Remembering The Time...

Sedentary lifestyle. Still lazy when I want to be though. I've learned how to now fight the cozy blues and jump into my suit of fleece in order to greet the day, to greet the sun.

I walk.

I run.

Lather, sweat, rinse and repeat.

Until I make it 5K.

The most daunting moment is not the rousing from my dreams, it is the rising from the sheets that angers me most. Stalking from my room, cursing the absence of morning sun - still creeping across the horizon from the West. Still waiting for my mind to wake up and notice that my body has indeed set in motion.

Zombie.

Time to start the music..."Play it again, Sam!" But remix it with a techno beat this time man, we're not romancing the stone we're pounding the pavement!

Stretch Heartstrong.

Allowing more time for my mind to catch up, I continue moving, or else risk a nap on the carpet and a late to work petitioner phone call.

My app guides me along the way, directing my beginnings and ends, starts and stops, runs and jogs and coolings down, even records my completed workouts - date included.

Impressive.

But most of all, I mentally and passively record them too. I push past the tiredness I feel knowing that I long for the vibration/voice prompt to tell me it is okay to walk now.

Breathe.

Still pushing through each, the now 90 second sprints blurred together with 120 second walks. As the intervals progress and I find myself witnessing the lighting up of the sky - I am rising with the sun.

Pace.

Today I was prepared to run my last cycle before cooldown, the vibration prompted me to run - I ran. Ran until I was sure that the vibration would come soon, telling me to slow my pace, to walk to rest. But it didn't. I kept running. Running until hesitantly peeking at my screen, only to find that I was indeed running on cooldown time.

I slowed down, smiled and commended silently my inside voice. The voice that said "keep going" "you can do this" "almost there"

Motivation, it was nice meeting you today. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

~Hasta Pronto.