Yesterday was a momentous event in a certain way. I missed making a blog post for the first time since I started this little project. I've had a couple days where I put in a placeholder post to acknowledge I lacked time or thoughts for that day,but yesterday I just didn't post.
I hope my ones of readers survived...
The reason was simple. Both my kids had friends for an overnight and we took them to the YMCA to swim fairly late at night, and then the 3 hour process of trying to get them to bed ended after 11:00, so my momentum was gone.
Exercise update: When we took the kids swimming last night, I was able to get my 30 minutes of pool workout in. I feel better each time in the pool, but I will never be a good swimmer. As I've said before, I just want to get to a point where I don't waste all my energy in a triathlon completing the swim. And of course, by next summer, I want to be able to swim the .9 miles in an Olympic tri.
I'm proud to say I've made all my workouts this week so far. Today is a rest day, so Jake and I just walked for 70 minutes. Saturday is the first brick (bike/run workout) in my triathlon plan.
Nutrition update: The big news yesterday was a trip to Culver's for a burger and fries. Seemed logical at the time, but shortly afterward the silliness of differentiating it from McDeath became apparent.
I feel some slippage in my dietary discipline since my exercise has increased. I'm trying to be more mindful for a while. I took today off from work, so I've got a three day weekend to focus on healthy eating. I seem to mostly have calories under control, so now I need to think about ways to improve the quality of what I eat.
I'm hoping to go for special wood-fired pizza at a place near Fountain City tonight, so it's a good challenge to make that fit and be reasonable.
Random musing: Only one thought today. I had a little time at work yesterday and went web-surfing to see how I could strengthen my certification as a reading teacher for future possible teaching opportunities at my college. As regular readers know, one of my fantasies is to get back to the classroom (in my own department, I think K-12 is gone for me) to: 1. Have a more direct impact 2. Have more time off (to be honest).
It was interesting. I knew right where to find the classes and I'd need about 4 classes to be pretty highly qualified. They are available online, at a reasonable cost, and the application is short and expedited. Even with all that, my emotional reaction was "ehhh..."
I didn't do anything with it that day and I'm trying to sort out what my lack of enthusiasm means.
Enjoy your weekend.
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