Darkfoxx 13: Because Dragons

[darkfoxx]

Ok, so no theme this time. I thought about a Friday The 13th thing, but finding appropriate/fitnessy memes sounded exhausting. So: dragons. Dragons are always good. Plus, this way I get to search for dragons every morning before jumping into work. Booonus! Deviant Art, here I come!

 

 

Overarching Goal

 

Hasn't changed - still trying to get my body comp where I want it through tight-ish metrics + building strength to be able to do all the OCR-related things I want to do. I realize I *could* accomplish this goal faster by adhering to stricter weekend metrics and incorporating more intense workouts, but I'm lazy at heart - let's just stick to doing what I can do and to upping the baseline intensity level, rather than attacking a heavy-duty something all at once and fizzling out because no one's watching/my program has ended/I lose interest.

 

 

Goal 1:  Fitness

 

 

I actually didn't do bad on my 'choose your own adventure' workout schedule last challenge, much to my shock. So … I'm going to go down that track a little further. I still want to work on doing an unassisted pull-up, I think the Spartan 30 challenges are kind of fun, the Spartan daily WODs are good for me (but intimidating), I love me some nerdy bodyweight routines, HasFit is fantastic, and I want to continue on with the mix of cardio/bodyweight/light weights/specific movements/yoga I'm already doing and see where that gets me. I'll be pulling from: Spartan WODs, HasFit, Neila Rey, and other places as I see them - my yoga class, for sure.

 

Upcoming Races:

 

Merrill Down N' Dirty OCR - October 5

 

Color Run 5k - October 18 

 

 

 

Goal 2: Metrics

 

 

Metrics make me happy and they work for me, so I'm sticking with them. As a refresher, my metrics are: 100 grams or under of carbs, 70 grams or over of protein, under 100 grams of fat and around 1500 calories. Water is the recommended by FitBit 64 ounces, and on the weekends I like my step count to be over FitBit’s recommended 10,000. I track food with My Fitness Pal and exercise, sleep and water with the FitBit Flex. Weight and BF are tracked with my FitBit Aria scale. FitBit. I also use a combo of FitBit + Runkeeper + Zombies, Run! To track my workouts, though I'm thinking of dropping Runkeeper and who knows what will happen when iOS8 and the new Apple Health comes out. I'm sure I'll be jumping at least some of these ships in favor of that, if it's as awesome as advertised.

 

 

 

Goal 3: Get Your Shit Together

 

 

I need to. I'm a grown-ass adult with responsibilities, short people that might notice if I no longer exist, and family members that totally don't want to deal with the headache of slogging through my shit should I croak unexpectedly. I should have a will made out. And know where all my important documents are located. To this end, the goal is to fill out the Get Your Shit Together stuff + enter all my other important crap into Evernote so I can actually find it (like my marriage license and the deed to my house - which may or may not be in a box at the bottom of one of my closets. Maybe I'll finally get that fireproof box my hubby has been wanting for years.

 

UPDATE: GYST LIST

 

Week 1: Will

Week 2: Living Will

Week 3: Life Insurance

Week 4: Money

Week 5: Details

Week 6: Personal Items

 

 

Other Goals

 

 

• Whittle more things out of the house - I'd like to clear enough off of a bookcase to get rid of it. This is going to take action, rather than planning.
• Continue the leaving my house on weekdays to at least think about being social trend.
• Work on the damn scarf I've been knitting for 2 years now. Finish before Spring?
• Continue streamlining my wardrobe/getting rid of shit I don't need/getting things that are too big for me altered so they're not wasting space/get the shoes I need cobbled cobbled.
• Drag the clothes I'm donating out of the closets they came out of out the door and to the donation place. Even if that means I have to backpack clothes out in batches every week on the way to the grocery store. Quit being lazy.

 

This is a nebulous goal - more of a goalposts goal. I'll be reporting on progress, but won't be including this in my overall grading scheme.

