I’m exhausted.  Like, properly exhausted.  I had a full work day today with another tomorrow, and the temperature is pushing high twenties (degrees C).  For some of you, that probably doesn’t sound too hot, but for us Scots a hot day is 21 degrees C and this is just the start of it.  It’s meant to just get hotter and hotter.  There government is at the highest warning level for heat so the NHS and care homes etc. can prepare - there’s already been lots of people passing out on public transport because of the heat and the elderly are especially at risk.  On top of that, our power supplies are at risk too because they’re not designed to cope with the heat we’ve been getting so there’s been a lot of power cuts (but more in England than here).

Crazy!

I’m going to my first ever weight watchers meeting tomorrow with one of my good friends.  I’ve only ever done online before and I think I really need the personal support and the more face-to-face accountability.  I don’t know how long my friend will stick with it, but I’m going to do my very best.  However, I’ve had the strangest feeling the last few days that I’m self-sabotaging (over eating, under exercising) though I’ve no idea why.  I just really feel I need someone to step in and just take control for me, tell my what I need to be eating etc. hence the WW.

I just want it to start!  Wish the meeting was tonight.

So I’m freshly showered after my exercise today.  Yoga?  Good!  Walk to and from run-route?  Lovely!  Body weight workout with sit ups and lunges?  Tough but feeling strong.  Run?  Bloody awful!

Perhaps I should have taken into account the fact that the boys giving me advice on running have been playing rugby since they were seven and they’re 21 now - that’s a lot of years.  I seriously overestimated my fitness level, I practically died out there!  It is HOT, the hottest weather we’ve seen this year in this country.  I have more freckles than I did when I left this morning!  But seriously, it was awful.  I ended up running 5 lamposts and walking 5-6.

That left me seriously scared.  How am I going to do this 5 times a week?!  I can’t give up, but by gosh this is not fun!