They all know that I will give them treats and if they allow me they get some scritchies. Yesterday I actually fed 14 of them with only 2 of my usual group missing. So since I have been back I have fed the kities, seen monkies, thrown marshmallows at the agressive coatie but most importantly today, I saw my little friend Mia the chihuahua. When she saw me she refused to go with her owner and started dancing knowing what was coming. All of this (well, except the coatie) really make me happy.

For 4 days this week I have managed to get back to my routine. Here is what that includes, an early morning walk followed by a fitness class then another morning walk. I did have some technical problems the 1st few days regarding the fitness classes as for some reason the camera attached to the tv wouldn’t work nor would the microphone. I let the instructors know so they realized I was participating. This morning I did manage to get everything working which made for a much improved experience.

My goal while I am here is that weekdays I do walk/class/walk for a total of 3 hours of workouts. I do some other walking such as going to the recycle centre every few days as well. I have now kept my goal 4 days this week but I am realistic. For example, tomorrow my sister and I are going on a tour and are being picked fairly early in the morning. It doesn’t mean that I won’t do anything, I’ll still get in the 5:45am walk it’s just I won’t be doing the 2nd walk nor the fitness class. But that is ok, I can’t expect my sister to miss out on experiences just because I am a bit neurotic about working out. We have agreed to try and book what we can later in the morning but the ocasional miss is ok.

Yes, I am back at ‘er. The only thing I haven’t really done is go for a run. I’ll be honest, even 1st thing in the morning it is really warm and humid and I just can’t bring myself to run in that kind of weather. Instead, I am really trying to pick up my pace when walking to make up for it.