Day 288 – Week 42 – 42 mins

Forty two minutes strength and stretching in the can this morning before breakfast.

Really difficult to get myself up, but so damned pleased with myself afterwards knowing I didn’t have to spend all day thinking about it.

I had an email the other day from a reader who shared with me that she has been to the gym throughout January and is really enjoying it. In fact, she says she is becoming addicted to exercise.

And I ask myself why isn’t that happening to me?

I can categorically say that I am NOT addicted to exercise in any way, shape or form.

Yes I feel good afterwards, but that is only because I know I have done myself some good and it is out of they way for the day. I don’t get the big endorphin rush people talk about.

Is it just me?

Do you have to have some kind of addictive personality to become addicted to exercise?

What do I need to do to make it happen?

These are the questions I will ponder as I run around the park tomorrow morning….

Suzi

Day 287 – Week 42 – 42 mins

Back on track today with a 42 minute run in the park.

But boy it was cold. I was a good 20 minutes into it before I could actually feel my fingers. And this was at 2 o’clock in the afternoon – can’t think how cold it would have been in the morning.

And you know, I just felt SOOO much better after I’d done it. Why oh why can’t I remember how good this feeling is when I’m trying to wriggle my way out of it.

Suzi

Day 286 – Week 42 – 42 mins (1)

Clearly this is not going to be a stellar week!

I didn’t feel so brilliant when I woke up this morning, and could only contemplate a desultory one minute of stretching…

As an aside though – this is day 286 – a number that I love and adore. It is the number of the house I lived in during my teenage years. I loved that house. In my bedroom I had a piano and a working fireplace….that’s pretty special when you are a teenager.

Anyway, onwards and upwards,

Suzi

Day 285 – Week 42 – 42 mins (5)

Only five minutes on the bosu this morning. The weather is rubbish, I am staying up too late working, and my heart is not in it this week.

The problem is that I am working on building another website, and I just want to be doing it EVERY MINUTE of the day…so when I wake up in the morning, I think to myself, I’ll just do a bit of work, and before I know it, it’s time to go my proper job, and I look around rather guiltily and realise I haven’t done myself any jigging about.

Anyway, this will pass, and I will be full of motivation again sometime soon…

Suzi

Day 284 – Week 42 – 42 mins (1)

Well, I fell off the wagon today…

It was a combination of a very cold morning, and an intense desire to be extremely lazy. I told myself that given I have exercised steadily for about ten days, my body probably needed a rest, but actually I’m sure that’s not true. I just didn’t want to go out in the cold!

So after a serious discussion with myself, I decided that I’d settle for just a minute on the bosu, and be done with it!

Here’s to laziness from time to time….

Suzi