I’ve stopped exercising

The Big Climb started up again this year. It had been virtual for the last two years. This was going to be the real thing.

I signed up and so did several of my family, but none of us made it. A health issue (not Leuk, something else) slapped me down at the last minute so my wife and I begged out. Then my son-in-law and his eldest dropped out too.

It would have been my 6th climb. Oh, well. Next year I’ll try again.

I’ve been feeling my age lately. Well, it’s not really my age’s fault. I’ve stopped exercising… I haven’t done my 3.5-mile walk in months. A couple of reasons for that… I’m lazy, and I’m lazy, oh, and then there’s the fact that I’m lazy.

It’s the Chicken-and-the-Egg thing: have I stopped walking because I’m depressed, or am I depressed because I’ve stopped walking?

Either way, it’s time to get off my butt and get back into life.

My goal is simple: 3.5 miles 3 times/week. It’s nearly bedtime now, so I’ll hit the pavement tomorrow. To paraphrase Little Orphan Annie: “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll walk then, tomorrow. It’s only a day away…”

photo by Shubham Dhage