Since Last I Wrote

Several things have changed since June 16.

1. I am now a grandma of TWO, count 'em TWO grandsons! Jackson and Cole Dever were born on July 14 (were "scheduled" for today, but decided to do it on their own terms and came early).

2. I have been able to bike ride (at LEAST 3 miles each out.. usually 5 when I go alone) 4 out of the last 6 days EVEN WITH ALL THIS RAIN!!!

3. I'm beginning to NOT be exhausted when I get back from my ride!

Hopefully, I can stay motivated. I still can't get too excited about Round 9 as I'm OUT of the office more than I'm in... and on the days when I do work, I'm out on the road... carrying, lifting.. it's GOTTA count for something! My toughest challenge was getting away from web developing at home... computer potato????

Just gotta keep on.. keeping on...

Only work TH and FR... so I'm exercising @ home

OK... I can't be exercising at work when I only work two days a week...

Today: took a 3.9806 bike ride w/ the hubs... well he did the first mile or so and I kept on going.

So... I will read about the round 9 stuff... but am just plain old exercising...

And- I am a grandma of twins!!! Jackson Marshall and Cole Lennon born June 14 at 5:01am and 5:02am... Jackson was 6lbs. 4oz. and Cole was 6lbs. 3oz... and that's "alottababy" for one little girl to hold!!

So.. that's my blog for this round so far...

:)

Exercise

Today, I dragged out the bike... do I get credit for that? heh.

My back is finally GOOD... so I biked to the beach to take some pictures of the work just done on our community inlet. It was kinda clammy out... so I came a ball of sweat, but I guess that means I worked- at this age, like I mentioned above, just getting the bike out was work.

So. Total biked: 5.1419 miles. Total photos taken: 7. Total enjoyment factor: 10.

Neat little tool to measure your travels can be found at: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

It's a google goodie that is fun to use!

Thursday and Friday I get my exercise lugging books from the building to the car... from the car to the nursing home... return from the nursing home to the car w/ their OLD books... and from the car to the building... it's a LONG day w/ lots of lifting... so there will be no bike riding for two days!

That's all there is to report at this time. More to come.. Longer routes, hopefully.. but GRADUALLY increasing... I liked the route I took today. next goal.. FASTER.

Stress is over... on to the exercise section!

OK... so we all know how terrible I was at handling stress... I'm really glad that part's done-  it was SO STRESSFUL!!

I know I can do this exercise thing... I'm going to start walking again-  My back pain is finally gone and I am ready to get started.

I have visited the Sparkpeople.com website.  I've registered, but it's a bit overwhelming.  My goal this weekend is to spend some time really getting acquainted w/ the site.

I will be walking in the mornings on the days I don't work (which is MOST DAYS)

Back on the wagon-  I will also set a goal of writing more... but sitting less!

That's all for now... meet the mets.. meet the mets...