A Tale of Five Stones Too Many

My brother has friends over this weekend, which was nice as they got my mind off things. However this did curtail my doing exercise on Saturday. By Sunday the guilt had built up a enough that I pulled myself away from socialising for an hour or two and did an exercise video, which wasn’t difficult by any means but just pushed me enough to get me sweating without exhausting myself.

Without Jessie I’m loosing a guaranteed 40+ minutes of exercise  a day because I really can’t face walking around the surrounding area without my little black dog. I’d probably spend half my time choking down tears as everywhere will remind me of her. Case in point - I am now avoiding the village shop, as whenever we popped up there to get something Jessie went with us. Somehow (in retrospect I can’t believe me managed to train her to so this) she would patiently lie down and wait just outside the door for us to come out (getting in everyone’s way, but then she looked so cute no one minded :D).

So because of the no walking currently I’ve also started going to my local swimming pool - Today was the first time and I went with the early riser session although by habit I am not an early riser, I thought that would be good for me also. So I did 45mins in the pool (in the fast lane - yay, I still have a good technique!) came home had breakfast…. and then fell asleep for 2 and 1/2 hours. Whoops! With swimming, because you don’t get so hot as the water cools you, I find I accidently push myself quite hard. This, I imagin, is all to the good except that: 1. I fall asleep at the drop of a hat and 2. my muscles now ache! Maybe next time I should try and get more than 6 hours sleep before getting up to go swimming then I won’t be facing No.1

Filed under: Exercise, Successes, Whoops! on June 29th, 2009