Having taken a duvet day yesterday which,by the way, is highly recommended, I have been so busy today that this is the first opportunity I have had to sit down and write! I had coffee with one of my oldest and dearest friends this morning. I have known her and her beloved sister for over forty years, and no matter where we are in the world the three of us always come together as though no time had passed at all, we have experienced most of our first times together and I would like to think we will still be together to experience our last times. Out of the many topics we chatted about two things stand out, the first being that she asked me what my blog was all about having not read it herself, but been informed by another friend that, having read parts of it, he did not understood what it was about or what I was trying to achieve by writing it. I began to wonder whether this was because he was male and just didn't get it (although I have quite a few male followers) or maybe these are just erratic ramblings that don't make much sense to anyone else. I started explaining to her why I was doing this and found it quite difficult to put into words - I'm not giving diet tips or advocating any particular diet and I'm not recommending an exercise regime so thinking about it, I'm really just talking more about my personal journey to health and fitness as apposed to the hard facts of the process, does that make sense? After going into raptures about this my girlfriend looked at me quizzically, which she often does because she thinks most things I do are pretty daft and shes probably right, but also being the same size ( which is reed thin) that she was at sixteen after three children, she doesn't understand the agony of weight gain!
The other thing that happened was that she produced a variety of photographs of us ranging from the age of about eighteen to twenty-two, seeing these youthful wrinkle free faces smiling back at me made me realize how much time we wasted on ridiculous insecurities in those days instead of being grateful for our young beauty - HOW I WISH WE COULD TURN THE CLOCK BACK!! Anyway, I know that's not possible so I'm going to work with what Ive got - and work I did this afternoon! My husband came home early to announce that he was taking me on a cycle up the mountain in Tokai. My first reaction was to point out that it was pouring with rain but I was told that these were excellent cycling conditions. I realised half way up the first hill exactly how much training I have to do in order to complete this race we are doing in September! Quite frankly, we could have been in a snow storm and I would not have noticed - I was too busy gasping for breath and trying to block out the red hot burning pain in my legs - Good God - it was awful! It was only on the way down the mountain that I began to notice the beautiful trees and fresh smells after the rains and the slight mist rolling in around us. I was feeling quite proud of myself until my husband informed me we had only covered a twentieth of the route! One has to start somewhere and it just makes me more determined to do better next time!x
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