Thursday, June 14, 2012

Turns out that keeping up routines while travelling is hard...


So, with me being gone for 5 days, it's been a little difficult to stick to plans.  We tried, though, and did...mostly ok.  Have a summary, in yet another, slightly different format.

Fitness: Despite being across the country from one another, Mu and I both did the scheduled C25K sessions on Sunday and Tuesday.  We moved to 4 minutes of walking and 1 minute of jogging for 30 minutes, and it actually didn't feel any harder, which I think is a sign that something is working, ever so slightly.  We'll do the last workout with those times today, and then move to 3:1, most likely. 

Sleeping: Mu says his sleep schedule is still a work in progress, and mine was all over the place, with the Boston trip and all.  I'm gonna try to get back to a midnight-8am thing and see how that goes.  I was reminded at my conference, though, that performance is correlated with sleep in a 24hr period rather than nighttime sleep only, so I think as long as I keep my rise time steady, it's ok for me to get a little less sleep at night and take a nap.

Eating: My food intake was really all over the place with travel, and I'm not keeping track of my weight.  Mu says he hasn't lost any weight this week.

Language: Mu did 2 modules of the online Russian course he's taking!  I was amazed to have a little text exchange with him in Russian, it was great!  I haven't done any Italian yet.

Writing: As predicted, I haven't done any.  But, I've put blocks into my calendar for next week, so that's progress, right?

Cooking: Nothing new, with being gone.  Planning on cooking tomorrow afternoon, most likely.  Plus, I'm probably gonna go to the farmer's market with my dad on Saturday.  At 7am.  Maybe.

Activities: Not much for me, except for lots of socializing with sleep research friends.  Mu did spend time with friends and family while I was gone.  We're putting lots of interesting things into our calendars, though!  I'm pretty excited for next week.

I gotta start taking pictures of something to include in my posts, but what?  I also need to figure out some weekly features.  This blogging thing is taking effort! :)

4 comments:

  1. I'm super impressed that you kept track of your goals while traveling! I usually (though unintentionally) use traveling as an excuse to drop any goals I might have been working on. Nice work!

    Could you take a picture of something you see on each jog or walk? On the rare occasion I remember to bring a camera with me, it makes walks a lot more fun to be looking the whole time for some cool little thing to take a picture of. :-)

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    1. Thanks! I'm actually pretty pleased with myself, as well -- I fully expected to not do anything fitness-related, but somehow, both Mu and I made it happen!

      Taking a picture while jogging is a great idea! We'll try that out today, I think. I suppose I can also take a picture at trapeze, or rather get someone else to do so. :)

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  2. I think you need to take a picture of your face at 7am on Saturday. Like that picture I took of you in our corner of the airport in Athens.

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    1. Hah. It would be more like 6am if we want to leave at 7. And poor Mu would have to wake up to take the picture. Or I suppose my dad could do it.

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