The Point Is...?

I'm not long back from a small uphill walk.  Grandaughter had an assembly at school, parents invited...So I rode into daughters place then we walked up to the school.  It took only 6 minutes to ride in and 20min to walk up the hill but it wasn't fast.  We were early so walked around the block, still early so walked halfway down the hill then back up to the school.   Then walked down the hill to daughters where I got on me bike and whizzed home.   'Twas hardish.  But good.

Many many many years ago when I lived where the daughter is now I used to walk this hill 2 or 3 times a day, 5 days a week.  Walk the kids to school, walk home.  Walk up to pick them up after school, walk home.  It wasn't hard and we were all  the better for it.   Eventually they got big enough to not need me then bigger and didn't want me...so my walking up the hill twice a day 5 days a week stopped.  Sometimes I walked up for some reason or another... To make up for this I met with a group of friends in the evenings a few times a week and we would walk the block of the town.  It was hard.  But fun.  Friends move on, things change, it wasn't fun doing it alone, we moved out of town, I got sick, got unfit...and things have never been the same.  I have never regained the fitness that I had way back then.  Now, I don't even know if it is possible.

What I do know is that for me it needs to be a regular thing but there needs to be a purpose.  I can't see the  point in walking to the corner and back.  Or around the block that just brings me back here.  Or driving for half an hour to do a beach or bush walk.  I know the *point* should be that I will get fitter and so then be able to do more but I cannot get that into my head enough to actually do it.

If I had a reason to go into town every day I would ride or walk but there is no reason so I don't.   If I had another dog I would have to take it for a walk every day and would but there is not much chance of me getting another dog.  If I had friends to walk with it would be a fun thing to do but I have no friends... 

I'm hoping that this challenge we have set will become the point.    I'm hoping I will drive to the bush or beach and walk at least a few times a month.  I'm hoping I will start moving every day again.  I'm hoping I will not stay too lazy and cancel the challenge.  That would be sad.  That would be bad!

Details of the challenge will come before the end of the month.  It is a big one for me.  Why don't you all give it some thought and set yourself a challenge too.  If you do, please come and tell me all about it.

July Goal. Failed!!

Well I failed the July goal bigtime so is there really much point to posting an August one?  Probably not but I'm gunna anyway.  Here goes...  Hmmm, might help if I had some.

I will give it some thought and come back.

July Goal.

This month I am aiming to move in some way for on at least 25 days.

That will allow for a few days working, a couple of *can't be fagged* and a sick day or or 2. 

Just did me maths...And seeing that we are 3 days in and I have moved once, if I want any more *can't be fagged* days then I better not get sick.

Off to have some Nettle tea.

*something* will be a bike ride, ex-bike, walk or ex vidio of some kind.

Halfway Mark.

We're halfway through the month and I am still on track with moving every day.  It's getting easier, I'm starting to like it, I'm starting to want to do more...

I need to remember not to overdo things though, to listen to the old bod, not to push too hard but enough to improve...So far it seems to be working.

I have done the 10km ride but still need to do the ride to the next town and back.  I think that is less but there and back may be more.  In my head it is a long way but I don't think it's as far as I think.  I have done it before, maybe even last year, so it should be easy enough.  Will find out soon aye!

In the meantime I just need to stay focused, not leave the moving 'til too late in the day and keep thinking about the next big rock I want to climb. 

Do you have any goals?  How are you going with them?

It's been a month already...

I cannot believe that it has been so long since I have been here...but the dates don't lie and it seems that it has really been that long.  Shame on me.  Shame, shame, shame...

I don't think that I am any fitter than I was last week and no fitter than I was the week before that so I'm not doing much right.
BUT!  I am less fitter than I will be next Friday.    Less fitter?  Less fit is what I mean aye.  Thinking I need to go back to school and learn me some proper English too.

Over the last month while here at home I have done no walking, no riding.   I have done the laps around the backyard a few times.  Mowed a few times...Tried to do *proper* push-ups...and can't even manage 1.   Can do 1/2 dozen half girly ones but that's probably not worth bragging about.  HoHum...

