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Whiney
By Administrator | January 19, 2006
I fell quickly back into the “I’m too tired”to walk when I get home from work routine and I won’t be logging any progress in time or distance for the past two days. I haven’t done anything truly physical to train since Monday - no stairs at work and no walk around the neighborhood.
The difference between this time and all my previous attempts at getting fit is that I’m not giving up here. I’ve gotten up each morning with the intent to train that day. Now I just have to work on quieting the little voice in my head that tells me I’m too tired and that I deserve to rest. I’ve worked longer and harder in the past than I do now. When my girls were young, I was much more exhausted all the time, and I still managed to exercise and lose weight. I have no excuse not to do so again.
Today I’m thinking back to the time I spent training to climb Mt. Fuji. Each morning, I would get up before sunrise and walk the neighborhoods around the base where we lived near Tokyo. I also climbed eleven flights of stairs in the apartment tower near our home to build my leg muscles. I managed to climb Fuji-san that summer and I am proud to have a climbing stick with the brands to prove my success.
I need to dig down deep within myself and find that person again. That may have been 16 years ago when I was a young wife and mother in my mid-twenties, but I know I’ve still got some of that stamina locked somewhere deep within myself. I’m going to work past my present lack of energy to find the muscle tone I lost somewhere along the way and I’m going to successfully finish that 5k on September 30th!
Topics: Health/Wellness |
