I am pleased to check in with you guys and let you know that I am actually still on track! I think it's going to stick this time :) I just needed a little spring time and motivation (and hope of getting off medicines!). I started on April 1 and have exercised EVERY SINGLE DAY except one since! That is 12 out of 13 days in a row...pretty stoked about this!
I have been alternating between my elliptical and walking outside. The dreaded elliptical is actually getting easier...I have stayed on it as many as thirty minutes. Considering when I first started, I was STRUGGLING after 5 minutes, I'm quite impressed with my 30 minutes. The other days, I have been walking outside. Some days, mom walks with me and others I hit the trail by myself. The nice thing about where I live is that I can walk across the street into the park and start down the West Cambridge Trail. I walk that way to the back entrance to the Lander track and then either one lap or two around the track and then back home. Saturday morning i walked 3 miles! I feel like I am slowly getting back to pre-cancer Jodi...you have NO IDEA what a wonderful wonderful feeling that is. It has been a very long time....and a long long road to get there.
Today, I had a ridiculous walk. Tiffani came to visit this weekend and once she left, I made myself go for a walk. I had not decided if I was going one lap or two around the track. As I was about 3/4 of the way around the track, this man came up and told me they would be locking up in about 10 minutes. I was not aware that they closed at 5 on Sundays! I pointed at the back gate and told him I would be leaving from that gate. By the time I got over there, the freaking gate was locked! I asked a man who was taking out trash if I could get out that way and of course he said no. He asked if I was parked out there and I told him no, that I walked to the track and I lived over that way. He told me to walk up towards the front of the complex, right past the fence, and there was a little pathway behind this lady's house that would put me out back where I needed to be. OH MY LORD. I should have just walked out the front gate and down Montague to get back to my house! Once I turned the corner down this "pathway", the area that I had to walk was about a foot and a half wide between 2 fences. What a disaster...I lost my hat twice, my headphones came unplugged 3 times from my ipod from getting hung on branches and I have a scrape on my arm ad 2 on my leg. I had been walking at such a great pace and that just killed it. I was so ill by the time I got out...and I STILL had to walk back home!
Anyway...I thought you guys might get a kick out of my fiasco...I'm sure it was MUCH funnier to watch that read about ;)
