NO MORE EXCUSES
TODAY IS THE DAY~ TODAY I have all the good intentions of getting up early and going for a run in the cool early morning sunshine of fall. But then, it’s like cool- like really ummm ok, more like… COLD and a little bit dark and creepy. And I don’t really feel like it now. So I sort of convince myself that driving kids to school and taking the garbage dumpster allllll the way down to the end of the driveway counts towards some physical effort~ more than say, laying in bed for example…. some people just do that I rationalize. But then, there are these other people…… that get their lazy butt’s up and go out climb mountains and stuff………hmmm. I just need to be some kind of happy medium. So I try a few practice runs up and down the stairs to the washer and dryer (located in the basement)…. not bad….. Then I think that if I can just maybe run to the corner and back that would be a great starting off point. So I lace up my shoes (and my fancy running outfit- that have purchased several times thinking that if I had something cute to wear- I would work out more….) and head out- I make it to the corner okay and this is where I decide to keep going and I decide to keep going for awhile until I don’t feel like it anymore. Which turns out to be a half of an hour or something. Not a huge amount of time but a start and it felt good~ it felt good to actually do it instead of do everything to avoid it and not have to come up with 100 excuses about why I didn’t. And guess what? I don’t remember if I was cold or hot and no one commented on my outfit? Seriously- how could they have not noticed~ :)
That was about a year ago~ I run almost 4-5 days a week now. I love it- it keeps me sane.
