Tummy Troubles

My stomach has been bothering me since Wednesday, so thought I would take the day off of training. Well, it didn't really get any better so it's turned into taking a week off of training. Typical Crohn's stuff. I am feeling better today, so hopefully tomorrow I can at least go for a 30 minute walk, and ease back into some training.

It's hard for me to feel like I am making progress in my effort to have the quality of life that I would like when I have a stretch of days of this much discomfort. What I have come to realize is that there are still a few more pieces of the puzzle I need to figure out, and that is ok with me. I'm still moving forward.

Pass

I'm taking a pass on exercise and working late and responsibility for the evening.

I am being a bad trainee. I've been have tummy troubles all day and I'm exhausted. Instead of doing my 8 mile ride (which I will attempt tomorrow) , I went and got my hair did.

Part of having a chronic illness is knowing and accepting your limitations. Today my body tells me "not going to happen".


Now excuse me as i take a pass on finishing this blog!




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Human Resource

I've got this awesome resource at my disposal -- this resource is my roommate. She is the ultimate physical fitness machine (at least I think so). She is also acting as my trainer (she's good). This morning, she adjusted a few things on my bike (seat height, gears), and with her encouragement (and her not telling me how far she thought we were going) we rode about 15 miles today! 15 miles!!!!!!!!!

We rode from Clintonville to Genoa Park on the Olentangy Greenway (aka bike path). There was a dragon boat exhibition to kick off the Asian Festival (which is next week, you all should go). So we did take a few hour break in the middle of the 15, but OH MY GOD! To top it all off, the CD101 Ice Cream Truck was hanging out  at Tuttle Park when we passed, so we got some delicious free ice cream.

After all of that excitement I had no choice but to come home and take a 3 hour nap. All in all, an awesome end to week 3 of training, thanks to my HUMAN RESOURCE!

Infused!

I am sitting in my lounge chair at the clinic getting my 2 hour Remicade drip. I'm 3/4 of the way through my training this week, go me, I feel good and now I'm about to feel much better! Tomorrow I try for 7 miles on my bike, wish me luck!!!


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Location:Davis infusion clinic

WOAH! I'm halfway there!

Thank you donors! 

I hit the halfway point in my fundraising tonight, only $500 left to go. Help a girl out!

Ups and downs

Everybody has days where they don't feel great. As a crohnie I have considerably more down days than most people. I was having two of those days over the weekend.

I didn't really want to write a whiny post about being sick, but I also need to be true to my experience so others can understand what a crohnie does every day.

I managed to squeeze a ride in before I got too sick, but canceled everything else to rest.

Despite being down for two days in a phenergen haze, I am back at work today and feel ready to go back to the gym tonight. I try to take things day by day, and today things are looking up! So begins week 3 of training!


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Don't call it a COMEBACK!

Really, don't call it that, it was a minor sinus infection and I missed 6 hours of work and was asleep for most of yesterday.

I did rock out my training today on the scary eliptical which moves both your arms and legs (I'm surprised I didn't fall off of it, there is still time). I finished up time from training day 2 (stair climbing *shudder*), and my 30 minutes today.

Also, special thanks to my donors this week, who helped me reach $200.00. If you haven't donated yet I'll come get you. Robyn said KNOCK YOU OUT!

Mountains

As Jon Kabat-Zinn would say "Today was not a good day to see the mountain". (I am the mountain of course).

The mountain was up early taking care of it's belly ( typical morning), then foolishly decided to reset the alarm which got reset to 7:50pm instead of am.

This means I had to work late which cut out my training time for the evening. The thing about making a commitment to something like this is that I need to get it done. Sssooo I split my lunch break into 10 minute intervals which I used to climb up and down the stairs of our building, (there are 110 stairs, I counted).

I wasn't feeling so well so I only got 2 of 3 intervals done. I am going to cut myself some slack and make up those other 10 minutes later in the week after I get some new medications.

The moral of the story is, although it was not a good day to see the mountain, I started climbing it anyways.

P.S. There is no rule that says I have to climb the entire mountain in one day.




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Ouch

Day after vigorous rowing.


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Location:Bed

Love Letter to OSU Rec Sports

Dearest OSU Rec Sports,

How do I love thee? Let describe the ways in non-poetic sentence fragments:


Your facilities are cavernous and full of new shiny machines that are programmed to turn on when I sit down.


You have a ROCK WALL.


You have not one pool, not two, not even three but FOUR pools. Michael Phelps is jealous (it was one of the reasons we ended our relationship).


There are TVs to watch to distract me from the pain i'm feeling when i'm working out.


Finally, you hold soccer tournaments for young fit intelligent (i'm assuming) male specimens that I can watch while I'm exercising. I forget that I'm exercising.   I forget to breathe sometimes.


                               Love Always,
                Crohie With an Overactive Imagination

BikerBabe

So I have this amazing family member who is really into cycling. I'm talking riding bikes on the edges of mountains, across entire states, and in different countries (that's right -- total nutbar). We'll call her BikerBabe.

I accidentally mentioned to BikerBabe that I might be doing this ride and got a LOT of tips about tuning up my bike, what tires to get, and a lot of excitement. Maybe she might be more excited about this than I am.

I am currently taking suggestions on how to convince this superhero BikerBabe to ride FOR me.


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Training ADD

Clearly, I am out of shape. Girl needs to start training ASAP or they are going to be following me with the ambulance and oxygen tank all the way to whereever/whomever it is I'm riding towards (during the ride I will be imagining Stephen Colbert holding a delicious cupcake).

My first day of training was to be 30 minutes of "CT" (the hipster abbreviation for Cross Training), and boys and girls I CROSSED. I began with a 10 minute walk down the bike path, then ran into my roommate who was running the other direction and crossed my training to run for 5 minutes with her.

After we reach our destination, I walked up and down the back porch steps for 5 minutes, and then crossed my training again with our 4 year old neighbors' hula-hoop. The hooping was mild to moderate for the first 5 minutes, but I kicked up my intensity for the last 5

BAM 30 minutes of CT completed. Let's hope all days are this interesting.