The Wall

So, A Friend has been going running in the mornings and I offered/asked to go with him since his other running buddy was going to be ditching him to go running at night with the wifey.

"This will be great!" Flamingo thought to himself.

It'll be a great addition to the 3 times, yes count them, 3 times I've made it to the gym in a little over a week. Now all you fitness buffs out there might scoff and laugh at that measly number of visits to the gym. But for me, it's pretty fucking fantastic. So if you're of the "oh, that's nothing" opinion, you can just go and suck it! I'm feeling pretty damned good about the little progress that I have made, thank you very much!

Now, I've started off well a few times before. I just need to keep the momentum going and not have days like Friday where I completely forgot to take shoes with me to the gym...and yeah, I know some people there work out in flip-flops or whatever footwear they happen to have on, but I don't. Mainly because I do 20-30 minutes of cardio, and that is just not conducive to flip-flop wearing (which I was on Friday).

Anyhow...keeping up the momentum, that's good and that's what I need to do. Another friend told me it takes about 21 days to develop a habit...so only 14 or so more days to go and I'll have a habit (I hope...cause it would sure be nice to intentionally develop a good habit for once instead of all unintentional bad habits I've formed over the years).

So anyhow, got up at 4:00 a.m. this morning to go running with friend. He works some ungodly hours, and so needs to go early. Can't go after work either, because he works a second full-time job. A Friend, if you read this, I have so much respect for all that you do to take care of your brood (and it's a big brood too!)

Anyhow, I did it, ran about a mile and a half with only 3 or so short spurts of walking (like less than a minute or so for each walking spell...which I think is pretty good for an out of shape bird like myself). So yay for me!

Then I went home and went right into the shower...didn't even go back to bed, even though I could have for like an hour or two. Then I got into work about 7:30 a.m. Again, yay for me!

But here it is, mid-morning, and I full-on, balls-to-the-wall, break-neck pace hit the proverbial brick wall! I'm pretty sure if you look really close at the brick wall above, you'll see little bits of birdie brain matter splattered all over from how hard I hit this damn wall. Oh well, if I can keep this momentum going (we're planning on going again tomorrow morning), it'll all be worth it on the trek, cause I sure as hell don't see this being a quick little trip to my new lean, fit, hot body (ha! I can dream, right?).