get fit again

managed to have breakfast, good lunch and good dinner yesterday, and breakfast today, so that is a huge improvemnet, even managed to get 6 hours of sleep last night, so that is also better.

ate pretty well today. went for jacket potato over sausage rolls for lunch. bit more expensive, but healthier. got a free roast dinner so that was cool. Fluid intake not too bad, but still feel really thirsty, so probably need to drink more. Also had good breakfast, and wasn’t late for uni so had time to eat. Feeling much better as a result. Have to make sure get plenty of sleep now.

dog walking this weekend and ate a bit better diet. Still need to drink more, eat less sugar, and try and get some proper sleep, then all will be well. Been eating nuts this week instead of other junk food so thats an improvement.

gosh, well i have put a huge amount of weight on since starting med school this term. Also had swine flu, so that has pretty much scuppered things on the fitness side. Definitely need to get fit, have to work on my diet most importantly as I have runnig late in the mornings and missing breakfast, then not having time for lunch, and then eating dinner late and getting loads of headaches from not eating or drinking properly. I think this is why my weight has gone up so much, as I do run around enough in the day not to gain so much weight. If I get a place to go to the Himalayas, then I will seriously have to start training and getting fitter. I tried to run home from med school last week but had some pain and thought my achilles might start to be an issue, plus have been getting lots of night cramps in my calf muscles which is making me tired. Physical wreck, but hopefully once I trim up a bit, it will get better. Also off to see Neurologist to get some nerve conduction tests done.

We didn’t bike as far as we first planned due to a little mishap. Have you ever biked on a slope of pavement, with a sharp curve and with a fine layer of silt across it? If you haven’t then I do forewarn you…. Slow Down. I went off the edge of the pavement, slid off rather, hit the edge going 14.6 mph, which doesn’t seem like much until you hit that silt and feel the slip and all that you can get through your mind before you bite the ground is “how much is this going to hurt?”.

I went face first flying through the weeds taking the brunt of the blow with my chin, wrapping it up with my shins being beaten to death on the bike. I’ve got to say, considering the wipe out I faired pretty well. However as I layed, telling the friend “give me a moment” I thought a lot of bad words and was mentally going over my body to see if anything was long term damage, then began spitting out the grass.

Once I stood and said “Now that’s going to leave a mark.” she then began to laugh. Not the little are you ok that made my nerves go spastic kind of nervous laugh.. no this was the full out OMG you crashed and didn’t die and now I can laugh my butt off at you. I told her thank you..I appreciated the moral support and we would see who was laughing the next time when I came out in full protection padding head to toe with a chin guard. Who would be the safe one then?

That all being said I did bike a great 19 mile run with decent time. Now back to icing down my chin, cheek, shins and shoulder.

I did cancel biking with the friend. She and I had a lot to do and she acted relieved. I hope that was really the case. I did run/walk on the treadmill pushing myself to increase my speed. I could run at the higher speed for a minute at a time. No where near where I used to be, but it’s progress.

Today I am biking with her. She wants to do 26 miles. I am thankful I have her in my life because alone at this point 26 miles is too much to even think on. It’s overwhelming. What’s sad is I used to bike a 40+ without much thought. Biking is much much easier than running though so I have to keep that in mind. She hates to run and her knees really can’t handle it, so in that I am alone. I always preferred running alone anyway. I just am worried I won’t keep up with it alone.

not wanting to accept it. Back in late May I ended up sick, sort of a body acting up sort of thing. It’s happened periodically in my life. I was put on meds for approximately a month. After that I was drained from most of my energy and strength. I stopped being involved with little false starts now and then.

Not only the lack of energy was the resulting side effect but weight gain. I have lacked the will to go after it again. So now finally here I am, officially restarting what I lost. Yesterday I biked 17 miles. Today I ran/walked 5 miles. It took everything in me to do both. I wanted to stay home and do nothing. I wanted to just go back to bed and sleep more. My energy level has yet to return and I hope as time moves on it will return and it won’t be by sheer willpower that I get going.I fear as time goes on that will power alone won’t be enough again.

Each day is a battle within myself to get out there and participate. I had got to the point I was shutting everything and everyone out in the process. I know how unhealthy that is. I just didn’t want to deal with anyone or anything I was so tired. Over the past month though it’s been like an engine that can’t start, but is trying to turn over. You can hear the starter, but not the purr of the engine. The last few days you can hear it kick over but fall right after the start. With a little more time I hope the engine fires off again and stays humming. I’m tired but I know sleeping isn’t the solution. It’s the escape and as we all know sometimes escaping isn’t the answer.

just completed and came first in the mountain navigation challenge, more by default than by fitness!! Still feel very unfit, so need to work on it. Hoping to practie for my bleep test all week, ready for navy assessment next week.

did a 4 mile walk/run yesterday, bit sore today, but done some stretching and sit ups/press ups. run again tomorrow. diet very good today, no chocolate which is great. have two weeks to get fit for my assessment, and have a mountain marathon at the weekend. hope to tone up a bit and get back to my old levels of fitness.

plan to do a military fitness class tomorrow and go for a run after.