Patience

My leg is slowly getting better, but it’s an up and down process.  A few days ago, it felt pretty good, yesterday it hurt like heck, and today it’s better again.  Frustrating.  Some days I feel like I have a knot in my calf.  I have a prescription from the ortho doc for PT, so have a few sessions scheduled with a clinic near where I work out, starting on Monday.   Patience is definitely not my strong suit so by going to PT, I’m hoping to speed up the healing process somehow.   My trainer has me doing stretching and strengthening type stuff on leg days and yesterday, I told him that my workouts were starting to feel like going to to the dentist.  Necessary but boring and not fun.

My biggest problem with not working out HARD (besides missing my endorphin rush) is that I start to worry that I'm gaining weight.  I don't want too look too closely at "that," because I'll make myself crazy.   The honest truth is (according to my heart rate monitor), the difference between working out hard and working out moderately or even lightly is about 250 calories in an hour work out.  The calories in a candy bar or bag of chips.  Definitely not enough to make me gain or lose.  It's the food, baby, it's all about the food.  Calories in, calories out.  As for the workouts, at least I am still doing something, and not being sedentary.  

Next weekend is our 25th wedding anniversary (on April 21).  The hub and I discussed going somewhere special, like Harrison Hot Springs in BC or Las Vegas.  But I checked the razor clamming schedule in Ocean Shores and there is clamming April 20th through the 23rd.  We LOVE clamming and it's getting close to the end of the season.  We are part owners of a condo in OS, it was available, so the accommodations will be “free”!  It's only a 2-1/2 hour drive so very convenient.  We don't even need to get a sitter for the dogs.  So I think it was meant to be...next Friday, we’re off to see the sea.   

My tulips are finally starting to bloom, for a while I only had leaves.

Since we are gone next weekend, I hope the weather this weekend is better than last (it rained hard for 2 days straight).  I need to get out there to clean up and prepare my garden for planting this year’s tomato crop.  Another place I don't have patience...my garden.  I want it tidy and organized and I want it NOW! 

I hope everyone has a nice weekend...and that we have some SUN!