Sorry about no update yesterday. The day job has been hectic in a really good way.
Earlier this week, I spent two days writing about running and running shoes, and I’ve manged to get two of my toes infected…which means I won’t be running for quite a while. Last weekend while my friends were in town, I walked through an ant pile down at our pool. While my friend Sarah was busy saying, “oh they won’t bother anybody,” the ants were busy attacking my feet with the firey passion of a thousand suns (I don’t know what that means, but it sounds like a lot). They bit a few of my toes which then swelled up like crazy. Being an idiot, I wore sneakers all day on Saturday while helping out at Pet-a-palooza – think music festival except with way more dog poop than normal – which gave me crazy blisters, which then became infected over the past two days. AWESOME.
Now that I’m back from Augusta, I plan on heading to that pool tomorrow afternoon and absolutely GOING TO TOWN on that ant hill with a big-ass can of Raid. I will end them. Ants aside, I’m realizing that I’m going to have to get creative if I’m going to stay on my fitness routine. Being out of town for four days, not sleeping much, eating sporadically, and not being able to wear shoes has certainly thrown a wrench in my workout. As I’ve stated in a previous blog, it’s important to find a way to get exercise in there even if it it has to be in an unconventional way. I won’t be able to run for probably two weeks, so I’m going to have to find other ways to get cardio.
Here are some thoughts: Split up my workouts so I hit up the gym more often – five days a week instead of three days a week- and supercharge my workouts (minimal rest between sets, lots of supersets, etc.) so I get an aerobic workout too while lifting weights. Also, I’m thinking of maybe swimming to get my heart race pumping without needing to use these feet! Other options would be to do a boot camp style thing in my house in the morning without shoes on, maybe running in place, jumping rope, jumping jacks, etc. etc. etc.
It’s a setback, but it’s no excuse to start slacking and take some days off. I’ll find a way around it, because I know that I need to stay on track. I’m very close to hitting my goal weight, and I only have ten more days to get there.
Stay on target!
-Steve
