Well, since I last posted, some things sort of exploded; namely me. I had one of the worst days I have had on Thanksgiving, and it has taken me a while to get my head back into things. Take one part overworked, one part family stress, one part workout fatigue, and throw in too much Rum, and things can go south quickly. I won't go into details, but wasn't that much fun. The first part of the day; great. The second part not so much.
Anyway I won't linger on that too much. The details are unimportant, the ones that are important are that I learned quite a bit about myself, and about those things in your life that follow you around, even when you want to forget about them.
I still am training regularly, and just set up a nice space in my apartment for those days it's too cold/nasty to want to venture out. I am looking for a weight set to round it out; anyone have any weights they want to get rid of? Now that I have a good space in my house, I think it'll help keep me sane, especially through the Holidays.
I am wavering a bit on whether to push myself on my vacation or not, and run 80 miles, ride 100, and do 5 days weight of weight training in 9 days or not. Physically it won't be that difficult, I'm just wondering if I need the mental break more than I need to see how far I can push myself. One thing I hadn't realized, is how much mental focus it takes to maintain a fairly strict workout regimen. I had been so out of shape, the physical part was always the part that took the most of out of me. Now, I don't get as sore, or as fatigued, and I recover quicker. Mentally though, some days after 10 hours at work, I don't want to do shit, and I know I still have to run, use an elliptical do some weights, something. This ends up being kind of draining, but it's a good way to exercise the mind too I suppose.
So, fuck the Holidays, well not really, Christa and I are going to have Christmas at our house this year, and I am looking forward to having a tree and not being a scrooge. Usually I hate Christmas, seems like a pretty made-up, pointless holiday made stressful by spending/eating too much and it's too close to Thanksgiving. How much family and food can you really handle in such a short time?
Now that I have learned a couple things, I am going to take it easy (easier) for the next three weeks or so until Christmas is done, and try to balance the mental and the physical, and get through this Holiday season without another Grahampage. I leave you with a song, for no other reason than I have been listening to them, and so should you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBcbDS5AGnk&feature=fvst
