Going Getting Better than Not Going

With Beav-X-90, I've set the low expectation that I wouldn't be attending on Tuesdays.  I teach in Newton, Iowa until 9pm on Mondays.  Getting home and getting wound down after a long class makes for too little sleep before my 4:30am alarm.

Then, Tuesdays became Mondays.  I skipped last Monday after a Sunday spent doing my sister's Ingersoll "Wine Crawl."  I missed my Sunday-reset.  Sundays are the days when I hang around the house, get caught up on work and chores, relax, and take things down a notch.  When I spend my Sundays actually doing something that involves putting on "going into public clothes," I just felt gross and tired and overwhelmed.

This Monday I skipped because I felt gross and tired and overwhelmed after missing my Sunday-reset; (as you know, the Tiger and I had only just returned from our weekend of romance in Dubuque).

I thought about going.  I had gotten plenty of sleep.  But, then, my knee hurt, and I was tired, and my back hurt, and it is "bear season," and it was cold, excuses, excuses, excuses.

When I woke up at 6:30, I wasn't glad I had skipped; not at all.  I wished I had gone.

Today, though, I was super excited for Beav-X-90.  Finally, finally(!), we got to do some punching.  Ed cooked up an awesome workout of running and push-ups and kickboxing.

One of our warm-up activities involves "suicides" to the poles in the gym.  But, the gym is not that big, and the first pole is like four feet from the starting position.  When I do my suicides, I can't help but think of Chip Douglas.* 

I always wish Steven were with me to appreciate the reference.

So, I never thought that this would happen, but going to Beav-X-90 is now better than sleeping through it.  And, though, 4:30am is still ruining my social life, getting up in the morning is getting easier.  I never thought that would happen.  

In her blog today, Steven wrote about feeling good after a weekend that blended productivity, fitness, and fun.  The benefits were immediately apparent with better sleep for the Small One and feeling rested before returning to the grind of work.  I am feeling some some of those immediate benefits myself.  That's the feeling that sustains a lifestyle of fitness, rather than flash in the pan.


*Another, completely unrelated, Cable Guy-as-Life moment is coming up in November.  The Tiger and I are going to a wedding in Las Vegas.  The wedding is at the Excalibur Casino and Resort.  The main entertainment at Excalibur is a little thing called "The Tournament of Kings."  Yatzee!