OK.  This morning I went out and did 10 laps.  That's twice what I started with all those weeks ago so even though I am not doing them a few times or even every day like I planned I am doing more so that is 1 good thing.  I will try and do them every day from now until the rest of the month and see if I can get them up to 15.  That is still not a great distance as I am only going around the back yard area but as I do more the distance is increasing so it can't be a bad thing.  I also would like to be able to do at least 1 complete proper push-up so will work on that as well.

Here's to starting again and being fitter by Friday.

It's February Already.

Well we're already nearly halfway into this month.  Am I fitter than I was at the start ?
I dunno.  I don't really feel fitter but I am now doing 2 extra laps but I am no longer doing them every day let alone a few times a day.   I still haven't been to a walk to the corner to check my timing...but I have thought about it a few times.  I haven't ridden the bike since that one time at the end of last month...

What have I done in the weeks gone by... Laps a few times. I am doing 2 more laps than when I started but not as often so I supose that cancels that out......Mowing, of course, that's always a given.   Raking, digging, chookchasing,...they too are always a given.   I walked around the zoo for a few hours.   I have twice walked through water for a couple of hours.  The water walking will maybe be a weekly thing now but if not weekly then at least 3 times through the months.  Ummm surely there is more...there should be more I know that.

What will I be doing this week coming...   Lots! and I am not ready for it.  We are going away for a few days, leaving tomorrow.  We are taking our bikes.  We will be walking, riding, swimming.   I have done something to my back again and though I am looking forward to the days of activity I am hoping that the husband doesn't have to rescue me from myself too often.  I have the Deepheat packed so if nothing else at least I will smell nice.

This is me last Wednesday evening.   I pulled the grandkid along for about half an hour but mostly I was, and will be, walking by myself.  I'm thinking this may have done the back in even though it was a couple of days afterwards before it started giving me trouble.  But I had been digging and pulling plants out throughout the week so...I dunno....

Get Fitter. By Friday...

OK, who would have believed that it's been a month or so since I came here.  I think because I am not coming here I am not focusing on getting fitter.  So I have decided that I will come here more often to write something.  To write anything.  Regardless of how bad I have been at becoming fitter I will still come here and post.  It will, I'm sure, make me realise what a great SA I am and it will make me totally ashamed for you all to see that and I will start moving and become fitter to show everyone that I can.   I'm sure that makes sense somehow, to someone...

It is Saturday.  I am fat and unfit but I WILL be fitter by next Friday.   FitterByFriday.  Thats what the header says and that is what my head will say.  I will be fitter.  By next Friday.  So, By next Friday I will be fitter than I am right now. 

I will go have a cup of tea and come up with a plan.  It might involve a Vision Board...It will involve some moving.

November Already.

I have been home since Tuesday and don't seem to have much to report.
Apart from a short beach walk that morning before we left the day consisted of Service Station food and sitting for 7 hours. 
I was out all day Wed and Thursday and though I knocked off early on the Wed and managed a bit of mowing when I got home there was no walking.  Thursday was another nothing day. 
Friday, OK, I did spend from 5pm until 6.45 raking and levelling sand and then mowing so kinda pleased with that. 

I was hoping to get more mowing in today and tomorrow but it is raining and unless it's stops by this afternoon the mowing wont happen.

Goals for November?  I have none.  I'm feeling like it's all a waste of time.  I am putting that down to the crap food I have eaten over the last week so I'm hoping that as I eat better now that we are home that feeling will dissipate.

One out of 3, Not Good.

Saturday.  Nothing.
Sunday.  Nothing!!
Monday.  OK it took all day but finally I got out there and mowed for 40minutes.  And then...and then...I rode to the corner and a bit further.  And back again.  That only took 14 minutes but it was something that I wasn't going to do but did.  How good am I!


I'm hoping to get 5 days of something in again this week so now need to do something each day.
I really need to plan something for Saturdays.  Missing that seems to puts me in the wrong frame of mind.

October 8th - 10th.

