As I suspected when I wrote my last workout recap, my workouts this past week started off a bit rough but got better throughout the week. I am still dealing with nausea from medication, but it’s slowly getting better. And my monthly nausea ended on Wednesday. So I didn’t have as bad of a time with nausea in my workouts. Of course, my life is never easy and I did something to my hips on Friday so my last workout of the week was a bit tough with not being as flexible as normal. But that was much easier to manage than nausea.
And again, I did only old Orangetheory at Home workouts for my workouts. It’s funny how much work I put into finding other workouts to do and then I ended up not really using them. But I like having options and maybe there will be a day coming up where I just need a big change. But having something familiar and almost comforting to me is what I really need right now.
I’m still struggling with making my workouts hard enough or as difficult as I think they should be. I’m trying to not let that get to me because I know that I’m not in normal circumstances right now. I still would love to have some improvements in my workouts while they are being done alone and at home, but if that doesn’t happen then it doesn’t happen.
But I finally feel like things will be turning around for me somewhat soon. California just announced the next group of people who will be eligible to make appointments for vaccinations. And it turns out, I fit into the high-risk group that will be a part of it. I believe you can start having appointments to be vaccinated in 1 month, but I’m not sure how it will be done since it hasn’t been announced just yet. But I have already talked to my work to make sure that it won’t be an issue to take time off whenever I get an appointment. I’m not going to try to make sure my appointment is after work unless I have a lot of options. But I’m guessing I will just have to take whatever I can get.
Assuming I can get the first vaccine by the first week of April, that means I will be able to get the second vaccine by the end of April. And it takes about 2 weeks after the second vaccination for your body to build up all the antibodies needed to be safe. So if that ends up being the timeline I work with, by mid-May, hopefully I will be fully vaccinated and that will mean I can start trying to go to the outdoor OTF workouts! Or maybe by then, the studios will start to reopen (but I don’t think they will). So I might only have a few more months of home workouts before I can be coached again!
I seriously can’t wait for that. There are so many things I’m looking forward to having in my life again, but my workouts are a big part of it! I will have to work on figuring out a schedule once I have an idea about what timeline I’m working with. I’m guessing I will have to do afternoon workouts because it will be hard to do them before work when I have to drive to a studio that is further than I’m used to. But honestly, I don’t care. Whatever it takes for me to be able to do outdoor workouts, I’ll do it!
Knowing that this time might be coming to an end has been motivating me. I’m still struggling and I’m not going to deny that. But I’m also trying to be a bit grateful for whatever time I have left doing workouts at home. This is something I never thought I’d be able to do, and I’ve made it work. It hasn’t been as good as I would have liked it to be, but it’s better than nothing. And I need to recognize that is an accomplishment and something to be proud of.
But I still can’t wait until I have my coaches kicking my butt and forcing me to feel like I’m an athlete and a badass.
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