Sunday October 2. All by myself… literally.

Arnprior yet again. And an eerie feeling to use a 24 hour access card to let myself into a totally empty gym… change my clothes in a totally empty locker room… and start my workout in a totally empty room. Not so much as an attendant… By the time I left, though, there were other [...]

Yet another new gym. And a personal best. October 1st.

On Thursday, I noticed a sign posted at the front desk announcing that Ultimate Fitness would be closed from Friday until Monday, at which time it would reopen in a new location. In the interim, members could use the Ultimate Fitness gym in Arnprior, a twenty-five minute drive down the valley from Renfrew. Sigh. But [...]

September 21 to September 30. Catch Up.

On Tuesday, September 21, I managed a cardio session during a break from Hospice. I left my mom with both of my aunts, (her sisters), and my cousin, and headed to the gym for a quick 45 minutes. Afterward, I went back to Mom’s to feed the cats, then returned to Hospice. One of my [...]

Emotional Breathing Room

Monday September 20. Mom was failing quickly, and we all knew that the end was nearing. It had been over six weeks since I had arrived in Canada again, and exactly a month since Mom had been admitted to Hospice.  During that time,  I had spent most of my days involved in her care. That [...]

I finally manage cardio. And Hospice.

I didn’t sleep well on Saturday night, as exhausted as I was. Probably it was due to guilt from my failure to go to Hospice, but whatever the reason, I was still tired when I struggled out of bed Sunday morning. But I knew that the coming week would probably preclude a lot of gym [...]

Crash & Burn. Saturday September 17.

This was easily one of the worse days of my entire life. I came the closest I have ever come to falling apart, both emotionally and physically, and I don’t remember a time in my life when I have ever been so exhausted. Halfway through my workout, I actually felt like sitting down and crying [...]

Thursday… Legs.

Ultimate Fitness is a great place to do a leg session. I am especially in love with the leg press in this gym, as I have chronicled in the past – there is nothing like moving some iron to make a girl feel successful. Today, I managed that with Smith squats, too, working up to [...]

No HIIT, No Run… Just an Error.

Monday, I missed my HIIT session, I didn’t run, and in fact, the complete lack of cardio of any kind, especially on an interval day, is my first real error in this current cut. Frankly, not only was I swamped with obligations, but I was also in a state somewhere just this side of exhaustion. [...]

Sunday Speed Session.

Sunday afternoon, I left my shift at Hospice at 12:50 p.m., lead-footed it to the gym, found a choice parking spot (on the same street as the gym!), flew up the stairs, hit the locker room, changed my clothes and made it onto the floor by 1:05. Fifteen minutes flat. Gotta love small towns. The [...]

HIITing it @ Ultimate Fitness on a Saturday.

I did something today that I haven’t done in a very long time indeed. I did my HIIT cardio on the treadmill, running the high intensity portion, and walking the recovery. It was infinitely harder than running HIIT on the track or the sidewalk, because when you set the speed to 9 mph., you actually [...]