Yeah yeah, I know, you've heard it all before....
However, this time there is a true motivation to see it through. As you have probably gathered from the absence of posts, the couch to 5k did not last....
Since my last post we also had a sudden house move to deal with, in lock down, whilst I was shielding, our new place needs a LOT of work and things have been slightly chaotic! So there you go - they are my excuses and I'm sticking to them!
Moving on....
Restrictions are lifting, shielding is over and I am allowed out! Whether it is that or a mid-life crisis I will leave for you to decide! I just had a strong feeling that I need to DO something so the health kick has re-started!
I started with the 7 day soup diet to kick things off 🤢 This was badly timed though as the last day coincided with election day. Now, as some of you may know, I historically spend this day as a poll clerk in Broughton Astley with our same fab little election team. This year was slightly different as our usual station was out of bounds due to covid so we were stuck in a new station which really did not meet the comfort and standards we are used to! I digress, my point is the last thing that is possible on election day is healthy eating! It is such a long day (in this year's case 4.45 am Thursday to 4 am Friday 😴) and comfort food is essential! Baking done it was a day of Noggin, Shortbread plus cakes provided by the other poll clerk's wife. Friday and Saturday were also spent counting and eating.... resulting in the 10 1/2 pounds I'd lost the previous week reducing to 6 pounds but hey that's still an achievement! I've since been (mainly!) On slimming world and gradually losing the lockdown pounds so all good!
The next step - exercise. So this bit is still to start....and this is where the motivation and inspiration hit!
Again, maybe down to a mid-life crisis, even though I love my job I've felt for a while that I could do something more to physically/directly help people and have have had a couple of attempts at joining the police, unsuccessfully! I've been keeping a casual eye out and on going through my group notifications on FB, there it was. 'Have a go day' at our local fire station. This was it! If the police don't want me, maybe I can burden the fire service instead🏭🤣
In all seriousness though, why not? What better motivation is there than to do something that will give something back to your community! I mean, ok, most people's first thought of a fire fighter is still a strapping young man, not an ageing, overweight, completely out of shape woman with dodgy lung capacity but so what?! You never know unless you try! Which is how I found myself outside the Co-op chatting to 2 fire fighters about whether or not I was completely crazy to even be contemplating this! They convinced me I wasn't so that's it. I came home and watched the videos on the tests I'd have to pass - quietly confident on 4 of them and no surprises at my lack of confidence on the equipment carry/fitness test! I'm sure I felt my lungs shiver and shrink even more just watching it! Still, I registered for a remote introduction session tonight and for the earliest physical session in Saturday (hoping that everyone else would go for the later times leaving just me to make a fool of myself on my own with no witnesses!).
I felt even more inspired and motivated after the zoom session tonight and am feeling equal measures or excitement and dread for Saturday! Excitement for the challenge of being able to train and do something so worthwhile whilst still being able to keep my current job and dread that the say may prove that I am physically not capable. But, if you know me, you will know how determined I am, I don't back away from challenges and if there is something I want to achieve, I will do everything I can to achieve it! Every conversation I have had over the last 48 hours has consisted of positivity that the required fitness level can be achieved and I will be helped to get there.
Whether I make it or not, at this stage, I don't know but the journey to try and get there starts now.
Bring it on!
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