I just realized I didn’t share here that I recently started dog sitting with @roverdotcom! I’ve had clients the past 2 weekends and I’ve loved it. It’s a pretty simple way to make money and multitask and HELLO I love dogs! I have some Rover discount codes or could share my page if your are in the Northern VA/DC area and want me to dog sit/walk!
I’ve earned 63 fit points thus far today from going to Body combat and Body pump this morning, walking the dogs that I’m sitting for, and 7.1 miles in my last urban hiking class.
Facilitating my recovery with water, Powerade zero and chocolate milk. Chocolate milk is a perfect recovery drink and beer is also good too, I shall also have pumpkin beer later!
Beautiful day for a 4.5 mile hike with my class yesterday! I can’t believe next week is already our last class!
Great hike with my class in an urban environment today! Embassy row to Dupont Circle!
Lunch break: walking on the treadmill for 30 minutes in this dreary weather.
Week 2 of Urban Hiking. Lovely little 4.75 miler!
Not a bad way to start my morning! I was invited to hike with another group on campus today and it was lovely! I haven’t done a pre-work workout in a whiiiiile!
First Urban Hiking class of the semester! I have the absolute privilege of teaching a Health and Fitness class through the College of Arts & Sciences called Urban Hiking. I taught it in the Spring Semester and it was pretty much my favorite thing ever! It was great to meet my class today and look forward to getting to know them over our 5 Saturdays today – hopefully we’ll have better weather going forward!
Bonus shot out to my friend and former grad student who I recommended to teach the 2nd section the department decided to offer this semester since it’s been so popular!
This is a picture of me right now. Seriously.
I want to share the good and the bad here. I’ve put on 10 lbs since 7/27 and almost left Body Combat in the middle of class because I could FEEL those 10 lbs jiggling on my body making everything seem so much harder. I finished out the class and I’m glad I did. Thankfully my busiest season of work officially wraps up on Friday after an especially grueling Sun-Tues this week.
I know I will get back in the groove now that vacation, Birthday, and final push of a busy work season are behind me, but I still feel like a failure. Like I caught a beautiful butterfly that I lost time and time again and swore I wouldn’t let it getaway, but then I did. I know weight loss and fitness is a series of falling down and getting back up. I’m just wallowing in the moment and I thought it was important to share my human imperfection because it’s real.
#failure #human #weightlossjourney #fitnessjourney #real #recovery #selfcare #balance #alignment
4-day workweek is a success, New Zealand experiment finds
I’m soooooo close to securing a 4 day work week for the fall to balance out the 6 days a week I was working this summer (and still have 12 straight days of work at the end of August) which will lead to 130 “overtime” hours required (this doesn’t including staying late to work on projects, this is expected/required time above and beyond my salary). Hope to know for sure next month.