So it looks like this is a year of challenges for your humble narrator. I have been trying to find little things along the way to challenge myself like drink more water or park as far away as I can from my office,but now I have gone full throttle!
My year now looks something like this:
August: a midnight ramble 25 mile bike ride through St. Louis at night.
September: a 100 mile bike ride to support MS in Illinois.
October: I will enter my first Tough Mudder competition 12 miles of mud and obstacles to challenge your physical and mental state.
So all I have to do now is get myself as prepared as I can for these different challenges, and I have a plan!
I quickly noticed that I'm not a runner or jogger , ok I walk a lot but at my own pace and that will have to step up (pun ).
So this week I started walk/jogging my goal being about 2-3 miles, I can not think of reason why I would need to jog any further than that at any given time. This is what I have discovered so far.
1. I need to learn how to breath when I jog
2. I have muscles in my thighs that I was unaware of until this morning when I awoke.
3. there is nothing graceful about me when I jog..yet
I also know that anything is possible if you stick with it, how many people quit playing guitar because of the F chord?!
This might be my mid life crisis or maybe turning 50 woke me up to the fact that there is more to life than working and sleeping. I don't mind muscle aches from working out, I do mind aches and pains from not using my body.
I will post more as I go along at this time I can jog for about 1 minute maybe two...I am just starting and like a friend recently said to me "your a man who makes things happen". I like that thought that I am the one in charge of what I do.
Peace and Love all
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