July Challenge: Journey so far and check-in #3

[blnchflr]

Leave your current mileage and active hours in the comments :)

Week 2:
ell: 65.5/130 miles, 9/20 hours
franzi1981: 19.7/25 km 2/0 hours
ilanarama: 12.6/70 miles
linaelyn: 0/25 miles, 8/35 hours
liv: 11/40 km, 10.5/25 hours
meri_oddities: 84/120 miles, 3/8 hours
ridicully: 25/75 km, 3/25 hours
semielliptical: 42/85 miles, 2.5/8 hours
blnchflr: 27/50 km, 1.5/2 hours
temve: 29.5/70 miles, 19/20 hours

Together we've travelled 475.1 miles or 764.4 km in July, or 43.9 % of our collective goal!



From Schleswig or close enough, we passed by Kiel and through Neumünster, then excitingly through the second-biggest city in Germany: Hamburg, running though the Elbtunnel - "Achtung, achtung, hier spricht die Polizei! Hallo, hallo, det er politiet!" (at least they used to say that back in the day; haven't been through in years).

From Hamburg we continued south as decided by the poll, running by Lüneburger Heide for a bit, through Hannover and Hildesheim, and stopping for the week in the small town of Rhüden.

Not as long a run as week 1, as we had a couple of people out of commission, but we're still 0.5 % ahead of our goal, so go us!!

Comments

[ell]

First week of a new job absolutely destroyed my running plan this week, I only managed 2 of 6 planned runs (but at least one was my long run) bringing me up to 82 miles for the month and 21:30 of other active hours (including 7.2 km swum and 200 km biked) so I guess that's something.

I'm feeling a bit like a failure anyway, so if someone here could just pat me on the virtual head and tell me I'm doing ok, it would be much appreciated.

[blnchflr]

Congrats on new job - new job on its own spells non-failure :)

[ell]

:) thank you

[linaelyn]

New Job? WOW! That's HUGE! To manage any runs at ALL in that kind of week is OFFICIALLY AMAZING.

You do realize intellectually that your healthy activities, active hours & running time are in the crazycakes upper reaches of not-normal, right? That most humans in our mutual age-contingent get upset at having to park the car at the back of the lot because it means they have to walk a couple hundred yards to get to the groceries, and back home to the sofa & tv? YOU ARE DOING ASTOUNDINGLY WELL.

[ell]

intellectually, i do know this, but that doesn't seem to matter to the feeling part of my brain.

as for the job, it's just a job and it's temporary, but it's the first time i've been out of the house for a full-time job since i've been here - all the other work i've done has been telework to the us from home. it turns out that i don't have the spoons to work (did i mention it's in a foreign language?) with other people and have any left over for me and Tem. at the very least, this has really brought home to us that i really do need some sort of intervention because it turns out that when i thought i was just lying around being a waste of humanity, it turns out that i was actually gathering spoons up for the other hours of the day where i could then appear mostly normal and not crazy.

[linaelyn]

It is so wonderful that we have the metaphor of spoons to help us understand these things. :-) Having the challenges of your general level of spoons, on top of New Job, and Not-your-Native-Language, WOW. You are doing well just to keep your head above water.

There have definitely been times in my own life when it was Work-and-nothing-left-for-home, both as the stressed worker, and as the partner of the stressed one. And the first month(s?) of a new job are often that way.

[linaelyn]

I just went back to your post about core conditioning, and referenced it for my exercise plan for August. You are my hero, you know this? You are.

[ell]

♥

[temve]

*pat* You're doing more than OK. You're doing amazing, handling all the things you do! <3

[linaelyn]

And it's great that she has you there as a support. *hugs* Thanks.