New Year...Same Old Me

Key word on the title is old. I'm a 51 year old male who has had a active lifestyle most of my life. I was always out doing something. Always moving. I'm not a athlete. I'd say in my younger days I was a wanna be jock. I never participated in organized sports. I had anxiety and I found it uncomfortable to play sports around people. In my mind I was going to be the greatest baseball player or football quarterback ever. I was all talk no action. I was nothing more than a clumsy and uncoordinated baseball player and my mom refused to let me play football as she thought my small stature would get me slaughtered on the football field. 

Last year I got lazy, very lazy. I was running pretty consistently since 2008. I peaked at almost 800 running miles one year. Last year I ran 211 miles. That's it! I was pretty disappointed in myself. I did however lift more weights and play more golf. I'm exploring playing pickleball. I'm getting older. I'm a step slower and a few pounds overweight. 

I feel good despite my aches and pains associated with getting older. 

This year instead of writing my exercise activities on paper, I'm going to blog about it. 

Yesterday was January 1st. I had a wee too much to drink celebrating the new year, so I didn't do anything other than my physical work around the store. I hit my steps goal of 15,000. I actually exceeded it. So I did do some exercise.

Today, January 2nd, I did three workouts. One at midnight at my gym. I did the stationary bike, the stair stepper, and the treadmill. I just walked at a 1 percent incline. My second workout was lifting weights for twenty minutes just before dinner.

After dinner I went back to the gym to ride the stationary bike and read a book, walked/ran for forty minutes on the treadmill with no incline. To get back in the swing of things running wise, I ran for four minute increments, then walked for four minutes until I get to forty minutes. That gives me 1.25 miles running to start the year. I'm 210 miles to beating last year. My goal this year isn't a big number. I'm just trying for a mile a day average of 365 miles. That's realistic. My long distance running days are over. If I can get to 400 miles, than that's great. If not, 365 is just fine. 

I recovered with a Gatorade Hydration drink. Think I'm gonna make some chamomile tea and go to bed. Tomorrow is my "Sunday", and I have a lot to do before the work week starts on Thursday for me. 

Until tomorrow,

Me