27.5.26 - 141 - Last few days
Well, I haven't been idle.
Let's start with base camp shall we?
I took 2 days off - although I didn't run AND swim I did swim and/or walked to AMK to MacDonalds a fact I'm not proud of, but I didn't buy anything there. Just accompanied Oisin.
I did start running and swimming again yesterday. I feel better than I have health wise. I did spend most of last month running and swimming and have much to be happy about. The next stage now is the first stage of the summit. I will do that in three phases, all lasting a month.
June - Summit Phase 1 - After the base camp phase, this will be about building on the fitness foundations which have been laid down. I cannot stress how important all this is because I am hoping that this is the last time I am ever going to have to do this. In my mind I see that after I have summitted, say around the end of August, I will just keep going to maintain it - it isn't so much a mountain as a plateau. And all of this is in honour of making sure that I am going to be able to go into my old age as a fit and healthy person. I don't care if I die tomorrow, but I will be damned if I end up being dependent on someone and hopefully I will die before I have dementia. I can't imagine anything worse. Maybe I won't have to imagine it. In any case, it is what this time is for. I have needed it. It was getting out of hand the lack of fitness. I see here I needed to have lost 8 kg. I don't know if I have lost 8 kg, but I do think I have lost like 4 kg. Something.
Anyway, Summit Phase I lasts till the end of June. Distinguished from the previous month by continuing the exercising but this time the running, swimming and stretching feel easier. I also will increase my stretching, extend my sit ups to 120 SUs and add a couple more laps to the swim by the end of this. But the main defining characteristic is ease with which I will feel the routine I have created is going well. So that's Summit I
This is month 2, May having been month 1.
July: Summit II - This is half way up the mountain. I will have a look at it, but i think it will be increasing the running a little. I don't know where the run will take me, but hopefully this will then be my established route. It may even be adding like ten more rounds at the park. I will have stabilised my stretching and swimming routine to something like 120 sit ups, a good number of squats and stretches and say around 15 to 16 laps swimming. I do not know what this looks like, but body wise, it will be feeling toned and almost at my desired weight.
August: Summit III - By the end of the month, I will have arrived at the plateau where I will be making sure that I have a routine which I can continue. After this, my health will be priority. It has always been priority but maybe not as important as I thought it would have been. I will be fit and strong. I will feel that I can now manage and whatever routine I'm on, I can cut back by 20% so that it is no longer trying to push my body, but maintain it.
This last month as shown me that it is never too late to start exercising again. Never. That if you put in the work, the body responds.
So that has been my fitness journey.
I have been cleaning the house and making sure that everything's slowly getting done. Even on days I didn't run, we were taking out the front room. Now all of Ma's clothes have been put away and the next few days will be bag day. This next phase of the house cleaning will be making the front room liveable. I will bring my bed in there and probably not use air conditioning. But that will be cleaning the house and I MUST do my finances this week, I have literally no choice about it.
I have set out my stall for the week. But really, thinking about it, the most important things for me are my running and for Ma to be alright. Sons.
Then writing and drawing. Finances. Houses.
Friends, responsibilities
Thereafter everything else is interchangeable.
So that has been the last few days.
Doing the house, swimming, preparing for Pa's birthday.
Everyday goes by so swiftly. In contrast to when I was injured and couldn't do anything - then everyday was nightmarishly long. I'd look at the clock and it would only be like 730 am - but thankfully I discovered walking and after that things were much better. And then Jac took us out for a week which helped with my sanity.
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