Be healthy, be fit, be strong

based on the following criteria.

1. I’ve identified what’s making me sick as much as seems possible and am managing it.
2. Can run 5K, can swim half mile in under 20 minutes, can ride bike 10 miles. Can I do it back to back? We’ll see.
3. Excellent blood pressure readings and today new resting heart rate of 54 bpm!
4. My body is able to take on physical challenges I throw at it without problem – climbing rock wall, kayaking, prolonged leaping and tumbling with the chum, etc.

So. Strong and fit. Healthy enough for fall – we’ll see how I deal with winter.

Wow. I managed a 2 day break this time.

Doctor’s appointment on Monday. Honestly, I’m starting to hope there’s something else wrong – at least that might be treatable. The amount of fatigue and pain seems to increase with each one.

Knock wood. It will probably be chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia or something else untreatable.

Week review
I’ve lost the ability to tell if I’m sick or not anymore. Will be making appointment with Doctor again on Monday to rule out the plague or cat scratch fever or whatever.

Awesome spa vacation. Ate very well. Confused body and the whole digestive system went haywire. Exercise consisted of two 40 minute cardio sessions on the machine and a couple days of abs.

Run today – Today’s Run Time: 32 minutes

15R/ 1.5W/ 12R/ 1.5W/ 4.5 run
Time in Target Zone: 5:41
Time above TZ: 25:25

So clearly there’s room for improvement in the heart rate!

The rest of the week’s plan

• Priority #1 continues to be the damn bike. I really need to get on it pretty much every day. Must plan with GG when he gets home from soccer class.
• Diet. It’s GG’s birthday on Thursday so I’m a bit screwed, but I can continue with virtue until then. Except for the cake.
• Run MW – try for two 20 minutes on Wednesday?
• Swim before family dinner (T) and one other time???
• Continue with the traditional 100 abs. Hopefully easy by next week.

And now I’m sick again. Just another cold, but coming just 3 days after shaking the last one? I’m too fatigued to vaccuum, much less run or bike today. I just hate this.

I’m almost to the point of visiting my step mom’s herbal chiropractor healer chick and taking magical herbs or whatever – and I totally don’t believe in that.

Massive cry yesterday about this. And then I feel bad for being such a wimp. Yes, I’ve had colds for, oh, 75% of 2008. But it’s not debilitating. It’s not a fatal disease. It’s just colds.

But I’m so frustrated about it and I’m frustrated that people’s reaction is now almost accusatory – like it’s my fault, like there’s something else I should be doing. I’ve been to the doctor. I’m taking the supplements. I’m sleeping. I’m eating healthy and exercising. I wash my hands constantly.

Crap. Just crap.

Week review
Finally not ill by the end of the week. Hack. Exercise consisted of nature hike with chum, rock moving in the garden, and one good swim.
Dieted several days. Lost a pound and a half – then hormones hit and had to eat potato chips. Not looking at scale today. Or tomorrow probably.

Next week’s plan.

• Priority #1 is the damn bike. I can’t do it alone yet, and the chum is too underfoot. So TThF at least. I bet I can get to Graton. I bet.
• Diet. 165 is in sight. If I could get there that would be a great start to the summer.
• Run MWF
• Swim before family dinner and one other time
• Try Tia’s Ab workout and do crunches. Be at the traditional 100 by the end of next week. Really this time. Cripes!

Week review
Became ill. Coughed up mucous and felt very very tired. Did no exercise.
Tried to diet. Failed but lost a pound. Funny since Bumble’s plan for this week included, “Lose a pound by just thinking about it.” Apparently that works, who knew?

• Diet. 2 pounds might make me able to wear shorts with comfort. Let that be the mantra.
• Get well enough to exercise lightly on Monday
• On the bike 2 days
• Run 2 times but don’t push.
• Do crunches. Be at the traditional 100 by the end of next week

• Stay healthy.
• Lose 5 pounds
• Get up to 30 minutes straight running
• Go back to the gym
• Start sit ups/ push ups
• Be able to close the bike goal. Finally.

I’ve decided the new fitness week starts on Saturdays since Friday is my traditional weigh in day. So I’ll be reviewing and planning on Fridays.

Week review
Ran twice. Dieted a bit. Started doing crunches again without ensuing agony.

• Diet like a pop star with a tour date. I bet I can lose those pesky 2 first pounds this week easy.
• On the bike 4 days with a goal of a successful ride to Graton and back.
• Run 3 times – goal is to run until HR sits above 170, then walk then resume. At least one 5K.
• Do Donna’s 30 Days to Upper Body Awesomeness, or whatever its called, twice
• Do crunches – be at the traditional 100 by the end of next week

Today’s Run Time: 30 minutes

12.5R/ 1W/ 14R/ 1W/ 1.5 power run
Time in Target Zone: 17:20
Time above TZ: 11:52
Calories: 444

Oof.

Here’s the deal. I will not have myself professionally photographed at this weight. What’s the point? I’m not going to like the outcome. So I am really going to try to stay focused and make a big difference here this month.

Also, I have a 5K at the end of this month. Which I am not in shape to do with much success, but as I was saying to GG, to have signed up and not even go out and do what I can is pretty much admitting to the utter failure of the last 3 months. Which I am unwilling to do.

So here’s the goals/ plan

SPRING: Weight below 160. Able to run 5K without walking.

• Stay healthy.
• Really really count those calories
• Start doing something that counts as exercise daily- but don’t go overboard and destroy self
• Keep sleeping a lot
• Keep taking echinacea, being a hand sanitizer freak, and try to get over my vitamin phobia

This week I will start doing the stretching and sit-ups during PM & B time (that should surprise the abdominal muscles!). I will really keep track of calories and limit myself to 1600 a day. And I will do something that counts as exercise every day.

Today it was 2 hours of transplanting – with all the attendant shoveling and moving of heavy plants & soil.

Do not let this be another cold. Allergies? A bad night of sleep? A low level possession by undead wolverines?

Not another cold. It just can’t be.