 

You know what? Screw that. This is a real goal. Worth up to 5 points.

 

 

Internal dialogue edit: This is not a hard goal to accomplish in the grand scheme of life. Quit being lazy, dammit. Risk Internet failure less than a perfect grade. Now drop and give me burpees. 

[darkfoxx]

Darkfoxx 13: Because Dragons Grading

 

Overarching Goal

 

Hasn't changed - still trying to get my body comp where I want it through tight-ish metrics + building strength to be able to do all the OCR-related things I want to do.

 

 

How Has This Challenge Cycle Gotten Me Closer To My Goals?

 

I kind of feel like a coasted this challenge workout wise. I didn't really push myself too hard, outside the OCR and Color Run I did and I feel like I spent a lot of time in recovery mode. Maybe its the change in seasons, maybe its the chill in the air, or the fact that NF has seemed on the deserted side -- whatever it is, I need to get right the F over it before next challenge and get my ass back in gear. 

 

Other goals wise, I slacked a bit on metrics and paid for it and I got incrementally closer to having my paperwork ducks in a row + the noise of things for the sake of things quieted a bit. A tiny bit. 

 

 

What Needs Improvement?

 

All of it. This was not a BAMF-Y challenge for me. I type this on a Monday morning, as I'm falling asleep at my desk because I feel like I never recovered from last week this weekend. This is a crap trend and I need to do better. Can't go through the Winter like this. 

 

 

Goal 1:  Fitness

 

Choose Your Own Adventure-style  workouts 4-5 times a week, plus walks (preferably long) on the weekends. Merrill Down N' Dirty OCR + Color Run 5k in October.

 

Week 1: A. I got my workouts in, though I feel like I need to push a little harder - essentially taking 4 days off from working out + only doing easy yoga 1 day is not going to get me where I need to go in any kind of quickness. I have all this week to go hard before I need to rest for my next OCR -- and I plan on kicking it up an extra day. Friday workout, here I come! 

 

Week 2: A. I did good here. Didn't get my last "formal" workout in, but I did other things to make up for it. 

 

Week 3: A. Did some great yoga and my last OCR of the year. Score! 

 

Week 4: I'm counting this week as a success. I got 3 solid days of yoga in after my mud run and had a nice vacation filled with a little toddler lifting. A. 

 

Week 5: C. I got three workouts in, but I was lazy a day and need to take a hit for that. That's not the kind of precedent I want to be setting.

 

Week 6: I'm going B here. The hubby and I were both exhausted all weekend and I had some dizziness-related drama to deal with on both Monday and Friday. Fun stuff. I also had zero desire or motivation to work out. 

 

 

 

Goal 2: Metrics

 

Metrics make me happy and they work for me, so I'm sticking with them. As a refresher, my metrics are: 100 grams or under of carbs, 70 grams or over of protein, under 100 grams of fat and around 1500 calories. Water is the recommended by FitBit 64 ounces, and on the weekends I like my step count to be over FitBit’s recommended 10,000.

 

Week 1: A. This week was good overall. I wasn't perfect over the weekend, but I managed to balance my alcohol & carb intake fairly successfully.

 

Week 2: A. I wasn't perfect this weekend, but I made a concerted effort to not go crazy - and I didn't, at least not on carbs.

 

Week 3: Whoo. Look at all that weekend red! There *was* some method to my madness, though. Saturday's carb overage was half planned - I opted for the quinoa bowl because my calories and carbs have been low all week and I wanted to make sure I had enough juice for Sunday's run. Especially because of being worried about healing in time. Sunday was post-race indulgence. I was alone, so I nommed everything in sight -- and I didn't get my customary post-race steak, because a: I was alone, b: I was freezing to death, and c: I took the train. So, I had half my bun and half my fries at brunch. And they were delicious. And I was so slam-ass full from lunch, that I went to bed uncomfortably full. Seeing as I went to bed uncomfortable and the Flax bar turned out to be a dumb decision, I'll rock a B for the week. 

