My Journey With Health And Fitness – I Did It!

Well turned out to be a bit of a surprise today. They had predicted a very warm day today but when I went out for my 2 hour walk at 9 am I was pleasantly surprised that it was relatively mild. This was a great relief since the past few days have been smoking hot and made my workouts quite challenging. Still, I got through them.

Over the past several weeks I have gone back to running. I started out doing intervals but if you recall I quickly got bored with the training so just started doing full runs. After getting myself going on 5 km’s it quickly morphed into 8 km’s. It wasn’t hard to get back to it as I have been doing so many fitness classes that my endurance was already pretty good.

So we are once again at the trailer and I promised myself heavy workouts each day. The past 2 days I did 8.5 km runs each morning. I then followed up with a 2 hour walk and then a shorter walk in the afternoon. In all I have averaged 4.5 hours of exercise a day which is the self-commitment I made. This is definitely not the time for me to slack off.

But then came today. I had been mentally working myself up to this for the past week and I was determined not to let myself down. And so I started my run this morning at my usual somewhat slow but steady pace. I’m fortunate that the route I take up where we have our trailer is fairly flat. There are some nasty blind corners so regardless of the temperature I wear my reflective jacket until the sun is fully up. I don’t know why on these runs the first half is always the most difficult and today was no different. However, once I passed the 2/3 mark I knew I was going to get it done.

Yes, today was my first 10 km run in at least 9 months. I had promised myself that today was the day I started testing my endurance again and obviously it is back. Ok, I admit my legs are rebelling so no running tomorrow but regardless, I DID IT!

What I am most proud of is the fact that I have been on this new journey for about 9 weeks now and I am still pushing myself even when at the trailer. I’ve got 5 more weeks to go before heading back to Mexico and I am pretty sure my friends there will be surprised by how effective my determination has been.