I mean seriously, just walking out the door everything felt better and more alive and more wonderful!
I also made a new house rule where if I am playing video games (on my computer or on the Wii) after 9:30pm on a work night, Sam should make me stop or at teh very least tell me to stop because it is after 9:30.
On my mind lately is the idea that I should sign up for a 5k sometime this spring summer. I think that it wouldn't take terribly much to get me in shape for that (even if it would take quite a bit to get me in enough shape where I think it is fun or easy and not a gritty challenge), but I need to get up off my patootie and get moving.
This spring and summer I am going to try to turn myself into a jogger like I did a few years ago. It had a great effect on my weight/physique that summer, and I didn't even pound it too hard. I just ran about a half mile to a mile a day (well jogged) and for sure covered at least a mile, even if parts of it were walked. In my mind, I don't feel like it took too long or was too hard to get used to doing that much. I just need to make sure this is the first thing I do when I get home from work, and I am way better at doing it outside than I am at doing it on a treadmill or an elliptical. I mean I even live a few blocks from a freaking beach!! If you can't enjoy running on the beach for a half mile, what is wrong with you (and in this case me). Plus at my new place I can alternate between running on the beach, running along the lake path, running on an honest to goodness running track, running through the hospital/hotel complex area, and running through crazy rich people shopping and rich people homes. What variety all blocks from my house!?
Where's Beebo?! There she is!!!
11 years ago
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I am also going to try running outside again now that the weather is better. When I lived in Portland, I could run indoors, but if I tried outside, my lungs would sieze up almost immediately. So I never even bothered to try in Moscow. But maybe here, since I can't afford a gym, and especially since I, too live only BLOCKS from the beach.
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