Oh hello old friend Digital Mustard! I know it's been way too long, but since my Cape Cod vacation, describing my activity level as sedentary would be the understatement of the century.
Sometime on Saturday while at a family picnic I was lucky enough to contract a cold that has been kicking my ass since. I cannot catch a break. I stayed home for work on Tuesday, tried to go in today, but had to leave early and this cold is showing no sign of letting up. I really hope I'm better by the weekend, but at this point who knows.
So after feeling particularly sorry for myself and day dreaming about how hopefully my life can get "back on track" after baby is born, I decided that enough was enough. The weather was nice enough so I decided that I was going to go for a walk.
Pathetic I know.
BUT let's put this into perspective. I'm about 30ish weeks pregnant (and carrying about 30 extra pounds). I have a cold. And I haven't worked out innnnn forever. I'm giving myself a pat on the back for even leaving the house.
I figure if I walk at least 1 mile a day this week, and then add a mile next week, and then a third mile the following week and continue to walk those three miles until baby comes, I'll be pretty happy.
I'm unhappy doing nothing and finally today I decided to put my shoes on.
Obviously this was a leisure walk with Dennis and when we faced an uphill and I tried to talk, I was breathing pretty hard. After a bit into the walk I felt ok and I could have gone longer but I didn't want to push anything.
To some, this may be nothing, but to me, I'm really happy I went. No real goal here but to get the miles in. Come January....it will be a whole other story.
Normally when I travel I get giddy and excited about trying out a new Crossfit box (See the listing on the right side of the Blog) and when I visit new boxes, I add another T-Shirt to my collection.
Every year, some girlfriends and I take a mini vacation to our other friend, who's parents have a vacation house on Cape Cod (ironically in the town of Dennis, MA).
I believe last year I tried to visit a box there located in Hyannis, but the owners were on vacation and the box was closed for the time that I visited, no big deal, I just did a couple at home WODs on the beach and looked like a weirdo.
This time there was actually a closer box, Crossfit Phase II fitness that I looked up and noted the class times, and of course planned to go to. Things didn't quite work out as I had planned, but I wasn't a complete lazy bum!
The second day of vacation we took a ferry to Nantucket and decided to rent bikes. We got a decent bike ride in and the trails were not flat. I was really shocked to see how out of shape I was but thinking about it now, I really haven't been doing much of anything for a while.
After about 10 minutes of riding, I was good to go, just had to get over that initial "hump." We guessed our round trip biking adventure was about 12 miles, but do to some app malfunction, we will never know. After we biked we indulged in some local food and drink:
The next day I was pretty sore from the bike ride, so I took it easy on the beach (which by the way, walking on sand with multiple things to carry isn't the easiest task). But we took decent walks on the beach and on our last beach day we took a long walk onto the jetty which took some good balance and a little bit of courage.
Over all it was a low key mini vacation and I didn't make it to a new crossfit box, but, I have to listen to my body (and baby's body too) and TRUST me I am eagerly waiting for January so I can really get back into things.
I hope while I'm on my Crossfit Sabbatical everybody else is killing it!
Since I'm going through something completely new to me physically and emotionally (pregnancy) I didn't know what to expect.
And the timing probably couldn't have been worse. (No offense future baby!).
In the grand scheme of things, I was just getting my feet wet with Crossfit, morphing from a beginner to a slightly more experienced fitter, and with my running goal so close in sight, and not to mention my body finally 90% beach ready, it all came to a halt.
Pregnancy is brutal!
Overall, it hasn't been horrible, it's just a completely different animal and part of me is scared of what I'm becoming during it.
Instead of getting up at 5:30 in the morning to either WOD or run, I'm snoozing as late as possible before having to get up to work and instead of rushing out of work to get to the 5pm WOD, I'm rushing home so I can get to bed.
Instead of making sure my meals are paleo friendly, I'm eating pretty healthy, but not feeling guilty if I don't.
Each day hoping to see my weight go down, I'm getting bigger and feeling more and more gross about how I look. It's mentally devastating.
Yes I could still be hard core dieting or working out, but it was challenging enough when I was not pregnant, and growing a baby adds a whole new level to it.
So with only a few months left, I'm really hoping that after baby is here, I make it a priority to get right back to it and pick off not right where I left off, but to start off slow and make my way back. I'm hoping for a January start. Crossfit and Running.
Curious as to when I started my running training, I went to my Digital Mustard facebook page and read through all my posts. And I almost lost it. Was that really me? I was obsessed and more importantly, I was working so hard!
Immediately I felt so happy that I, even though I didn't know I was doing it, was documenting how I felt about doing great on a WOD, terrible on a WOD, running, eating, and balancing my life with these new things.
I saw some posts about keeping things honest about not doing something as well as I should, or not being able to make it to a WOD. I guess as the manager of the page I didn't really look back on what I posted, but today I did, and I have to really pat myself on the back.
All those times that I thought I wasn't doing good enough or felt like what I was doing wasn't enough I wish I looked back at my posts about all the accomplishments I was proud enough to post about.
It helped me realize how far I had come from where I started and even though I'm down and out right now, I know that with a lot of work, I can get back to where I was (even with a little baby!).
So to Karen past, thank you for being who you were and all the posts and blogs you wrote, it was fun going back to the beginning and reliving all those moments, good and bad.
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