Growing in confidence

[Princess Fancy]

Hi there bees,

I'm back again. In the old forum i had a training log too (but not for very long untill i stopped posting and working out...). I don't remember for how long i know darebee, but over the time i did most of the easier workouts and i started running.
Now i did a fresh start this month, despite life beeing very busy. Beside my job, i'm on the board of a small student drama club and we are having two plays coming up. The first performances will take place this weekend (so the last rehearsal today) and the other one in two more weeks.
I'm still trying to keep up with my fitness journey. Overall, my fitness is not to bad. I don't own a car so i use my bike a lot and my partner and me are going dancing once a week.

But I want to get more consistency, and so i hope a training log will keep me motivated. For a start my goals are:

• Exercise at least a little every day
• Beeing able to run 10k again, this time in (under) 1 hour (theres an upcoming running event in mai)
• Finally finish my very last essay for my bachelor degree (I even have my thesis finished, only this essay is missing)

For a start, i decidet to redo all of the easier programms, since the are updated. I started with foundation light and arms of steel (seatet) and am almost finish.

I'm not sure yet how often i can update this log, but i'll try twice a week. Since english is not my native language, i'm happy about corrections, so I can improve my language skills also.

So long bees, I'm exitet about this new start.

 

[Fremen]

Welcome

 

[aku-chan]

 

[Princess Fancy]

Thanks for your warm welcome Fremen and aku-chan (how do i tag peole again...?)

So here's what I accomplished:

Thur: AoS and Foundation light day 28
Fri: 30 min run comfortable pace
Sat: AoS and Foundatoin light days 29 and 30 -> that means double badge day
Sun: 35 min run comfortable pace

For my essay, i did some literature work last week (researching, reading academic books and papers, citing passages etc.) up till now i have about 14/20 pages written. But since i'm finished with the literature work now, i hope to get the last pages done till christmas. I still need to write the discussion and conclusion parts.

Our performances last weekend wend really well, sadly there weren't that much visitors. We'll hope for more visitors on our other play in two weeks.

Have a great week y'all

 

[Mamatigerj]

Welcome @Princess Fancy!

 

[Princess Fancy]

Hi y'all, I decided to participate in fit december and the one and done challenge. I also did some running. So here's the summary:

Mon: Fit december day 1 & 2; OaD-Challenge Day 1 & 2 (so 2 minutes in total, with a pause)
Tue: Running 22 min comfortable pace; OaD-Challenge day 3
Wed: Fit december days 3 & 4; OaD-Challenge day 4
Thur: Fit december day 5, OaD-Challenge day 5

Today I hope to get 1-2 pages written for my essay. Let's see how that works out.

 

[Anek]

Hi!

 

[Damer]

Good to see you back @Princess Fancy and we have some treats for you this year which also, as it happens, marks the 10th anniversary of the Christmas Tree event!

 

[Princess Fancy]

Hi everyone, thank you @Anek and @Damer for your greetings. I'm looking forward to the christmas tree event, how exiting that it's been 10 years now!

The last days i managed beeing active, beside having the most busy time than ever and feeling exhausted. But exercise helps me keeping sane.
Here's what i did:

Fri: Running 33 min comfortable pace; One & done challenge
Sat: Fit december days 6 & 7; One and done challenge
Sun: 42 min run, comfortable pace; this time my fiance joined me, which was really nice. He hasn't been running for months, but it was still an easy run for him... well he
always was a good runner and want's to do 25k in may.

Mon: Fit december days 8 & 9; One and done challenge

Essay: 2,5 pages written, in total 16,5/20 pages done. I slowly feel like i've written everything that is necessary and now i have to start repeating myself... I was always better getting on point than writing a whole lot.

I try to start interacting with your logs and other parts of the forum more in january, when all the crazy stuff is over. This week I need to get over with the last rehearsals and our musical. Sadly, we only have a few preorders up till now, but i'm not giving up hope for a better audiance.

Have a great week bees

 

[Princess Fancy]

Finally an Update from me. The last days, especially last week has been super intense and busy. I'm at a point were i am physically and mentally exhaustet. But at least, some things have come to an end and i know that january should be much better. I did slower most days, since i caught a cold on saturday, but i managed to do something every day. Especially my runs have suffered, but i hope to pick them up again during the holiday break.

Tue: One & Done challenge, 200 jacks (for the ornament), Fit december day 10
Wen: One & Done challenge, 200 jacks, Fit december day 11
Thu: One & Done challenge 200 jacks, Fit december day 12, 13
Fri: I felt suprisingly good, so 52 min run comfortable pace (about a good 7k), One & Done challenge, 200 jacks
Sat: One & Done challenge (slow butt kicks), 200 step jacks, Fit december day 14
Sun: One & Done challenge (slow), Fit december day 15
Mon: One & Done challenge (slow), Fit december day 16
Tue: One & Done challenge (slow), Fit december day 17
Wen: One & Done challenge (slow), Fit december day 18
Tue: One & Done challenge (slow), Fit december day 19

Essay: all 20 pages finished! Now theres still some editing work left and then my fiance has to check for misteakes, but i'm really happy it's almost done.

Since the Fit december program has no high impact exercises i still felt healty enough to do them in a slower pace, just like the challenge. I'm happy that they are so adjustable. I'm feeling way better already, so tomorrow i will try to do normal butt kicks and to go a little running again.
Then we are already heading to our parents tomorrow night. They life at the other end of germany, so it will be a night train ride... just in a normal train. So bright lights and loud announcements all night that keep you from sleeping. But at least we should be there early on saturday morning and can sleep a few our till lunchtime.
We plan on staying two weeks. I'm not sure how much i can keep up my workouts and runs and posting here, but i'll try. Mostly we'll enjoy family and frieds time, but still a few uncomfortable discussions lie ahead. Our mothers (and grandmother and sister-in-law...) are overexitet abour our wedding and have a lot of plans. We must try and make clear to them that we want to make some things different than they want us to do and that we wish them to respect that...