And just like that it's February. I'm actually glad because the past six weeks have been a little crazy between Christmas in Virginia, driving up and back and then going on the cruise. We kind of lucked out a little bit because Merinda's friend Jackie was pretty sick and unable to visit and go on the cruise. Now don't take that as a "we didn't want her to visit, because we did" rather as a "we got a chance to catch our breath" instead. I caught a cold on the cruise, after all it's not a cruise if I don't get sick, and I hate having company when I'm sick.
In terms of fitness, not much changed... I ended up not running all of January and still don't have a replacement bike from Echelon. I had planned to run today, but went for a 35 mile ride outside yesterday, so I'll be walking tonight instead and my new bike is due to arrive tomorrow. Yes, it was six weeks, but due to travel I lost over three weeks due to travel. It really was just bad luck on the timing. C'est la vie, and I think I needed a little break. I ran a lot of 5k's in the Thanksgiving > New Years window, and had been riding like a fiend for the challenge, and it just reminded me that I need to do more recovery and less intense workouts.
So with that, let's talk about what I did during January, as a reminder here were my goals:
- Maintain weight
- Ride 400 miles
- Weekly runs once my hamstring heals.
- January Apple challenge
- Continue weight training
- Continue bootcamp workouts.
- Perfect Month in Apple
- Gold in my January challenge
- All the bonuses in #mc48 and start #mc49
- Stretch... stretch... and stretch....
- Row
Optional:
- Scuba Certification
- Swim 1000 yards twice this month
Weight Results:
- Starting Weight: 218.70
- Ending Weight: 215.80
Exercise Info:
- Number of rides: 15
- Time on exercise: 14:11:31
- Distance on rides: 181.02
- Number of runs: 1
- Distance running: 3.1
- Number of walks: 11
- Time walking: 9:01:07
- Distance walking: 24.98
- Number of rows: 36
- Time rowing: 8:06:46
- Distance Rowing: 73,169.00 meters
- Number of swims: 0
- Distance swimming: 0
- Weight Workouts: 0
Results:
So let's talk about January. I think if I was to best describe it, it would be "when life gives you lemons make lemonade". My spin bike was broken and unavailable, I was injured and needed to rest and overall I was worn out. Add in a vacation and it could have been a disastrous month, but in some ways I'm pretty pleased with myself. My weight was spot on, even with a vacation and a lot of food on that last Sunday and while I didn't get any weight workouts in, I still managed to have a perfect month in Apple, get all the Apple goals, row and walk quite a bit. And, while I missed my "cycling target" for the month, if I take the updated calculations that they use in the distance challenge for running/walking/rowing, I hit 401 miles for the month, and I'll take it as a win.
This isn't to say last month was perfect, I let the weight workouts and stretching slide a bit as I was hyper focused on trying to add to my mileage, and I missed some of the MC49 bonus points, which is ok too. All in all, I enjoyed a month of walking and rowing with a little biking outdoors and on the cruise thrown in there
That's enough of rehashing old news, let's talk about February. Unfortunately I missed the 5k in Safety Harbor I wanted to do, but I wasn't ready to run on Saturday, and forgot all about it, but my bike is supposed to arrive tomorrow so I should get back to some regular spinning, but I don't want to go back to just spin so I'll have to play that by ear, but as of today I think it's going to look like this:
Maintain weight
- Ride 500 miles
- February Apple challenge
- Weekly bootcamp workout(s)
- Perfect Month in Apple
- Gold in my February challenge
- All the bonuses in #mc50
- Weekly Row
- Weekly walk and run
Optional:
- Scuba Certification
- Swim ~1000 yards twice this month
These should look pretty familiar. With the return of the bike I should go back to spin at least 4 days a week. That will leave room for a weekly row, walk and run. I'll take the walk and possibly the run as a recovery day. With this quarters schedule I should be able to pick up some bootcamp classes since there are live classes a few days a week that work with my schedule. Realistically, I'm just trying to get back into a habit. I've been letting myself laze in bed a bit more than I should, and surprisingly I'm happy to get my discipline back.
Other than that, planning on registering for the Dunedin triathalon and trying to find some 5k's to run. Hope you're having a great month and I'll probably provide an update on the bike in a few days...
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