1.68 of that was in the real world, and one mile was done as part of a 15-minute walking video. The video is a free clip off of Leslie Sansone's website, a sort of "try before you buy" thing. It's low impact but definitely cardio and aerobic. I am going to walk outdoors as much as possible, but it is nice to have the option of the walking videos. I'd never heard of such a thing before, but someone in an online community was talking about them. It's like a workout on the treadmill, minus the treadmill. It's cheap, doesn't require a lot of space, and does what I want to do, which is work on cardiovascular health and mobility. My hips are creaking a little tonight, so I'm sure that today's mileage will be a high point for a little while, but eventually I want to work up to where I'm doing 5 miles a day. That will take a lot of slowly building up my endurance. My knees are doing fine, my feet are doing great, it's my hips that are complaining. That will get better with time and conditioning.
I know that everybody gets the same 24 hours in a day, but I am finding it hard to find time to do all the things that I want to do. I try to sleep from 10pm-6:45, so that's almost 9 hours; work about 5 hours more or less depending on call volume; spend about an hour and a half doing church/social things 4 times a week; then all the time left over is around 8 and a half hours, a little more on some days. That should be plenty of time for exercising, cleaning, cooking, shopping, reading, and whatever else needs doing. But even making a blog post takes almost 2 hours, for some reason. Maybe it's because my thoughts are still slow and it takes a lot of time to organize what I want to say. It's not as though what I am saying is important, but it's a good way for me to work through the day's events and examine what's going on in my mind. I know it seems random, but there's actually a lot of thought that goes into each post. But it just doesn't seem like there is enough time to do everything that I want to do. I'd like to sew, for instance, but that is something that takes a few hours at a time.
Maybe it's just that I lack the energy. If I had more drive and spark, I bet I could find time to do more things. So maybe it's not a lack of hours, but me just moving so slowly that everything takes longer than it should. It's like trudging through sludge, but a lot of the time I'm not aware of it because I lack the cognition to perceive it. I don't know that I'm moving like a snail, because I think I'm going at normal speed, and for me it IS normal speed, but the rest of the world is going a good bit faster.
So, to settle the issue, what I'm going to do is keep up with my time for a week. Whenever I'm doing something, I'll just make a note of the time. I won't do anything different, all I will do is record my activities. Then in a week I can look at it and try to see whether I'm just slow or if I'm wasting time somewhere. I will say that that Happiness Project takes up a lot of time. I have a lot of changes to make and a lot of goals to meet, and a little bit here and a little bit there can really add up. So maybe that's what it is. But the data will give me the answer, I hope.
Well, it's 10pm already, and I'm about out of words now, so time to hit the sack. Goodnight, world.
Great work on the walking, Jokamo!
ReplyDeleteData might give you answers, but remember what Mark Twain said about 3 kids of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics! It may be that these things will just take practice to do faster. Often what we want to do takes us longer when we first start, and as we get better, it takes up less time.
Hope you do get the answers you want.