Back to the Gym

Today I went back to the gym after a 5mth absence. What made me go back? I have no idea. I have been feeling quite good about myself lately and suddenly have a lot of motivation, so while that is happening I will make the most of it. I have also been talking to my friend Nic about the City to Bay fun run which is this Sunday. He is running the 12km but I would only do the 6km as it would be better as I haven't done any training as such.

I decided I would only use the treadmill and not push myself too hard as it had been a while. I had 90mins before I would have to go pick Torin & Siobhan up from Kindy so I thought I would walk for an hour. In that hour I walked 5.5km. I was quite happy with that considering I only went back to the gym today.

This evening, after dinner, I decided to walk round to Nic & Robyn's house. Their place is exactly 6km from our house (according to Google Maps). They left some stuff at our place on the weekend so I decided to take it back but walk there. I gave myself an hour, yet google maps said 1hr 18mins. I made it there in exactly 1 hr. Robyn told me off for walking to their place in the dark but I felt ok doing it.

After 1 day of walking I am feeling really good about it and can see I am going to enjoy getting back to it tomorrow.

I have also decided to blog my walking as another source of motivation. If I give myself a distance to walk and see how long it takes me to walk it. I thought of different distances I could measure the amount of walking I do against, walking to the moon, around the world but I settled on Australia as it seemed a more realistic goal.

I am not going to give myself a timeline at this time but maybe as I get into it more I will start giving myself daily/weekly goals. I am hoping to actually achieve this goal and I invite any one that reads this to encourage me when it looks like I am starting to falter.

Distance travelled so far: 11.5km
Distance left to travel: 25,748.5km