A little progress.. makes you feel great!!!

Monday - after work - time to run home. It is about 6k and after a long day it takes all my energy to even get out of my school clothes and into my running gear.  And this week I was going it alone... so it just had to be done!   Off I set.. in the dark.. heavy legs.  HOWEVER.. it actually felt ok! it really did.. I know! I feel a bit apprehensive even saying the words.. "it felt ok!"  Not very fast, just at my own pace, but I made it home and was not dying - and that surely must be progress!!!

And then on Wednesday the terror of the Gym, in January, with MANY people there!  I dropped Dylan off for his tennis lesson and walked into the most crowded space I have ever seen.  This did have a big downside. I had to wait for everything. Every machine, treadmill, even floor space.. but what was worse, that while I was on the machines, people were waiting for me! So I was being watched... horrid.. just horrid.  I could not do my normal moaning and groaning as I lifted the weights or went up and down while doing the plank. I had to look serene and fit - and as most of you know, I do not carry that off very well!!!
The only positive was that I did do 5 mins on the treadmill on a really steep incline in preparation for the hills at Park Run on Saturday - and it felt ok!

I have also signed up for a 5 mile trail run on Mothering Sunday - with Sarah by my side. A ladies only run, through Fynn Valley -  http://farmhousefive.co.uk  - have a look if you fancy joining me!

No spinning this week. Yep.. I gave in to the feeling of YUCK.. the weather was foul, I was tired, so I cancelled.  I do not really know what is happening to me though as at about 7.30pm I felt really guilty, and then cross with myself that I had not gone.  Me, cross, about exercise! Something really must be happening to my 46 year old brain and all this training!

After the disappointment of Thursday, I woke up ready for Park Run this morning - ready to tackle those hills. However more disappointment to hit. Cancelled in Christchurch Park due to icy conditions.  And yes.. that crazy 'I am sort of quite liking this exercise' brain kicked in again, and rather then stay in my warm cozy bed, I took a short hop to Kesgrave and really enjoyed the flat, bright and sunny (albeit cold) course there.. bringing home the fastest 5k run I have done for 18 months - 34.06 mins.  So I came home delighted!

So into another week I go.  It is so true that if you make it part of your normal routine, it becomes easier to manage.  If you take each session as it comes, no matter how you are feeling, at the end you can still say you have done it. And even if the weather is foul - you really should still do it - as my good friend Sarah said a few weeks ago "What are you going to do Sam if it is pouring with rain on the day of the Triathlon?!"  Wise words.. and so true!!!