Short entry before going to bed
Alright, well! I managed to keep up with my physical activity this whole week! And I made some progress as far as running goes. It's nothing amazing, really, but considering my poor breathing capacity and my lack of any exercising these past few years, I'm still happy. Since I don't have any running equipment, I just go outside with my keys and my iPod in my jogging pockets (and that jogging is too hot for summer weather, point being: I really should buy equipment if I plan on keeping this up), and look at the time I spend running by basing it on the songs I'm listening to. I also know that the street I run on is roughly 550m according to Google Maps. So that's what I use to know how I'm doing. Basically, since that street is cut in half by a crossroads, I usually take that as my stop, and do half of it running, the other half walking, and do that a couple of times, up and down the street. I went running on Tuesday, Wednesday and today, this week, which really isn't much, but I'll try to do more next week (I think if I can get to 5 days a week of running, it would be great). Today was my best by far: augmenting my running times little by little, I was able to run for 4 minutes straight, which is my personal record (don't laugh, I warned you my level is as low as a beginner's can be!), and managed to make it all the way down that street for the first time ever. This is very encouraging, so when I go running on Monday, I expect to be doing no less than that, and try to add in more and more slowly, until I can go up and down that street running, which will mark my first kilometer! Once that milestone's achieved, I'll probably try to find other running spots in my town, although it's far from easy, especially considering the summer sun (the strong point of that street is that it has quite a lot of shade). So today, I got up to a grand total of 12min15s of running total (with breaks of walking). If by next Sunday I can reach at least 16 minutes of running total, I'll be more than happy. I even want to aim for 20!
As far as exercising goes, I haven't noticed that much progress so far. It's really tiring very quickly, which I guess at least shows that what I'm doing is effective on my body. I feel like it's never really much, since I never do more than 20-30 minutes a day (without counting the stretching), but I think if I keep it up this whole month, my progress will start to show. I'm not lifting any weights, just using videos on YouTube to get ideas for exercises that mix up a little bit of gymnastics and muscle workouts.
I've also tried to pay a little bit more attention to what I eat, so that I can stay energized, eat stuff I like, not binge, and still stay under my budget. I'll try to do weigh-ins from now on to see if it has any impact on my weight.
The down side of this week is that, well, I barely drew. I started an acrylic painting of a tree from Totoro, but man, it's such a fucking disgrace, I can't even begin to describe how ugly it is. I'll still try to finish it, and keep practicing, because I'd really like to get better, both with acrylics and watercolor, but wow, I'm really starting from a kindergardener level.
This week, I have a friend visiting me, he'll be staying at my place until Thursday morning. We've been talking for a few months about starting a comics project together, revolving around Nepalese mythology and imagery to convey neuronological phenomenons (think stuff like out of body experience, alien hand syndrome, sleep paralysis...). We have a whole lot of documentation on the subject and I personally always wanted to work with traditional Nepalese or Tibetian artistic styles and mythologies. We'll try to brainstorm a little and see where it takes us. Despite his being here, I hope to still get my workouts done, which is asking for quite a lot of motivation on my part, but I hope I'll manage. I know in any case I'll go running, but it would be great if I could also find the time for my other exercises.
As far as exercising goes, I haven't noticed that much progress so far. It's really tiring very quickly, which I guess at least shows that what I'm doing is effective on my body. I feel like it's never really much, since I never do more than 20-30 minutes a day (without counting the stretching), but I think if I keep it up this whole month, my progress will start to show. I'm not lifting any weights, just using videos on YouTube to get ideas for exercises that mix up a little bit of gymnastics and muscle workouts.
I've also tried to pay a little bit more attention to what I eat, so that I can stay energized, eat stuff I like, not binge, and still stay under my budget. I'll try to do weigh-ins from now on to see if it has any impact on my weight.
The down side of this week is that, well, I barely drew. I started an acrylic painting of a tree from Totoro, but man, it's such a fucking disgrace, I can't even begin to describe how ugly it is. I'll still try to finish it, and keep practicing, because I'd really like to get better, both with acrylics and watercolor, but wow, I'm really starting from a kindergardener level.
This week, I have a friend visiting me, he'll be staying at my place until Thursday morning. We've been talking for a few months about starting a comics project together, revolving around Nepalese mythology and imagery to convey neuronological phenomenons (think stuff like out of body experience, alien hand syndrome, sleep paralysis...). We have a whole lot of documentation on the subject and I personally always wanted to work with traditional Nepalese or Tibetian artistic styles and mythologies. We'll try to brainstorm a little and see where it takes us. Despite his being here, I hope to still get my workouts done, which is asking for quite a lot of motivation on my part, but I hope I'll manage. I know in any case I'll go running, but it would be great if I could also find the time for my other exercises.