Maxed out

After a victorious week in the exercise kingdom, I felt awesome for about a week and pushed myself to new limits. After a week of pushing my limits, I felt tired, drained, and on the verge of maxing out my capacity, so I took it easy for a week. That week was full of lighter running, lighter on the weights and TRX exercises, and I felt good to go again this week.

In work related news: We have a PC in my office that has been maxed out for at least a year. We let assistants use this computer for small tasks because that's all it's able to do anymore. It should have been replaced, but we don't have any money to replace it, and there are bigger issues and budgetary issues to contend with. So, we keep working that poor PC. I know one day, it's just going to quit working. The PC is slow, frustrated; sometimes it doesn't save files or allow us to log in. It's sad. There is no way to give that computer a rest. It just needs to be replaced as soon as possible.

Unfortunately I think I'm at capacity at my job as well, but I can't really stop and I can't really afford a nice, relaxing vacation. I'm starting to make mistakes. A woman came into my office a few weeks ago saying she had contacted me about an event she wanted to hold, and I didn't remember seeing her before. This was a small mistake. Today, I realized a serious double-booking - one I don't know if I'll be able to fix. I know it's not the end of the world, but I really want to be able to start fresh and don't know how. At this point, I just want to quit. But, I can't and won't because they repercussions of that would be far worse than the time off to reevaluate, refresh, renew and start again.

I'm searching postings like a mad woman again and submitting my resume, but nothing is popping yet. I haven't had a job interview in two months. I'm not sure how long I can keep working like this before my dissatisfaction starts maxing out other areas of my life as well.

How do I start new and fresh? How can I rejuvenate?

Frustrated.

Working my ass on

I'm not sure whose butt actually gets smaller as they get fit. Mine does not. My backside only gets larger and more muscly. (Is that even a word?) I'm not complaining, although I wish my belly would get smaller. Yep, it's the same size. My belly is affectionately called "the bagel" at my house. Roll me in sesame seeds and it looks like a sesame seed bagel. Sorry for the visual. :)

The good news is, I've been mixing up the routine big time over the past couple of months. A typical schedule is:

Mondays: 1 mile, 3 sets of TRX, 1 mile, 3 sets TRX, 1 mile, 3 sets TRX, (maybe another mile), stretch
Tuesday: 3-4 miles and weights
Wednesday: spinning
Thursday: off or TRX and running
Friday: off or TRX and running
Saturday: yoga and or a boot camp class
Sunday: long run

Now my goal is to up the miles (longer cardio), and/or include more biking or swimming while keeping on the TRX and weight routine. I figure this will add 20 minutes to each work out. I'm already signed up for swim lessons starting at the end of June.

I met with Kolleen again yesterday for another health assessment. My blood pressure is the same, I've lost one whole pound, BUT . . . I've lost 2% body fat since March. Woo hoo! 2%, 2%, 2%, YAY! It would be great to get down to 19%. I'd be stoked with 18%, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.