What are your health / fitness goals? Accountability

Yesterday was rest day and today will be a 30 minute total body hiit workout. I have until June 15th to learn advanced choreo to a new song. I really hope that I can get it all done by the deadline!
Today is the 5th year anniversary of moving to Hawaii with my bf and buying this property. I feel so thankful for this time and the ways that I have grown as a person. This is the longest that we've stayed in one place (not including growing up in our home towns.)

Hope you will all have a wonderful weekend!

 

SIL #1 choked me out this morning in class. In my defense he got mount to start but ouch, nasty choke! I’m running my short run and then my garage run (grinders as we called them) 4 days a week or so. What’s satisfying is often my gas tank is perfectly fine and my opponent is huffing and puffing. Of course my cardio work is my little secret, lol.

 

Ouch, but it's great that you're making it to morning classes again! You have such a great thing going with your runs and drills. Keep it up! It sounds like it's paying off!

 

I feel super unmotivated today, but it's nothing a cup of coffee can't fix!

 

My workout went well! It was a total body strength workout.
I finished reading "Wellness" by Nathan Hill last night and I'm happy that it's done. I had high hopes for it because I loved "The Nix" which was a historical fiction, but this one really fell flat. It's about the crumbling marriage of a couple who believed it was "love at first sight" in college. Lots of cliches and it made me feel glad that I'm off of social media, but other than that, I gave it 2 stars.

Currently reading:

• "The Winner" by Teddy Wayne It's an adult fiction / thriller. I liked the way the cover looked and wanted some light, easy reading. It's about a pro tennis teacher who spends a summer in a rich neighborhood teaching tennis lessons while he studies for his bar exam to become a lawyer. A total love triangle kind of book. It's alright. Lol.
• "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in one-click America" by Alec MacGillis I was craving some good investigative journalism. So far this seems to be delivering. An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. I wonder if this will be similar to the book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty First Century" by Jessica Bruder. I read it a few years ago and it was really good and eye opening.

What are you currently reading or listening to?

 

Have you read the Peter Attia book "Outlive"?

 

I started "Outlive" a little while ago and then my rental expired. I'm going to read it start to finish this summer. Thank you for suggesting it!

 

I don't like close-up pictures, but I do love the glow I get from a good workout! I stopped wearing makeup 4 years ago and I think it's been really good for my skin.

Glow by Alanaana posted Jun 4, 2024 at 15:44

 

Struggling with motivation to work out a lot this week. I did Monday and Tuesday's workouts, but haven't since then. I think the heat is a bit draining and we've been shoveling a lot of soil and cinder around the property, lately. This place is covered in beans and peppers.

 

In Ketchikan I ran 3 out of 4 mornings, about the same distance I normally run. The first morning my daughter chewed me out for not waiting so, I got to run twice. (I raised them tough, I don’t argue. Lol.) The new kicks are nice, I should have upgraded long ago.

 

VICTORY!! In the 4 months since that extremely large (calling it huge might have been an understatement) Red Oak tree fell in our yard, we have cut and stacked, and cut and burned, and burned, and then burned some more! Had to use the tractor to move Some of the Big stuff, but Most was Too Big for the tractor, and the chainsaw is on its second bar and third chain! Did I mention that it has been a very wet spring? Well, it has been rather damp and rainy, but we persevered and today, the Eighth of June in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four we prevailed, and the tree is no more! This tree was most likely 200 years old and had seen a lot of local history, it was around at the dawn of the 19th Century when Indians walked this land and called it theirs, when Andy Jackson and his men went down to New Orleans, when a young Abe Lincoln traveled north on the Natchez Trace, it saw Confederate and Yankee troops pass-by, and it provided shade to the people, white and black, that worked the land. Shortly after the beginning of the 20th Century, my Great-grandparents purchased the land, back when horseless carriages and airplanes were new, and the tree provided shade for them and their growing family. They ran electric power down the road and then they paved the road. Six generations of my family has been a part of this land, just like that tree, and we're gonna miss it!