Saturday. I didn't do anything 'cept potter around all day and achieved very little.  I was so tired but really I just could not be bothered.

Sunday.  Another day where I was tired and not bothered but I came inside just after 6 ready for a shower and bed sat down and had a think, decided I'd just walk to the bridge and back so donned me shoes, told Hubby I was going to the railway box...Got that far and kept going all the way to the corner and back.  Pleased with that and it wasn't hard, I had decent shoes on so no trouble there.

Monday.  Walked home from town so 20minutes and will walk back in this afternoon.  Planned to walk back in but it rained and they came out and picked me up so second 20min didn't happen. 
This afternoon I ate a couple of slices of fruit loaf so thought I better do something so rode to the corner and back.  Just over 5min there and just over 7min back.  It was a lot harder coming home as it was into the wind.

Two days from the five for the week completed. 

I am so tired again lately so am thinking I might go get the blood and Iron levels checked again but it could still be the remnants of the cold/cough we had.  That still hasn't gone completely.  
I'm taking the Iron tablets and the Nexium so it should be right but I'll give it another week, dose up on Liver a few times and see how I feel.

October, Day Five,

Done!  I have moved for the minimum 5 days for this week.
Todays effort was a short ride, around the block plus a bit more, maybe 17minutes.
I am out all day tomorrow so chances are nothing will be done but am not discounting it yet.

I may have reached my goal of 5 days but that doesn't mean that I will not try and do more and I'm hoping for a least one more *something*

This afternoon I thought about going for a short walk...but didn't.  Thought about having a sleep...but didn't.  I did a 1/2 an hours mowing instead.

October 2.

Yep, another ride done, another day off the total.  This is easy!

OK, I know that the rides are short, under 5km, they will be for a week or two then I will start adding another or going further.  We went out yesterday and though we both thought we were better after our bout of illness the late night and cold air seems to have brought it back.  Sore throat again, coughing heaps...So a week or two before I start pushing things might be in order. 

I plan on doing a short bushwalk in a few weeks time so will need to add some walking in over the next couple of weeks but the bushwalk I have planned will only be a couple of hours so shouldn't be a problem.

100% on target.  Only three more days needed for this week.  I will be Fitter by Friday.

1st October.

Well so far I am 100% up with my October goal.

A ride around the block.  It surprises me at hard it is but seeing as I have been unwell for nearly a fortnight and lazy for 6 months or more I know I shouldn't be.  I got up to riding 20km and now 3 or 4 has me panting and sore. 
So sad, my bad, will be fixed.
One day down so only need 4 more for the week.  How hard can that be.

September Ends. October Goals.

Last day of the month and by 5.30pm I still hadn't done any walking or biking...Just could not be fagged...

But I thought I should then thought some more, donned some shoes, got the bike out and decided to go for a quick one, maybe towards town to the railway crossover.  Started that but had forgotten that the road into town goes upward a bit and my legs were so sore so didn't go to the railway line like I planned but turned round and headed for home.  That was a lot easier so I buzzed passed the driveway and continued up the road.  To the corner.  It was bleedin' hard getting home again though because that road too goes slightly up.
More than 4km but probably not 5...I don't know as I can't get the speedo thing on the bike to work properly.  I will have to get Hubby to show me how to set it.  Again.

I am sitting here and thinking that I am feeling much better than a week ago, the cold is all but gone and the iron is maybe starting to kick in again.  There is no reason for me to not continue with the riding or some walking every day. 

October starts tomorrow, three months until next year.   I will set the goal of doing something at least 5 days a week for October.  Anyone want to join me?

Starting Again. Again!

I have been unwell with a rotten cold for more than a week now and though I am feeling a bit better today I am still nowhere near what I should be.   The fact that I haven't been able to stomach my Iron or Nexium meds hasn't helped either.

This lovely weather that we have had over the last couple of days has got me wanting to get out there and enjoy a few bushwalks but I know that even if I talked Hubby into going somewhere I wouldn't be able to do any walking and breathing at the same time.  And that's something that you do kinda need to be able to do.
 