 

Week 4: I'm counting this week as a whole lot of win. I wasn't perfect while on vacation, but I did damn good - it helps that the friend I stayed with has my exact taste in food and I never have to worry about having non-compliant meals while I'm there, since they eat mostly paleo as well. Whoo! Whoo! A!

 

Week 5: I'm going C here. A red weekend and I remember reds at the beginning of the week, too. 

 

Week 6: B. I had some off days and some non-protein-having days. I paid for them. 

 

 

Goal 3: Get Your Shit Together

 

Fill out the Get Your Shit Together stuff + enter all my other important crap into Evernote so I can actually find it..

 

Week 1: Will: A. Did I get my will written, power of attorney assigned, and living will completed? Yes. Have they been signed yet? No - waiting to do it all at once. 

 

Week 2: Living Will: A. Did I get my living will written, medical power of attorney assigned, and funeral stuff completed? Yes. Have they been signed yet? No - waiting to do it all at once. 

 

Week 3: Life Insurance: B. I have life insurance already, and did half the research on whether or not I want to add disability. 

 

Week 4: Money: I have a budget I don't strictly follow, I have a general picture of my financial situation, and I have no buffer but plan to start re-building it once we get the little bit of debt we have built up on the credit card paid off. No set plan, but we're chipping away at it as we can. We also have IRAs and I signed up for Acorn (an iPhone app that lets you roll over your rounded up change from purchases into the stock market). So, overall, I'm not looking too shabby here. A. 

 

Week 5: Details:  I'm going C here, too. I did some work but I didn't finish. 

 

Week 6: Personal Items: A. This goal is something I do anyways, so I didn't really need to do anything additional here. 

 

 

 

Other Goals

 

Reduce Household Crap

 

Keep Attempting IRL social

 

Work on knitting scarf

 

Continue streamlining & fixing wardrobe

 

Get rid of the clothes I've decided I'm going to donate

 

Week 1: A. I made some progress here. Some things made it out of the house, even more got bagged up to go, I culled a few more pieces from my wardrobe, worked on my scarf, and was even social. Look at me, leading a full life and shit. 

 

Week 2: A. Making progress here, albeit slowly. This week, I worked on my scarf, decorated 2 walls, got rid of a few articles of clothing, and donated some bags of stuff.

 

Week 3: A. I continue to chip away at these larger goals. 

 

Week 4: I socialed my ass off this week. And I identified a few bags that can go to Goodwill. And I got mommed. A. Bam.

 

Week 5: A. I did some work this week - not a ton, but some. 

 

Week 6: A. Even though I only did a tiny bit here, something is better than nothing. 

 

 

Cycle 13 Scoring: -5 total points: + 1 STR  + 2 DEX  + 1 STA  + 2 CON  + 2 WIS  + 2 CHA

[Fonzico]

In before content!

[darkfoxx]

Lols. See what happens when work gets in the way of my NF posting? 

[darkfoxx]

Dragons have been rendered - post info is up!

[Fonzico]

Love it!

 

Totally holding you accountable for your nebulous totally legit and happening "Other goals"

 

And following your lead with the donations thing... I've been accumulating them for over a year now, they really just need to get taken in! No excuses.

[Yllek]

Awesome goals! I can sooooo relate to your other goals. I have boxes of sale/donate items since I moved to my place 2 years ago!!!! Maybe I will use you as motivation to finally get rid of it. Good luck!

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[Hiroro]

Yayyyy dragons! Looking forward to continuing beast-ness here. 

[BlamedCat]

Totally stalking

[Skywalker]

Your my metrics rolemodel (hero).

Another good solid challenge

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[darkfoxx]

ZOMFG I FOUND A DRAGON CREATOR

 

 

And now my life's been eaten. 

[darkfoxx]

AROO! Just signed up for race #1 in the 2015 season -- I'm doing a Spartan Sprint on Saturday, May 30 -- with the hubbs.

