Well, after being “rejected” by Women’s Health magazine, I decided it was onwards and upwards and time to push on without them. I think part of me was hoping to gain a cult following…hahaha…but I was truly disappointed that running 125km over 3 mountains to raise funds for charity was of no interest to them. It was time to make this venture interesting.
I emailed The Lung Foundation of Australia with an outline of my plans and they were immediately on board. Of course they would be as I want to give them money, but they did sound genuinely interested as opposed to “yawn, boring, not enough room for your idea”. I’ve had to sign all a fundraising agreement, protects both of us I guess!! Whenever I feel like I am laboring under my training, I will be able to think about all those people that labour just to breathe and I will know my efforts are worthwhile!!
After walking FD#1 this morning, I wanted to back the day up with something other than running. I recently purchased a 2nd hand home gym and am stoked about it. The local gym is offering a 3 month membership for $150, that’s what I paid for my gym. I can use mine whenever I want! I know I may not have any company, but I can play my own music, as loudly as I want and I can plaster pictures of the Death Race trail all around me as inspiration. The added bonus tonight is that I went to the gym with my ugg boots on and a nice cup of peppermint tea. It was getting pretty cold outside at 6pm!
I’ve decided to work on long and lean muscles. I just want my body to be a bit stronger to carry me for the 24hours (hopefully less than that). So I am focusing on lighter weights and lots of reps. My right leg has been aching a little around the knee, nothing major but I want to keep it to nothing major, so I only did the upper body. The only downside with a one-size-fits-all gym (which it doesn’t!) is that for me to do leg extensions and quad exercises on this gym, my body proportion is wrong. I am not overly tall, or short at 167cm…but I have a longer body and shorter legs so my leg length is too short to fit the leg exercising part of the gym. It isn’t too bad, it only means I can’t do two exercises; but I can do other cable exercises with the legs. I figure my legs will be getting plenty of working out, so I’m not too bothered. MGirl has the opposite problem; at 173cm, her legs are too long to fit that part of the one-size-fits-all gym! The convenience of having the gym at home well outweighs the drawback of the machine not being too adjustable for size.
After about 30 minutes on the gym, with the FD#1 and FD#2 running rings around me and playing the whole time, I headed inside to tackle the Wii! I’d purchased a Wii some time ago, and the kids bought me a Wii Fit for Mother’s Day. With the renovations going on at home, and most clear spaces being used for storage, it had been pointless to set it up. Last weekend I’d managed to clean out the theatre room and now had space. It isn’t as posh as it sounds, theatre room…it used to be my bedroom. I got selfish and decided to turn the sunken lounge into my bedroom and my bedroom into the theatre room. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but me, and now I have this lovely roomy and light bedroom…I love it!
So, with Wii poised and space a plenty I began. Following all the steps is really time consuming (read - slow) and after nearly 30 minutes on the thing I’d only accrued 10 actual minutes exercise time into my “piggy bank”! And what’s more it told me I had the fitness age of a 48 year old (I’m only 42…43 in 3 weeks)! What the hell does it know anyway? It determined this after I entered my height, and it weighed me and I balanced for a minute! Of course my balance will be rubbish…especially on the Wii board! The only good thing is that it told me I had a BMI of about 24%. After I turned it off I realised at least it has given me a starting point. While I don’t intend to use it a lot, maybe for the yoga poses for stretching a couple of times a week, at least I will dazzle it with my improvement in my fitness away from the Wii! Here’s hoping anyway.
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