Take the Long Way Home

Well.  I just walked for about an hour from my house,
 (hahahahaha... Lena's shorter so I guess she's the cop!)

...to Smoothie King,


and then to the Main Library on Goodwood


where I am now. 

(Listened to a RadioLab podcast while I walked.  It was about the beginning and development of the show Candid Camera - it was really interesting!  Check that out here: RADIOLAB

It took about an hour or so, I think.  Google maps says my route was about 3 miles.  I guess that's good for me. 

My Fitbit wants me to take 10,000 steps a day.  Depending on the particulars of a day, I usually end up with about 5,000 when I leave work.  If I go early to Crossfit

and walk or run a little on my own before class, I can hit the 10,000 then... or sometimes I'll hit it during or after class... or, sometimes, I'll end my weekday in the 8,000's.

On any normal Saturday or Sunday, I move so little that sometimes I don't even break 2,000.  Seriously.  Right now, I'm at 8,464.

  And I still have to walk home.  Unless I punk out and get Lena to come pick me up... hahaha...
  She's so cute.  :-)

So here I am at the library, had several things I wanted to do here but can only remember 1 or 2 or them.  Such is the life.

One thing that's been on my mind a lot lately is AGE!  I am 42.  I weigh about 20 pounds less these days than I did over the previous... 10 years or so?  I'm in better shape, yada yada... but I'm FORTY-TWO!!  Like EVERYBODY around me, a lot of the time, is younger than I am!  I don't ever want to hear someone refer to me as "that lady" - I like being "that girl."  My eyes are a little puffy, I have a few wrinkly places on my face, a couple of sun spots, and I find the occasional grey hair... I don't like it at all!  The people I work out with, a lot of them, I could be their freakin' MOM!  That is SO WEIRD and I DO NOT LIKE IT AT ALL!!!!!

But that's one of those things I can't do anything about.  So I'll have to find ways to cope.  Maybe I should read up on things like "embracing my age" or whatever.  That is definitely one thing that has me agitated a lot lately, though.  Errgh..

At LEAST my putting so much effort into working out is like... preventative maintenance.  The stronger I make my body, while I am easily able to do so, the stronger it will remain when I get (*cough*) old.

(See, Amber... I listen... LOL!)

 (This is Amber, one of our awesome coaches.  She makes some really wise comments while we work out... not preaching;  just tossing out her Mardi Gras beads of sound advice.  Like talking about the functionality of fitness and strength.  Smart, strong woman there, and a great motivator.)

(Y'all COME WORK OUT WITH US!!!  We have an awesome, brand-new building, a top-notch staff I like to plug as often as I have the chance, and a program that will be scaled to your individual needs and abilities from day one, forward!  Yes, it's hard work... but it is SO WORTH IT and, for what it's worth, a lot of fun!)

Okay, that will conclude my Geaux Crossfit commercial for today.  (Click the link!! haha)

Not much else to say today.  I just missed blogging so I wanted to poke my head up and say hi, like Punxsutawney Phil.


And now, I believe, I am seeing my shadow.

 (yep, there it is...)

Soon I will refill my water bottle and begin my trek back home.  There I will take a good, hot shower and settle back into my couch for some good TV viewing. 


I love the weekends.

Take care, y'all!!

xo
Nicole

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