21 day Challenge - JOIN IN

Doing wonderful! It's great that you're finding new activities, especially with the cold season coming up that tries to pin folks inside to avoid the raw cold weather. Keep up the fantastic work!

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Round 7, day 7

More walking - 42 mins around campus and while on the job
lots of cleaning - 5 hours today.

Miss the gym, but still don't dare try to workout for personal reasons. Can't wait until those barriers leave again!

Yeah, it's Friday. Early morning for me, which I don't like. (If it's before noon, it's early for me. I function better later.)

Round 7, day 8

Work day, so here goes:
50 min walking (1.62 mi),
5.5 hours cleaning (had a cancellation, so got shorted 3 hours. Ugh!)

The calorie burns on Fridays can get to rival the ones I pull in on my swimming days. Especially when I have all of my clients on board for the day. Recently, it's been a little lighter because a few have been down sick. Which has done its wonders for me, and now I am down sick. Have to find the masks, so I won't miss work (and the hours that make paychecks!) But, I don't want to risk kicking off worse than what I have. (Which is usually what I wind up doing) Going to be an interesting next coupe of weeks.

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Round 7, day 9 (Sat)

30 mins walking eeked out of the day (Walking to/from the car/class) first acknowledged day with the mess I'm fighting off. Last day for this particular Saturday seminar, which is good.

Round 7 day 10 (Sun)
Doing as little as possible. MIGHT get the umph up to get some laundry done, at this point, I'm not sure. Still feel weak as a new born kitten. Getting into bed is even a challenge.

Still wasn't feeling up to tackling a full day of school yesterday, but felt a TON better last night. Tried hitting the schedule today, but only made it to noon (all work stuff) before I fell on my face. Spiked a fever, so am back on the side lines gnawing on knuckles because I DESPISE being sick, and being limited in what I can do. I know I need to rest, but I want to be out doing (and working) not stuck inside sitting and picking at homework.

Congratulations! Big step it looks like in forwarding your career. Keep it going, because you are worth every minute of effort!

As for recovery - tried to get back in the swing of things Thursday, but fell flat. I hadn't run up a fever yet, so when it spiked on me Thursday I knew I wasn't through yet. But, that fever meant I was a whole lot closer to the recovery side of things!

Didn't do anything yesterday, and today took it easy, but tried to see about moving most of the day. Not too bad, in all accounts. Actually have something to move my round forward again. ::Grins:: I think I'm just down to coughing up the rest of my lungs that haven't come out yet. (You know how bronchitis is - you cough up your lungs while you are down, then you cough them out AGAIN when you are recovering just to be sure you don't have anything left to breath with!)

Round 7, day 11
45 mins folding laundry cumulative, just had to do it in smaller spurts between coughing bouts.
Does coughing count as exercise? If it does, then I can count about 8 hours cumulative for THAT too.

Edit - had to look up what day I was on, due to being stalled so long.

Wow, what a variety! I do understand about the cleaning being hard on the calories, but great for the activity! Congrats on keeping on the move, even when you were out on business!

Round 7, day 12

Trying to ease back into the groove. Plan on staying away from the gym this week, and focus on just getting through classes and my work schedule. I'll add the gym back next week, after I've had another week of "light" duty for recovery before diving back in the water and under the iron.

So, today I spent 45 minutes lugging my 30 (ish) pound school pack around campus. And, this doesn't include the 20 minutes or so I SWEAR I got in lab walking around and around the lab tables chasing down bits and pieces we needed for the lab. Guess my pedometer got whacked a couple of good ones, because I know how long I walked, but it isn't all recorded. (Though, the battery could be giving out too. Haven't chased that particular pest.. yet.)

Round 7, day 14

Just a little lingering cough that sounds worse than it is, but it's not holding me back from diving back into the swing of things.

45 min total "walking", half of it carrying the 30 pound backpack.

Still not hitting the gym this week. Haven't been tired, but don't want to push it too hard just yet. Tomorrow and Friday will be the big tells on how I'm doing on recovery. Those are my longer work days with massive amounts of cleaning (and thus cleaning chemicals) to test my limits on. If all goes well, I think I may try to hit the pool on Sunday.