I Hurt!

Ok, after roaring like a lion, I have a confession to make.

I have not exercised for the last three days. Yup, I know... pretty sad isn't it?

But I needed the break. My body was starting to complain and complain loudly. I was starting to ache all the time and I wasn’t sleeping well as my back was so sore. I needed to take some time off to give myself a refresh boost. I’m forty seven years old, and although I have been working out fairly consistently since September, it has really only been in the last 6 weeks that I have been pushing myself almost every day and sometimes twice a day. Going from fairly sedentary to very active has kind of pushed this old body of mine :) . I guess I can’t exercise like I was 20 anymore… although I did try and likely will continue to. I AM entering my fifties in the best shape of my life.

Now I wasn’t totally sedentary this past week as I did walk 3.5 miles yesterday and it felt good. I missed my learn to run session on Monday night as I had another engagement and the ladies I work with said it was pretty hard. We are starting the 1:1 (10 minutes running total) this week. I’m worried now because I did take the last three days off that I will find it really hard tonight. But I am going to do it, and I will make it through. It’s only got to get easier right? I’m a heavy lady, well large boned is what I call myself :) and that’s a lot of impact on my legs and back. But I’m working on gaining the strength in my legs and to lose the weight so it has no choice but to get easier.

I’ll be missing the Sunday practice session as we are going away for the weekend so I plan on running on my treadmill Friday and Saturday morning so that come Monday for the 1:2 sessions, I’m not dying….

Now, my recent March new love was the Turbo Jam workouts. With this learning to run, I’m not doing the Turbo Jam as much as I’d like to but as I mentioned above, I’m kind of wearing myself out trying to do too much at once. So once I get the hang of running, I’ll be back at the Cardio Party to have some fun. I’m still doing the TJ strength training as I feel I need to ST at least 3 times a week to gain strength in my upper and lower body but I’ve not been doing the TJ cardio sessions as much :( . One step at a time…. I’m one of those people that when I like something, I just jump right in. And for awhile there (like 10 years), I forgot how much I liked exercising.

AND one more thing, I’ve totally enjoyed reading a bunch of blogs out there, it is so cool to read about peoples successes and some of the failures as I can relate to some of them. It’s a pretty cool community.

TTYL
Sandra