Exercising Frustrations

 

Last week was a stressful, frustrating, swear-word inducing week. It had nothing to do with training or traveling, it was all work related. It now has me re-evaluating my retirement plans and possibly moving it up by 3-4 months.  The new management/managers just dumped a bunch of new responsibilities on me that are outside the realm of my initial job responsibilities. While it is not anything I cannot do, it is just tasks that I thought I had left behind me over twenty years ago. They have nothing to do with office administration. I voiced my displeasure and then faced disciplinary action. The thing is the write up was for under-performing my job – but everything they wrote up was the new job tasks that I had not even been officially assigned. They explained the new job duties  after that. I was already struggling to stay motivated to come into work each day. I have less than six months to my planned retirement date – one that they are all aware of. It completely feels like I am being pushed out early. The thing is, it was not unexpected as I had mentioned to co-workers when the management change was announced that I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to push me out early. They did the same to a former co-worker four years ago when she was reassigned to that department just shy of her 67^th birthday.

Workouts benefited this past weekend though from my frustrated state. Saturday, I did 2000 steps on the stair-master, an hour on the treadmill with over thirty minutes straight at 15% and then the rowing machine for 25 minutes. Sunday, I skipped the stair-master as they were already in use when I arrived. So I went right onto the treadmill – 5-minute warm-up, 55 minutes at a continuous 15% then 15 minutes at -3% and a short cool-down. I then did close to 30 minutes on the rower.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will start my mid-week workouts to get in better shape for the Manitou Incline in September. I plan on concentrating on the stair-master. I plan on doing at least an hour mid-week and then continue with my two-hour workouts on the weekend.

No more excuses.