Happy New Year to the world and may this year be the year that we all open our hearts and learn to accept our differences as well as our similarities.
Here is Ceanna my grand daughter, just turned 4, trying to find a balance with these new things on her feet. They use plastic trash buckets here to start skating and finding their balance. This is her first trip to a skating rink. She had a very hard time the first time around and spent more time on her bottom than on her skates.
By the end of the first day, actually within 2 hours, she tried skating by herself. She found her balance. WOW! What a great kid. She will be walking the hills of the world one day.
Then it was off sledding in the beautiful snow we had for Christmas. The hills around the neighborhood are great. I flew down one and ended up in a marsh that wasn't totally frozen. A bit wet but great fun and I went back and did it again.
It has been a very interesting move. With the extreme blood loss when I arrived I discovered that the older the body the longer it takes to replace all that blood. It is also very painful but alas I believe I have overcome it all. Now I am building my core muscles and my lungs. We will see how long that takes. I thought I was going to come here and continue where I left on in Charlotte. No! No way, I am completely rebuilding my body and it is taking some time. Things got away from me for a bit during Christmas but I am finally back into the flow. I have started a gym class called Fit2 Be Me. It is designed for women after child birth. It is core rebuilding, finding limits and moving them further, Zumba and several other classes. Let's just say, they know what they are doing and the aching of my abs prove it. So instead of out climbing mountains I am walking and taking classes to rebuild my core. I am thinking that by spring I will be back in the mountains, contending with mud by then. I will have to get some different boots to hike in mud.
I was having lunch the other day at Cracker Barrel and met an older couple. She was walking with a cane but the brightness in her eyes was almost blinding. She and I started talking about The Camino and walking it. She asked about the book I was reading, Aleph by Paulo Coehlo. I explained him by describing his book, The Pilgrimage, about his walk across northern Spain. She had heard about the walk and had seen the movie "The Way" and knew all about Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez making the movie and walking the path. We had a very spirited conversation about the walk and she looked like she would like to do it. In fact when I told her that the biggest age groups are those just out of college and retired people she was amazed. We parted talking about meeting on the trail. I love it when someone around my age gets excited about walking.
So, to sum it all up, I am still training but not like I thought I would be. I am looking forward to an even greater health. I am a mixture of lazy and energized so I get lots done and I get nothing done. But I have come to realize that I became the lazy me out of over doing. As a much younger adult I over did all the time. I didn't have much choice at the time but it was certainly wrong and I am paying for it now. Breaking the laziness that developed out of exhaustion has not been easy for me but I am getting better all the time. I also have noticed since I lost this 40lbs that I am desiring to be more active. I am wanting to be more fit. I am dreaming about me as a fit athletic person. This month I am working on regaining my momentum in exercising and better eating habits after great holidays. I am also learning that omitting food groups isn't the same for me at this age as it was when I was younger and the seasons make a difference as well. Therefore my winter diet has more non vegetable carbs than my summer diet does. To keep me warm.
Before I sign off there is one more thing I want to learn about and it is how to do such a great walk and eat to support the walk but not to mess up my body again. I know it can be so easy to over eat and return continuing that behavior. So I am look for ways to keep my body fueled during the walk but yet not need to continue to eat at the same level when I return. If anyone has any ideas please share. Right now I am thinking maybe eating a very small amount every 2 hours with as big a breakfast as I can get and as small a dinner I can find.
Buen Camino
b
Here is Ceanna my grand daughter, just turned 4, trying to find a balance with these new things on her feet. They use plastic trash buckets here to start skating and finding their balance. This is her first trip to a skating rink. She had a very hard time the first time around and spent more time on her bottom than on her skates.
It has been a very interesting move. With the extreme blood loss when I arrived I discovered that the older the body the longer it takes to replace all that blood. It is also very painful but alas I believe I have overcome it all. Now I am building my core muscles and my lungs. We will see how long that takes. I thought I was going to come here and continue where I left on in Charlotte. No! No way, I am completely rebuilding my body and it is taking some time. Things got away from me for a bit during Christmas but I am finally back into the flow. I have started a gym class called Fit2 Be Me. It is designed for women after child birth. It is core rebuilding, finding limits and moving them further, Zumba and several other classes. Let's just say, they know what they are doing and the aching of my abs prove it. So instead of out climbing mountains I am walking and taking classes to rebuild my core. I am thinking that by spring I will be back in the mountains, contending with mud by then. I will have to get some different boots to hike in mud.
I was having lunch the other day at Cracker Barrel and met an older couple. She was walking with a cane but the brightness in her eyes was almost blinding. She and I started talking about The Camino and walking it. She asked about the book I was reading, Aleph by Paulo Coehlo. I explained him by describing his book, The Pilgrimage, about his walk across northern Spain. She had heard about the walk and had seen the movie "The Way" and knew all about Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez making the movie and walking the path. We had a very spirited conversation about the walk and she looked like she would like to do it. In fact when I told her that the biggest age groups are those just out of college and retired people she was amazed. We parted talking about meeting on the trail. I love it when someone around my age gets excited about walking.
So, to sum it all up, I am still training but not like I thought I would be. I am looking forward to an even greater health. I am a mixture of lazy and energized so I get lots done and I get nothing done. But I have come to realize that I became the lazy me out of over doing. As a much younger adult I over did all the time. I didn't have much choice at the time but it was certainly wrong and I am paying for it now. Breaking the laziness that developed out of exhaustion has not been easy for me but I am getting better all the time. I also have noticed since I lost this 40lbs that I am desiring to be more active. I am wanting to be more fit. I am dreaming about me as a fit athletic person. This month I am working on regaining my momentum in exercising and better eating habits after great holidays. I am also learning that omitting food groups isn't the same for me at this age as it was when I was younger and the seasons make a difference as well. Therefore my winter diet has more non vegetable carbs than my summer diet does. To keep me warm.
Before I sign off there is one more thing I want to learn about and it is how to do such a great walk and eat to support the walk but not to mess up my body again. I know it can be so easy to over eat and return continuing that behavior. So I am look for ways to keep my body fueled during the walk but yet not need to continue to eat at the same level when I return. If anyone has any ideas please share. Right now I am thinking maybe eating a very small amount every 2 hours with as big a breakfast as I can get and as small a dinner I can find.
Buen Camino
b