 

@Wildbilly Congratulations!!! This is a major victory for sure and sounds like it was an incredible amount of work. You are such a good storyteller. I don't think I'll look at trees the same way now. I have a new appreciation for their stories. Thank you for sharing this with us!

 

@Meat Great job on your runs! I hope you got to enjoy some nice cool weather in Ketchikan. It is so hot here right now.

 

Have you got a metal detector? Maybe old Abe dropped a coin....


I'm down 60 pounds and still working the plan. I'm getting rid of almost all my stuff to sell when I retire and sell the place and that's been a chore.
There's 5 generations of stuff spread across seven storage buildings on the farm. Farms accumulate stuff plus my family seems to have the hoarder gene. I have found more odd things than I can post. Tune up kit for a '39 Ford? Got it. Magneto for a '47 Massey Harris? Got it. Compass and sextant for a B-29 Stratofortress? Got it. 250 pound dummy bomb for target ranges? Got it.... Confederate Gold? Still looking

 

Read a book about the Knights of the Golden Circle, the James and Younger brothers and the Confederate Gold (aka the Last Chance Gold). There were also some TV shows on the "History Channel", one followed the Knights of the Golden Circle and the cryptic clues they left behind (maps, writings, and coded messages) and the other had the Oak Island boys in Georgia on the trail of some thieving Yankee scum that made off with the gold after the War. The Yankee Government claims the gold, but you, me and everyone else knows that is BS, because it's finders' keepers and the best the Feds can hope for is that we don't re-ignite the War!
PS Are you sure you want to sell land that has been in your family so long? I've got about 10 acres of the original family farm and I'm not likely to acquire any more. I've always felt that I was just the current caretaker and was to pass the land on to the next generation.

 

My kids don't want to live there as they have built their own lives and assets.

The worst part is urban sprawl have overtaken my little village of 90 people when I graduated high school and filled it with rich big city trash complaining about tractors, cows and gunfire to the tune of about 2000 complainers.

In six years when I retire, the value will be 20 fold what it was when I took the farm over and I will be surrounded with subdivisions and apartment complexes.

 

Last week I did 3 strength training workouts. Yesterday I did a total body workout and today will be a 30 minute upper body workout. I got much better results when I was doing the high volume training, but I like the fact that my workouts aren't taking 3 hours. I hope that I'll settle somewhere in between...
I decided to abandon the advanced choreo dance challenge. I did all of the classes and submitted 5 videos of me practicing the techniques. All that's left is to learn the final choreo and record it, but it's been hard for me to get myself to practice it. I don't really like the song. It's not impossible, but it was causing me stress so I'm choosing peace. Lol.
This week's focus is on fundamentals and I'm enjoying it.

 

I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and will blow the diet with fresh seafood and maple syrup but get in some great daily hiking.

I got here with discipline and I'll get back to it in short order on my return.

 

@Zimmy I hope you'll have a lot of fun on vacation and will enjoy lots of good food and fresh air. Seafood and maple syrup And hiking all sounds heavenly! Enjoy!

 

I feel like I'm starting to get my groove back and am feeling a lot better. A few days ago I was sobbing because I gained a few pounds and was stressed about stressing and worried about my cortisol levels. Stressing about stressing is NOT a way to lower cortisol levels... Lol. Thank goodness my bf is so sweet and supportive and reminded me of all the progress that I've made through the years. I'm so hard on myself and have been very critical, lately, but when I hear about all the complications that my dad has (dialysis 4 times a week, losing limbs, etc.); it scares me and I worry that I'm not making progress quickly enough. My bf thinks we need more adventure... He's probably right.
Yesterday I did a challenging leg day workout and then I shoveled 35 five gallon buckets of soil into the garden area. So far I've collected 80 5 gallon buckets. I always feel so much better when I stay busy and productive. Today is rest day, but I'll probably shovel more buckets... Just because.