Wednesday, June 9

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

I was really struggling with writing my performance appraisal at work this morning. Shocking, I know, for as much as I like to talk about myself! And of course, today is the deadline. I have only known about this for months. Heaven forbid I leave myself a little buffer of time. I am the Queen of the Procrastinators. Sheesh!

It is a pretty quiet week in the office, so I decided to go for a walk at lunch. I checked my Fitness Forecast and it confirmed that it was the perfect day for a vigorous walk over the noon hour. (Relatively) low humidity? Yes, please!


Besides, Gray's Lake is within walking distance, which makes for an idyllic backdrop for my mid-day sweat session.


Really, how could I go wrong?

My lunch walk rocked and my trusty heart rate monitor told me that I burned 500 calories. Score! I am pretty sure Weather.com was wrong. My walk wasn't a 9. It was a 10!

It also must have jarred something loose and I was able to fly through the rest of the my review. Hurray! Let's hear it for endorphins!

Tell me...
What helps you mentally "jar something loose"?

4 comments:

  1. Nice! I wish I had the opportunity to walk in the middle of my workday :/ Running definitely helps to unjar things, and - strange as it sounds - coloring!

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  2. For me, long, slow breaths - plenty of those. I'm curious which heart rate monitor you use or recommend. New to your blog so I'll look around to see if you talk about it another post.

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  3. Hana, thanks for stopping by! I use a Polar F4 heart rate monitor. I like it, but if I had to do it again, I would probably get a Polar F6. That model shows time, heart rate and calories burned on the display. The F4 only shows 2 of the 3 at the same time.

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  4. Hey "a little bit fit", your husband and I enjoy going for a drink at the mile to jog things loose. Unfortunately, those beer calories don't do much for our physique :(

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