I made a New Year's resolution earlier this year to sleep earlier. I also set a running goal for myself. #1401058
I thought I'll write up monthly posts to summarize/update how I did each month. These posts can also serve as a form of accountability.
In terms of sleep, I had violations in 7 nights out of 31 nights in January. Again, hard cutoff is 11:30pm. So, any bedtime after 11:30pm is a violation. I did 200 push ups the following day after each bedtime violation. The following list is a record of the violation. It lists the night of the violation and bedtime that night:
- Jan 8, 12:15am
- Jan 15, 12:30am
- Jan 18, 11:45pm
- Jan 21, 1:00am
- Jan 25, 11:50pm
- Jan 27, 12:00am
- Jan 31, 12:30am
In terms of running, I barely met my goal of running 100km each month, because I didn't run much earlier in January and I also did not go on any long runs (20km+). I also set a "nice to have" goal of hitting 1000 miles by the end of the year, but that requires an average 133.33km of running each month. That means I need to pick up the slack and run extra in later months if I'm ever going to hit 1000 miles. Total 101.8km ran in January. Anyways, here is the running summary.
Marathon training is also sort of underway, since race day is May 3rd, so there's also the alcohol ban. I did pretty good in terms of not drinking in January. Only had one 500mL can of beer and one whisky (two shots worth) in the month of January. I'll see if I can improve that alcohol consumption to zero in February.
How about you guys? Did you work on your New Year's resolution(s)?
I decided to track my weight and steps, but had no specific resolutions or goals about either. Just paying attention has me making some gains.
I indexed both things to my post holiday levels.
Nice correlation with fatness going down when activity went up. I'm not going to ask the baseline for fatness, because that's kind of personal, but what was the number of steps for your activity baseline?
I was only around 6k steps at that baseline, so I’m still well below a good level.
It’s been very wintry since that peak, which stalled out more progress.
Important thing is to start moving little by little, day by day. Consistency is key.
That's a beautiful freakin punishment, HAHA
Haha. Thought I needed some consequence for sleeping after hard cutoff bedtime or else I would just keep violating it and not think much of it. Turns out, not wanting to have sore arms from a bunch of push ups is a pretty good incentive to go to bed early.
I had a "violation" a few days ago but otherwise pretty decent around my 0:33 average
My hours slept is consistently pretty much around 8 (never set an alarm, so just whatever my body wants)
Woah! 3am! and numerous 1:30am. I guess it's alright if you don't set an alarm and let your body have as much sleep as it wants.
My problem is that I wake up at 6am every morning, and used to go to bed at midnight or past midnight most nights. So, I'm constantly tired and lacking sleep. The most unhealthy thing I can do to my body.