I need to make a start somewhere so soon I will go for a bikeride.  I don't have any thoughts that it will be fast or far but it will be a start.

Time To Start. Again!.

It's been a long time since I wrote anything here and that's been because it's been a long time since I did anything to write about.  But next week is the start of Spring.  Not that that should matter, I should be moving regardless of the season but the warm weather is usually a time of lighter and fewer clothes so it seems to get some of us non-movers up and moving.  I'm hoping it will work with me.

I have been very slapdash with taking my iron tablets, Hubby has been home way more often than is good for healthy eating, I have been more sore than usual, I am lazy and can't be bothered...There are way too many excuses.

I'm hoping that I will get back into it and that writing on here again will get me doing stuff.  Some days I might just come in and tell you all that I did nothing but I know that writing here will mean  that there are days that I will do something even if it's to let you know that I am still trying.  (very trying, according to Hubby) 

I'm thinking that mowing the lawn for half an hour 4 days a week will be better than nothing and it might get the grass back under control.  So I will now count the *hard* stuff that I do around here as that way it will at least look like I am doing something and it might make me want to do more.

And I eat too much!

So to be *Fitter by Friday* I will do at least 3 lots of mowing and I will make up a pot of lentil and vegetable mush so as to get some extra goodness in me.   And it will be liver for lunch today.  There will be a bike ride around the block sometime between today and next Friday as well.

So now that it's *out there* I have to do it don't I?  That's what I'm hoping for anyway.

Getting Back Into It.

I haven't been away anywhere over the last week so I haven't done any walking.  Or bikeriding.  What a weak excuse aye?
And May is nearly finished, only a day to go,,,will I get a walk in on Tuesday or not.  Feeling like I do now then I probably wont...BUT...
Come June and I am going to really get back into it all again.

I am reading a couple of fitness threads over at the SimpleSavings forum so with posting there and coming here every day I have no reason to be slack. 
I have also printed a few signs to stick around the place.  One will go on the screen here, one on the toilet door, one on the kitchen window.  All places where I will see the prompt to go do something throughout the day.

I'm not sure why I keep stopping, I'd be where I want to be if I just kept at it but anyway...I have plenty of time, I want to be fitter, I enjoy the bikeriding, the cooler weather is here...And I will be moving throughout June.  Come join me.

Another 3 x 30min Challenge Week.

Robyn has challenged me to do 3 x 30min walks or bikerides with her again this week and I have accepted so if anyone sees me slacking off please give me a kick up the behind to get me moving.

I will walk to the corner and back and do at least 1 x hour ride.  That will get 2 sessions out of the way.  Then another walk or ride...

Did a bit of stepping today and had a 15min walk but won't count that as it wasn't long enough.  Will walk tomorrow (Thursday)...

Not Fitter This Week.

Well I am still around but not doing too much.  Not even doing enough really.
It seems that even though I am fat and unfit I am still thinking that it is a waste of time to go for a walk or a bikeride but I think nothing of being on the computer for hours at a time.  Somehow that's not a waste of time...Dumb aye?  Wouldn't it be great if I couldn't use the computer unless I pedalled a bike, have you seen those setups?  How cool would that be!

I have been outside mowing, mulching, digging...but not enough to get fitter.

So I need a mindchange again.  I need an attitude adjustment.

This week I will be digging up and replanting a bougainvillea, mowing, cleaning out a chookyard....Collecting barrowloads of dirt from the chookyards and then shovelling it onto the gardens.,  washing a couple of windows...
Notice there is no walking or riding in there though...

OK.  This week I WILL walk or ride at least 3 times for at least 30min.

It is written and so it shall be done.

End of week roundup.

Weekly goals:
2x10km ride   NO, only did one and that was just now!
1x12km ride   YES, managed 20km.
2x walks.  No, none at all.


So what a SA I am.  Not sure how I can expect good results if I don't put in the work.
At the time I had very valid reason for not doing them but really, I could have, SHOULD have worked around them.
And I weigh more than 1200gm than I did last Friday!!  Hohum...