Firstly, and completely unrelated to the post title, I've turned word verification back on. Sigh. Silly spammers.
Now, back to the real post. In just a few days it will be 2010. That's a momentous year. For a start, it's a round number and they're always satisfying... but more than that, it's the year in which (dun dun DUNNNN) I turn 40! I find it hard to believe, but it's definitely true. My birth certificate confirms it and if that were in doubt the fashions my parents were wearing in my baby photos would give it away.
Still, 40 is not so bad, right? I mean, I've hardly achieved any of the things I expected but I've achieved many other completely unexpected and wonderful things so I'm more than willing to call it even. This is not like a movie where I find a letter to myself, written when I was 15, speculating on what life would be like for me at 40 - on the whole I think I'm fairly satisfied with my life. However (yes, there's always a 'but', even when I disguise it in a fancier word) there's one thing that's been nagging at me. I am overweight and unfit. Okay, that's two things but they're related. I have spent a large part of my adult life promising myself that some time REALLY SOON I'll get my act together and start exercising and eating better. Hollow promises, as it turned out, but that's about to change.
I cannot - I will not - start my 40s feeling unhealthy and self-conscious. I'm working really hard on things inside my head; it's time to work on the rest of me too. I mentioned recently that I've started the C25K running program and that's been going well. It's early days so I'm not feeling any fitter yet but I'm really enjoying achieving each day's goal. I want to keep going. No, I'm not going to turn into one of those scary, wild-eyed exercise fanatics. Seriously, don't you know me by now?? That's NOT me! I do, however, want to be healthy and fit.
Fit by 40. I have 11 months to go..
Now, back to the real post. In just a few days it will be 2010. That's a momentous year. For a start, it's a round number and they're always satisfying... but more than that, it's the year in which (dun dun DUNNNN) I turn 40! I find it hard to believe, but it's definitely true. My birth certificate confirms it and if that were in doubt the fashions my parents were wearing in my baby photos would give it away.
Still, 40 is not so bad, right? I mean, I've hardly achieved any of the things I expected but I've achieved many other completely unexpected and wonderful things so I'm more than willing to call it even. This is not like a movie where I find a letter to myself, written when I was 15, speculating on what life would be like for me at 40 - on the whole I think I'm fairly satisfied with my life. However (yes, there's always a 'but', even when I disguise it in a fancier word) there's one thing that's been nagging at me. I am overweight and unfit. Okay, that's two things but they're related. I have spent a large part of my adult life promising myself that some time REALLY SOON I'll get my act together and start exercising and eating better. Hollow promises, as it turned out, but that's about to change.
I cannot - I will not - start my 40s feeling unhealthy and self-conscious. I'm working really hard on things inside my head; it's time to work on the rest of me too. I mentioned recently that I've started the C25K running program and that's been going well. It's early days so I'm not feeling any fitter yet but I'm really enjoying achieving each day's goal. I want to keep going. No, I'm not going to turn into one of those scary, wild-eyed exercise fanatics. Seriously, don't you know me by now?? That's NOT me! I do, however, want to be healthy and fit.
Fit by 40. I have 11 months to go..
10 comments:
Fit by 40! A fantastic goal.... You can absolutley do it!
I feel a cyber party will be in order Novemember next year :D
I'm checking out that link because I have always wanted to be able to run.
Methinks you are 10 more then me... I hit the big 3-0 in July. Scary days, huh!
@Swift Jan - a cyber party! That's a fantastic idea. :)
@Scurrette - yep, I'm turning 40 in November, so I'm nearly 10 years ahead of you. I found 30 a whole lot more scary than I'm finding 40, actually...
great plan!
That's a great goal - I'm right behind you!
Literally BEHIND you. I want to start C25K, but I know that I'd bomb out now due to childcare and bra-related issues. When I get some regular time to myself and decent support garmentry, I'm IN!
Maybe I should throw down the challenge for people to get fit by MY 40th birthday, not their own (since that's a while away for most of you).
Kate, when I finish C25K on the treadmill I'm hoping to do the whole program again outside in the scary real world, which I'm told is a lot harder. That's about two months away; if you've managed to organise child-care and support garmentry by then we could be running buddies! Okay, virtual running buddies, but still... it would be fun.
yeh I'm doing it on the treadmill too...
Day 1 week 1 down...
11 months to get fit. Sounds like a plan. Maybe I should work on it so that I could WALK to Melbourne for your 40th birthday! Wouldn't that be cool?! But for today can I just stay in bed and read a book? Honestly, I'll start tomorrow. I promise.
A while back when I started talking about perhaps running a marathon, my wife said I should do it "before I got too old" (40 being the implied ceiling). That motivated me to start training, so I ran my first marathon a couple of months after turning 39. Not that I'm one of those wild-eyed exercise fanatics that you excoriate..
Hi,
Interesting blog. Have a look at
http://imperfect.tv/drummer-boy-09/ - show it to Nicky - perhaps David and her could do this at a church one christmas!
Guess who? Worse jokes than you and not at all particular about words or order, Not popular with pastors and lives on the edge of reality.
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