For those who have been emailing me to blog, and or to see if this site went on hiatus… nope, I’ve just been super busy that I’ve barely had time to sit down and write or I’ve been dealing with my own demons. Since I had to get my gall bladder removed (because of the family history problems, and being 30 pounds overweight). I’ve been really hard on myself for getting so out of control.

The plan now is to trying to rebuild my cardio back up and my endurance since I was benched for all of April. It doesn’t seem like a long time but for an athlete, 30 days is a VERY long time. There is only so much metal training and watching video of races from precious years you can do before going stir crazy.

I’m really hoping by the end of summer that my daily routine of free weights in the morning and a jog/walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes then later on in the day hit the treadmill again for an hour – hour and a half on the days I don’t have practice. For the days I got practice, I just to walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes to workout the muscles will get me back down to nicer number on the scale.

Now that I have caught and leashed my demons, the next hurdle is keep the weight off that I lose and to keep those demons under control.

How do you keep your demons in check?

July marks the 1 year of living in this newish house (its only 8 years old) well 9 months of it’s been living though renos. You think a newish house wouldn’t have any real problems but boy was I surprised that I picked a house that was in a lovely neighbourhood, the floor plan was somewhat what we wanted and it was done by a well known contractor company. Moving in I knew we had to gut the coffin bathroom BUT, I wasn’t expecting crappy workmanship the walls aren’t straight, they used the cheapest cabinets around, sub trades did not clean up after themselves (all their crap got covered by the lawn). Not sure why they didn’t include the height of the basement in the design when they added the bulkhead, so now it just looks an afterthought. Nor used the hot/cold vents all thought out the house instead of adding baseboard heating on the top floor. Sure its cost more for a bigger furnace but it saves the future of gutting walls (which I’d love to do one day).

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