Day 7 - Morning Fiasco

I had intended to go to the YMCA this morning to work out. I had my wife set her alarm to wake up our son since I'd be home later than when I just step out the door and go. Everything was all set, or so I thought.

When I got up with my alarm, things went downhill rapidly. I hobbled to the bathroom walking oddly from a sore lower back and thighs that didn't want to move properly. I thought, "Okay, makes my aerobic choice easy, I'll go swimming," and then remembered that I hadn't been able to find or buy swim goggles last night. Biking and rowing were options, but I thought, "Those will just make me more sore." I'd lost my motivation so I thought to myself, "I'll go back to bed and take a 'rest morning'." So I did.

Just that easily I'd been derailed. Looking at it after I woke up, I realized that part of the problem was that I'd stayed up too late last night watching television and hadn't gone to bed until 11:30PM. Another part of the problem was that I was ambivalent going to bed on what I was going to do for my aerobic workout in the morning. Without a plan, when I woke up and things weren't like I'd expected I wandered off into, well, unplanned territory.

But the fun didn't end with a missed workout. Sleeping in threw off my entire morning routine. Getting cleaned up, eating breakfast, packing lunch, getting my son ready for school, all of those things were rushed and as a result I ended up choosing unfavorable carbohydrates for my breakfast and lunch to save time. Guess who didn't pack lunch and snack before bed because he was watching TV? Yeah.

I ignored almost all of my lessons learned from just a few days ago! I went to bed late, didn't lay out clothes for my workout (because I didn't even know what I was going to do), didn't do my food preparation, and to top it all off I slept in throwing off my entire morning routine. I'd plead temporary insanity but I don't think even I buy it.

On the upside, I'm not hobbling around on sore thighs and shins today and I'm well rested. While my meals weren't ideal, they were Zone meals and true to the program. I'm also very motivated to do a good circuit training workout tonight. I'm chalking this morning up as a very avoidable fiasco and hoping that it reinforces the lessons I thought I'd already learned.

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1