[Hiroro]

Ooooh that's so exciting! Pulling the trigger on a race registration is always a thrill. After doing all these Spartan WODs I bet you'll kill it.

[Beaucastle]

Yea for dragons!!!    Subbed.  Looking at how you set your points up and your challenge goal format.  Its very clear and straight forward, I just may have to copy it.  

 

Great Goals... I love the dragons!

[Fonzico]

Look at you, becoming a chronic racer! That's wicked! - you just keep getting more and more epic.

 

Also, a dragon generator is just way too much awesomesauce. I am deliberately NOT checking it out, because I need to get some work done

[darkfoxx]

I've been distracting myself with tons of coffee + thinking of designs to help plan a friend's daughter's room .... note: neither of these is what I actually *need* to be doing right now. 

 

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Buuttttt ... 

[DarK_RaideR]

I keep thinking about this for some reason...

[darkfoxx]

HaHaHaHa! The Internets are fantastic

[Ryoko]

Hi! New Ranger here...subbing as we've got pretty much the exact same goal of putting together a death plan. Good luck on all your goals!

[darkfoxx]

Whoop! Whoop! Wood Elf Rangers FTW!

[GingaNinja]

DRAGONS! Good luck!

[ShadowLion]

Awesome. Dragons. In.

 

And the generator....Oh, no, no, no. Not this week.

[darkfoxx]

Week 0 Weekend Update

 

Friday

 

Per usual, walked to the grocery store - got 6,808 steps in. 

 

Managed to hit my metrics (barely - I was dead on on carbs), despite going out for ramen for dinner. Win!

 

 

Saturday

 

Started out great - morning grocery shopping/hot coffee sipping/strolling alone in the city. Then we hit the rain (and weren't prepared) after an hour train trip to see Rockaway Beach & the Honey Festival. Boo. Got my steps in (15,449), even though all I *really* wanted to do was curl up in sweatpants (that I don't even own) + watch Netflix. 

 

Food was fine (a touch over on calories but good on carbs & protein) - had a bunless burger with half an order of fries at Shake Shack for lunch and london broil lunchmeat sandwiches in chard leaves for dinner. Wanted chips desperately; didn't have them. Had cherry tomatoes and roasted mushrooms instead. 

 

 

Sunday

 

Weather was much better. Got my steps in (10,218) while cruising a craft fair. 

 

Food was on the disastrous side - started the day with chicken and waffles; which wouldn't have been the end of the world, but the hubbs wanted Mexican for dinner. I ordered my favorite carnitas pork shoulder in salsa verde, which I've eaten while doing W30 with no problem. Well, today my order was half freaking bones. So I had a few bites of the beans and a tortilla. Which turned into 3 tortillas and about a quarter of a cup of refried beans. 

 

Oh, and the Pumpkin Spice Latte. Totally Didn't Help. I had a grande pumpkin spice latte with 1 pump of syrup, soy and no whipped cream -- 23 grams of carbs. Better than the 50+ a "normal" latte is, but not as good as the 15 grams of the skinny vanilla variety. Now that it's out of my system, I won't be doing *that* again. 

 

So ... calories were fine; carbs were 42 grams over; fat was fine and protein was fine. 

 

But on the plus side, I got a jump on my carting clothes out of the house goal, so there's that. I think I got some work done on another goal, but I'm suddenly not remembering ... 

 

Anyways, going into this week strong and fortified with leftover lunch meat for chard sandwiches! 

[Fonzico]

Well, at least you got the evil PSL out of your system before the *official* start! lol

 

And chard sandwiches FTW! Sounds so yum.

 

Whoohoo! Time to doooooooo this!

 

Inspiration: One of my favourite movie dragons! (If this doesn't give me away as having grown up in the 90s, I don't know what does)

 

[DarK_RaideR]

*appears*

 

Then we hit the rain (and weren't prepared) after an hour train trip to see Rockaway Beach & the Honey Festival. Boo.

 

 

*disappears*