My Journey With Health And Fitness – Getting Back To Basics

I realized recently that it was time to change out my runners. When my shoes start to show they are losing tread I know it is time to replace them. For me because I alternate between 2 pair of shoes that happens about every 6 months. I went to a New Balance store (my husband went to the outlet centre in the US before he retired) and picked the model I wanted. Then it was time to pick the colour and I surprised myself at choosing a kind of dusty pink for one of the pairs. Seriously, I don’t normally do pink but I kind of liked those ones.

Now that I have reduced the amount of walking I am doing (I’ll post later about how that is so not true) I still wanted to kick my training up a notch. I don’t know, maybe it is because for the last 6 weeks I have been asked to keep increasing my goals but I know I just want to keep pushing myself. And so I have decided it is time to go back to running. No, I have never really enjoyed it but a year ago it was certainly keeping me fit.

Because I haven’t done much of a run in quite a while I thought I should start slow. I do at least 1 two hour walks each day so decided doing 30 minutes of interval training would be a good start. I also decided to start slow though am willing to build up rather quickly. Yesterday and today I did intervals of 2 minutes running with 1 minute walking. I’m pleased to say that it went quite well so I’m going to do that for 1 more day and then bump it up to 3 and 1’s. Pretty sure it won’t be long before I am easily back to doing 6 km’s. I just need them to repair our promenade because running to the pier and back works out to exactly 6 km.

Right now I just feel the need to stretch myself to do more than just keep to my comfort zone. I am so reinvigorated after doing the 6 week challenge that I want to keep going. I know I can get back to my goal weight and fitness level and I am determined to do so.