Some fitness related tidbits...
As can happen at this time of year, the weekend was pretty much a train wreck diet-wise...it began with our Red Wine Friday tradition - usually a bottle bewteen Lady Snow and I - which instead became a bottle EACH. Then Saturday, the first in a gauntlet of parties that I had hoped to navigate with limited damage. Fail. Mulled wine. Rum punch. Wine. Beer. Appy's a plenty. Post-FIRE, my alcohol intake is a fraction of what it used to be...but, introvert that I am, I still find some courage-in-a-bottle to be useful in a crammed house party. That's the excuse I'm running with.
So what does this mean for my Monday workout, which I just returned from? Well, out the door went my usual Monday weight workout of chest, shoulders, triceps..with some cardio. Instead, 1100 calories burned on the stationary bike and the treadmill. Quite simply, I punished myself properly for the weekend's dietary (mostly liquid) transgressions. My approach to my post-FIRE fitness goals has been all about checks and balances and unfailing accountability. If I choose to "go wild" for a particular weekend, the reaction will be a compensatory increase in my exercise intensity until I feel the necessary price has been paid. Now, today was so HARD that it SHOULD prove to be a sort of deterrent from repeating this in the near future...this should not happen again this coming weekend. But I wouldn't rule out the next one. ;)
Starting to seriously formulate a fitness plan for the new year. Tossing the idea around of doing a full marathon in 2016. Realistically, I should probably just toss this idea into the garbage bin. :) It's not so much the race itself that intimidates...it's the huge commitment of the TRAINING that gives me the most pause.