exercise_every_day | Friday, January 4, 2013, Check-in

Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post! Hope everyone is having a great day!

If you are posting for the first time, or new to the community, please review the community's standards, below.

1. Mod or another community member will post a Daily Check In post, for those who prefer to note their daily activities in response to a prompt. Please only place exercise comments here.

2. All members are encouraged to post daily independent posts about their activities, if they prefer that to a prompt.

3. Please place any NON-EXERCISE comments in independent update posts and behind a cut. Some people are sensitive to discussion of diet and nutrition. That is integral to many people's exercise activities, so I want members to be able to discuss that, but for those who are here strictly to log exercise, I would like them to be able to avert their eyes.

4. Everyone is encouraged to introduce themselves, discuss their exercise goals, and post updates on their activities. "I finally made it to running a mile!" or "I kicked up into handstand today!" are updates that we all want to hear about and share! Please put long posts and entries involving diet and nutrition behind a cut, though.

5. Aside from intro posts and injury announcements, please try to include an exercise update in every post.

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semielliptical

Run: 35 minutes

resolute

I'm just going to pat myself of the back here, for a moment.

Three years ago, I would not have wanted to walk my dog in this weather. It's 16 F, and the sidewalks are shoveled but all still have snow and ice on them. I would have been afraid I would slip and fall. Fall, and hurt myself, maybe. Or merely fall and be unable to get back up off the ground.

Today I put on my workout clothes, and extra layers, and heavy winter gloves and a hat with ear-flaps, and I went for a mile run. I wound through my neighborhood, up and down hills, on my way to the mechanic's to pick my car up from the shop. When I got to the mechanic's, I was warm but not really even winded. I stopped for a latte at the shop across the street, then drove my car back home.

Y'all, I don't even know how to explain how WEIRD this is. Weird, and cool, like moving to a new country. Or a dream. I keep wondering when this will collapse in on itself.

But ... but it won't. I've done this. And it's real.

No replies necessary, honestly. :) I just don't have a lot of places I can babble about these things, to people who have signed up to listen. So y'all get to hear it.

:)