Battle of the Bulge

Hmm, I know everyone puts on weight over Christmas but when your Christmas eating starts around the 20th December and continues until the 5th January, that's a lot of bad (but goooood) food consumed. Therefore I am declaring war on the bulge this morning. Goodbye lazy Sue, hellooooooooo Marathon Woman!

So my attempts at getting fit were derailed yesterday by a) my horrible car being in the garage yet again and messing up my plans and b) my lovely dad took me out for food and pool after work. Now, unless you count pool as a sport and therefore practice as 'training' (fair play if you do), I didn't train yesterday. However, hold the press, I did go for a run this morning for the first time in a couple of weeks. Hurrah!

5 miles, about 55mins, walked once for about 30 seconds. Fairly happy with that. The last time I went I walked three or four times which is ridiculous. I have plenty of reserves about my person to run the whole way, I am just lazy! Or, more accurately, I give up too easily and need to become mentally stronger. Time to dig out those sport psychology books methinks.

I can't say I enjoyed the run this morning but I'm glad I went. It would also be a lie to say it energised me for the rest of the day because quite frankly I'm tired now and grateful to have 6 hours sitting at a desk! But, I know it has gotten me back on track and I will eat more healthily today as a result. We have another run planned for tomorrow afternoon, then gym on Saturday, maybe a swim on Sunday and then a cheeky afternoon nap :)

The other thing that struck me this morning is how fortunate I am to be physically able to run. There are many who I'm sure would love to have a young, healthy, and quite frankly rather attractive body ;-) to take out running so this morning I was counting my blessings. As well as counting down the steps until I finished.

Oh, and one last thing. During a period of insomnia in the night (obviously too excited by the prospect of running this morning to sleep properly) I came up with all sorts of exciting ideas for our fundraising event on the 25th March. It's going to be ace, put it in your diaries now.

I mean it. Diaries. Now. :D