When I went in to see my Retinal Surgeon on Tuesday, Hubby asked, “Now that she has pretty much recovered can she run a 10 K Road Race?”
“Sure” replied the doctor.
“Great, ’cause she couldn’t before.” Hahahaha!
The point of this rather bland comment was that Hubby felt it was time for me to get up off my nice comfy chair and get back out moving around exercising.
Now, I believe that exercising is a 4 letter word! One that should not be uttered in mixed company! But as I could feel my legs and arms turning to jelly, I knew that the time had come to get back to work on actually moving my body in a direction other than the refrigerator.
So, this morning after breakfast, I paid some bills, put on my walking shoes, filled my backpack with a bottle of water, the mail to be mailed, my keys, and my cell phone, grabbed Greta, put on her little harness and leash and walked the mile and a quarter to the Post Office.
We stopped once so I could give Greta a nice big drink of water. And once to answer the cell phone when Hubby called to tell me how Fritz was very upset at our departure. (I actually think he was calling to check up on my progress!)
We dropped the mail and picked up our mail. Today we received about 10 pounds of it. I kid you not! Four heavy magazines! Plus a ton of junk!
Then we walked another mile and a quarter back. I made Greta stop for some water half way back, and the little minx refused to drink. So I tossed it on the ground, whereby she threw herself down on it and rubbed her body on the wet pavement!
Greta and I are now back. She has collapsed on the floor in front of the air conditioning and is sound asleep. What a sport. Me? Well, I’m sitting here watching “What Not To Wear” while I jot this all down, sipping a large glass of iced tea, feeling very proud of my accomplishment.
Now the real key is doing this daily. Hmmm! I wonder if I can actually do that?
Way to go! I believe that you can, try to stick with the same time each day.
You can take a different doggie with you each day! Sometimes I wish I had a dog to walk, but that won’t happen in this house. Good for you getting out like that!
Unlike our dear friend Lauren above who is an exercise maven, I too believe that the word exercise can be evil. I do yoga (the relaxing kind) once a week and between 2 20-minute dog walks a day and walking to and from the bus and work for my commute, I generally call it a routine. I wish I had the motivation to be better but quite frankly I just don’t. Great job today and try to do a little at a time. Something is better than nothing.
blah…to Michelle…LOL! She’s lucky I love her!
I try to make it out onto my treadmill every other day, so if you did that daily…well I’d be impressed!
If I don’t walk Wolf each day, even when it’s hot, he makes life miserable…so I have my built in whip cracker!