Still Working on My Fitness

This week sure has been a busy one. I've not done as well on my dieting this week. Mary Margaret has been telling ya'll all about it on her blog! She's really come a long way with her blogging.

TRACK
MM had her first track meet Tuesday. The whole WJHS Lady Jackets were awesome. They placed in every event, they all get ribbons! The boys did great too. Mary Margaret does the discus throw, I believe her total feet was 54.5 feet, I'm not sure, Taylor was chattering away in my ear, anyway she placed and gets a ribbon. I saw more blood during the track meet than another sport I've watched this year. Mary Margaret was not the only one who tripped over hurdles. They ran ten sets of hurdles, one girl (Green County Tech I think) tripped over the next to last hurdle and slid on her shoulder, she had to be carried off the track. The Niesler boy on the Wynne Team tripped and bloodied his shoulder up real good. Several of the other schools had kids that tripped. I never thought this would be such a bloody sport.

WORK
Business is slow.

CHALLENGE

We are participating in the 30X5 Challenge over at 2nd Cup of Coffee. MM is filling her 30 minutes easily because of Track practice. Taylor and I are finding other places to walk during that time. We've walked around the local park and we've even waited out the track practice and walked afterwards. Last night, because the meet lasted until 6PM, we couldn't walk after or during. I shoveled the dust off the tread mill and cranked it up during Biggest Loser/American Idol for Taylor. She walked/jogged for 24.5 minutes. When she was finished, she flopped down in the chair and looked at me and said...Dang, I like the track better. Sweat was poring down her face and her face was beat red. That's what I call a work out.

How did I work in my 30 for the challenge? I spread mine out during the whole day yesterday...
a little of this...

I'm counting the attic stairs at the funeral home. I went up and down these babies yesterday about 20 times in a row. Why? For the fun of it. Not.

and a little of this

I made the trip from the funeral home to my van several times yesterday because I kept forgetting stuff. Yep, I'm old and forgetful.

Later last night...
I decided that I can't let Taylor get ahead of me so I take to the tread mill. I think I'll start out around 2.5. I'm thinking, wait a minute, Taylor jogged, I've been jogging at the track, I'll jog too. My house is not built for me to jog on the tread mill. The floor rumbled, pictures shook and I stepped off the moving tack several times, after about 10 minutes I decided to get off. I realize now that my little tread mill is not like the big ol' fancy ones at the gym. It's not wide and there is no automatic incline. I thought during the walk, I sure would like to make the incline steeper, I would have stop, turn it off, remove the pins, raise it up, put the pins back, lower the walk, plug it back up and start all over. Too much work.

Today, we will walk the track after track practice is over. So much easier.

What have you been doing to get moving? Tell me...