Birthday Tuesday

So it's 3:45pm, I am about to leave my office for the day, and in the spirit of accountability, I will say I didn't totally suck today. woo.

Last night I had a semi-healthy turkey sandwich for dinner, and got 7 hours of sleep. I think that is pretty realistic for most adults, lets not add that it wasn't 7.5 hours because I chose to stay up and watch the House series finale.


Today, Tuesday. Birthday's galore. My most favorite sister-in-law (or really sister overall) Penny and my beloved Peaches both celebrate their birthdays today, 21 years apart. The husband made the suggestion that since our poor dog is now middle aged, we should do something nice and take her on a real walk after work, oh yeah... and frosty paws, ice cream for dogs.

I really wanted to, and meant to go to the gym at lunch today for a short 3 mile run and maybe some biking, except... I decided not to. I was disciplined, ate my breakfast, lunch, and snacks from home, and didn't do anything dumb to sabotage my plan or accountability.

I still went to 6am crossfit, I didn't totally suck, I didn't die (this is actually a major accomplishment) and hopefully with a 3 mile walk tonight, I won't feel so crappy about skipping my run/bike today.

6am crossfit is really the problem with my running/biking/gym-going. I love 6am crossfit, but it means that my other workouts get pushed to the afternoons, and I find it much easier to justify skipping those than crossfit. I think the obvious answer here is to move to afternoon crossfit. There is a 4:30 class everyday, and I can always do a 6am if I really need to do something after work. I know I will make myself go to crossfit in the afternoons vs. the gym in the afternoons because I pay for crossfit. I guess I pay for the gym too, but not nearly as much as crossfit costs, so I don't really think about it.

This week doesn't really support me going to afternoon crossfit, maybe tomorrow... maybe. but with wedding events Wednesday night - Saturday, 6am crossfit will be it for the week. Also, the instructors at crossfit switch schedules again in another week, and after putting in a solid month with the one, I was looking forward to switching it up, so we'll see if maybe I can just motivate myself to work out at lunch/ after work. I almost feel like I need a running buddy to get my into a routine of afternoon runs, but my favorite running buddy is all knocked up, and at some point, a growing baby and 100* heat will not let her run with me anymore.

I don't really have any interest in going back to my old running group, I really did like the people. But if you weren't trying to run longer, and longer and longer, they really didn't offer that much for you to keep up with. I can run my own track workouts, and build my own schedule, I just think the offerings of this group weren't meeting my needs right now.


So here's to the rest of the day: not eating like crap, having a healthy calorie controlled dinner with something that is already in my refridgerator, getting some sleep, and getting in ALL of my workouts tomorrow.