In 17 minutes :-(. Bad! Wasn't even carrying 5kg.
I'm inconsistent. I'm not used to this jogging thing and my body is only intermittently prepared to work for me. I've learned, even if I do do under ten minute mile, it doesn't mean I've hit my aim, but if I can do it 7 days in a row, then I have.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the psychic benefits of being in fit shape: You think clearer, act quicker, have more mental time, sleep less, have less worries, your body aches less and pesters you less, you take control of your life. Writing that made me a hypocrite... it's about time I acted on some of my own lectures!
Of course not smoking, not doing drugs and hardly drinking all give me big advantages!
I need to take up swimming again, but i know i'll never get around to it, cos i'm used to it as a semi social thing :(
hmm fancy going swimming on saturday?
The answer is: Yes I very much want to, but there's a problem.
I might be doing a 22 week intensive physical training course in a month or so, which is what I'm preparing for, to pass it I need to be an advanced swimmer in addition to lots of other things.
But I can't swim!
So today I was enquiring about doing an adult swimming course, it'll cost me £40 over a few weeks. I don't know if I should go to a swimming thingy, 'cos I'd be stuck in the shallow end! And I bet the staff wouldn't appreciate me telling them, "I'm just diving in the deep end, I can't swim, if I'm not back in 2 mins come rescue me!"
So I'd love to go swimming and it was a well timed question but I don't know if it's possible :-( ... which swimming place? Any in particular? I'll phone them. (I'll be brave).
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we could do soem other exercise thing, but no running please! not yet anyways, i'm not fit enough. they have a gym, though i've only been to a gym once before.
we can talk tonight
Swimming: It's not that difficult to just swim laps for fitness, but you DO have to have a certain amount of cardio fitness to begin with, otherwise you'll be gasping for air within three minutes! Freestyle's probably the easiest stroke. Sidestroke and the backstroke are simple, too. I don't profess to be a great swimmer, but I do know how... the basics anyway. :) At least you won't have to worry about green hair or wearing a swim cap! (You might want swim goggles if the water is strongly chlorinated, though.)
You can do it, it's just a lot of painful and hard work, but it get's easier the more you do I find (I tackle cycling up a huge hill everyday and I reckon I can now do it in half the time I could a year ago, and recover considerably faster). Oh and yes, your muscles looked huge in the last picture, you looked like a doorman or something *fears you* :D.
I like pain when it's for good reasons!
I used to cycle lots too, including a series of hills... one day I'll probably recount one of my standard social stories... going down said hill, and my break cables (both of them) broke... it so wasn't fun.
A doorman? Tee hee... that photo was done with trickery and mirrors or something because I'm really not that well built!
That reminds me to buy you a motocycle helmet! (After that Sluts meet lamppost incident... *ouch*)
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