The Thing I Am Doing

April 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm (Friends, General Gobbledygook, Weightastic, Working It Out)

It seems like everyone I know is doing some new form of exercise. My dear friend Jeni is trying P90X. Shawn is skating her heart out in roller derby. Jane has started running. My friend Angela? Is doing a race every single month this year, including three half-marathons for the Triple Crown and convinced me to run a half marathon with her. (TIP: Always run charity runs and you can write off all your registration fees on your taxes!)

That half-marathon was an eye opener for me. It made me realize that I am not cut out for doing just one thing over and over and over. I mean, I love being able to say “Yeah bitches, 13.1 miles WHATTA WHAT!” but on the other hand: dude, I’ve been in physical therapy since the end of March because of the damn bursitis that race gave my hip. So I decided to go back to the exercise program that never bored me and never injured me but always, ALWAYS exhausted me.

I started Crossfitting again.

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Boring update (now with cute dog!)

April 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm (General Gobbledygook, Pets, Working It Out)

At the beginning of the year, I made this spreadsheet in Google that was titled “Things I Want To Do in 2012″. It wasn’t a very ambitious list; there’s a lot of cleaning projects on there, because honestly, our apartment’s storage areas are disgracefully unorganized and stuffed full of crap that we don’t need. And there’s a shelf that fell down at least a year ago in the spare room (aka The Cats’ Room) (yes, my cats have their own room and don’t even start with me because two of them are OLD and GETTING SICKLY and deserve their own room so there) (also, this way their cat boxes are somewhere not in front of me at all times, hooray!) that still needs to be hung back up.

For Q1, my goals were “File Taxes” (done, and I won’t even tell you how simple our taxes are to do because you might very well hate me), “Finish budget for 2012″ (done, and woo, we can afford our ten zillion vacations this year!), “Scarves for Weetacon” (did 1, and it was gorgeous!), “check out CrossFit Sun” (done, signed up, drank the Kool-Aid, lifting things up and putting them down and doing things like ACTUAL PUSH UPS on a regular basis), “Weetacon stuff” (done, and oh that sounds so deceptively simple! I just didn’t want to list everything out because I was too lazy and also, skeered). Undone: Reading and commenting on a friend’s spec scripts, cleaning out and reorganizing my kitchen, cleaning out and reorganizing my closet. I’ma call that a win, because DID I MENTION I RAN A HALF MARATHON IN JANUARY? Read the rest of this entry »

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Love, hate, ow

January 19, 2012 at 9:01 pm (General Gobbledygook, Working It Out)

Remember back when I was all “Oh running is so awesome and I am loving it and WOO ENDORPHIN CRAZYTALK!”?

Yeah. Well. Now it’s more like “I like running, if it’s not too hot, and I got enough sleep, and my legs don’t hurt and also, I don’t run more than 6 miles anymore okay?” because it turns out that running long distances does not agree with my legs. Seriously, I ended up with these crazy ass shin splints that hurt all the damn time and I hated running with every fiber of my being. So I stopped running for a couple weeks and my legs stopped hurting and then I liked it again.

Which is good, because yo, I’m “running” a half marathon on Sunday. Emphasis on those quotes there, because I am still super duper slow. I mean, I can run a whole mile without stopping in like 13 minutes which is AWESOME, but I can’t run 13.1 of them. So I’ll be doing the Galloway/interval thing, running 3 minutes and then walking for 1. And when I’m done with that half marathon, I will never again run another double digit run ever again amen.

I have very, very modest goals for this race. Finish in less than 3 1/2 hours. Average a sub 15 minute mile. Don’t get hurt. Don’t be last. Don’t cry. Get that goddamn medal around my neck. Honestly, the only things keeping me from NOT doing the half on Sunday are the medal and the fact that I have spent a ton of freaking money on shoes and gear and registration and training group stuff and I need to see a return on my investment.

It won’t be the last time I run a race; I am one third of the way to my goal of running an entire 5K so I’ll keep doing those. And 10K seems to be my just right long distance so I’ll do a few more of those. But those half and full marathons? I am not enough woman for those, and kudos to people who are.

But hey, on the good side, all this running has made me realize one thing: I fucking miss the hell out of Crossfit. So I’m going to get back into THAT next month. Jumping out of one crazy into another. Yep, that’s me.

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