There’s a lot of big stuff going on in my life and that’s been true for pretty much all of 2024. It’s been a year.
Work has been especially demanding in 2024. And so too has family. None of that is stuff I feel the need to work through on the blog but it has been relentless, demanding, and stressful as much as I love both my family and my work as dean.
The good news from a fitness point of view is that I managed to just keep on trucking and doing my thing. I certainly think all the exercise helped me stay on a more even keel.
There’s another member of the senior university leadership team who works out at the same gym and often we see each working out before our 830 am meeting. It helps doesn’t it? We both agreed that it does.
Also, I’m going on research leave in January.
For the non- academics reading the blog, you need to know that’s not vacation. Instead, it means my work switches from a mix of mostly administration with a little bit of teaching and research to mostly research with a little bit of grad supervision on the side.
I’ll be at the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ for the first part of the leave and at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics for the second part.
Okay, here’s the 2024 numbers.
Strava
I’m not quite back to my goal of cycling 5,000 kilometres yearly, but I’m working towards it gradually. To achieve this, I’ll need to make some significant commitments, such as participating in a bike rally, going on cycling holidays, and scheduling weekly long rides. A lot of my city riding isn’t recorded on Strava because I don’t always have my Garmin with me.
224 in 2024
My goal was 400 workouts in 2024 and I almost made it. So close! I’ll end the year at 393. No stress. 393 is pretty good. Number goals work for me as motivation but I don’t feel too bad if I don’t make it precisely all the way.
Physio
I started the year with twice weekly physio, then weekly, and then every two weeks. I still do physio at home and that’s going well.
Sleep
As much as I begrudge sleep (life is so short, why must we spend a third of it asleep?) I an definitely a person who needs eight hours or more sleep a night. I have friends who claim to get by on four or six hours of sleep but that’s not me. Sarah can work through the night when she needs to but again that’s not me. I was very happy this year with my sleep habits. Mostly I avoided 6 hour week night sleeps and 10 hours a night on the weekend. I was pretty consistent.
GoodReads
It’s not strictly speaking a fitness goal, but reading fiction is definitely part of my overall wellbeing. My goal is to read 25 books a year and, thanks to audio books, met my goal.
Onward and upward, bring on 2025.
