Hooray for progress.

After years of running, I've come to know both my limitations and my reservations. What my body can do and will do, but more importantly, what it doesn't want to.

Getting back into running after a break is always a hurdle for me. Lifestyle is one thing but the fitness, or lack there-of always makes the second or third run a real psychological challenge. My body is still hating me from the shock treatment on Monday. It's sore and tired as I haven't really rested well this week. And somewhere into the first KM, it tells me, screams at me "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!". HAHA!

This is usually where I wonder if I want to go through all of it again. The grind, the soreness, the heat, the flies. Do I really want to do this just to stop down the track and repeat the process?



Hell yeah!

Faltered?

I meant to get out today for a lunch run (when else?). However, I forgot about the BBQ at work today. Sausage (and vege-pattie), onion, ketchup and mustard is just too good to pass up.

Besides, I had a long work day yesterday and a late night. All excuses I know, but it's ok. I have my gear at work now and tomorrow is on for sure.

In the meantime, here's an awesome video I came across a bike forum I am a part of.



Awesome.

It's begun...

It's both amazing and depressing how a body works. It will take a lot of punishment and over time, accept it as the norm. I've always believed that being a fit person is very much a lifestyle thing.

It's so much more than what you eat or going to the gym (which I don't and will not do).

5 months. That's how long it's been since I donned my trusty runners and ground the pavement. I've done some pretty bad things to my body all this while. Alcohol, bad food and in the last month or so, cigarettes. In this time, I've gone from running Yarra + The Tan + 35-floor stair climb to a very painful jaunt along the yarra to Swan St Bridge and back.

That's barely 3km!!! I still made it a point to go through with the push-ups and crunches but I think it will be a slow and painful grind back to what it once was.

What really hit home was the physical ailments I've been experiencing of late. Sprained muscles, sore backs and general lack of energy. I don't believe it's age as I'm not old.

It goes to show that survival of the fittest does make a lot of sense. Sit still and you die. Applies to almost all facets of life.

Hopefully I'll be doing a quick and solid 5k by then end of November so I'll be mentally ready to start riding hard. Yes, I still haven't bought a bike but I'm pretty damn close.