Just Another Manic Monday

Mobile Phone Alarm set for 530am – must get up early to get everyone and everything ready so we can head off early for the first day of Grade 1.....

A child laughing in the neighbourhood wakes me – I check my phone – DEAD BATTERY – I check my watch – Sh*t!!!  It’s 645am!!

The first day of school for the year is a BIG deal – we live 15-20mins from school and together with traffic, road works and the first day school car-parking nightmare –we must leave early or we’ll be parked 3km away from the front gate!!  (personally I think that’s a great calorie burning opportunity, but dragging 2 young children along for the ride is not my idea of fun!!)

Stay calm, rational, we can do this.  Come on kids let’s get moving!!

Ps we got there in plenty of time – no need to panic – and I didn’t – that’s a win for me!!

Body Attack class diarised for 915am

9am - Still at school – Sh*t!!  We’ll be pushing it!! Let’s get moving, we can make it!!......

Oh no we can’t – missed the start of the class.  So my mind immediately thinks “I’ll get my wee girl from the Crèche and get going home – I’ve missed my class so that’s game over”.  Then it was like a little someone tapped me on the shoulder (or slapped me across the face) and said “Ummm Kate... you’re in a GYM!! There is equipment everywhere!!  Go attack some machines and do your workout!!”

So off I set –last week in Body Attack I smashed 643cal in 1hour – let’s see how many I can smash on my own in the same time.  Funny thing is I didn’t really have a goal, I was disappointed that I missed my class so  I thought I’d just do an hour and see how far I got – 20min max on machines in peak periods,  so let’s go 20min Bike, 20min Treadmill, 20min Cross Trainer – I can do that. 

Well my 20min on the bike saw me ride 5kms – almost exactly.  So I thought – I could go 2.5km on the treadmill then 2.5 on the Cross Trainer and make 10km in one hour!! All of a sudden I had a goal.  So Treadmill was next, I managed 2.7km in the 20mins – Great – I’m ahead of target, let’s bring it home on the cross trainer..... I tried – I did my best but I only managed 1.3km in the 20min (should have seen me sprinting in the last 2 min to bring it up to that!!)  So 9km in 60min – Not too bad, but I’m not there yet.  A quick check of my Heart rate monitor saw me at around the 600cal mark.  Ok so now I had a new goal – to reach 10km for the morning and to smash the 643cal I would have burned if I made it to the class.  So back to the bike for my last km (a cop out I must admit because it was easier than the Cross Trainer).  So after another few minutes to ride my way up to a 10km total and a cool down and stretch I managed 10km and 666cal burned in 1hr12mins.

I was so proud of myself – I was willing to walk away but I turned things around and had a win. 

So on the back of this win I decided to set myself another goal – to burn 1000cal today.  I booked in for a boot camp session this afternoon – all I needed was 334cal and I’d reach my target.....

Just another session at the gym!!

It’d been raining on and off all day and I was worried that boot camp would be cancelled..... and what do you know...... it was!!

So what to do now???.....A fellow blogger and my 12WBT buddy Leah gave me some inspiration at school pick up this afternoon "just run up and down some hills" she said, with a laugh.... Oh but that gave me a great idea!!

So some hills it was - 4.5km run (well lets face it some of it was walking - hills are hard) up and down the hills of Tanah Merah and up and down my In-Law's driveway - Killer!! So I knocked off another 365cal!!

1031cal burned for today!! I never gave up - I was going to win this challenge!!

Life is not always going to let me have my way – I won’t always be able to make the class, Boot camp will get rained out – but I do have the ability to get a good workout in off my own back and set myself challenges and not stop until I reach my goals!!

There is nothing more empowering than setting a goal and achieving it!! So there couldn’t be a better time for me for Michelle to announce the 3^rd preseason Task: Take Control – Set your Goal” which I will complete on my “Pre season Tasks” Page.'

 

The drive way at my In-Law's house!!

The bottom of the street....  

Another Hill to conquer before getting home!

 Powering up the driveway

Heading back down for yet another lap

Today saw positive change coming from positive energy!! Bring on Tomorrow!!

Ps All photos featuring me on this blog have been (and probably will continue to be) taken by my Official Blog Photographer - pictured below.