Not long ago an e-mail was circulated at work asking for people to join in the round the Bays fun walk. I did this last year - in fact have done it several times but..... have never actually finished it! Not through any insidious reason other than the first couple of years I thought I'd done it and turned into Madills Farm for my BBQ reward. Last year I did it with my daughter and we had to stop in Mission Bay and get picked up as we had to be somewhere later that afternoon. So this year, I signed up myself and my husband do walk the course - and my daughter came too. We fully intended to train of course but various commitments (especially coming home from work tired) interfered. Nevertheless last Sunday we joined the throng of 70,000 people and set off at quite a pace. Within minutes, literally, my hips began to ache, my arthritic knees were throbbing and my ankle felt weak. A couple of kms in and I was tripped up by a woman striding across my path - I managed to avoid hitting the ground but stumbled and wrenched my knee and foot. Now I finally had an excuse to stop......... but I didn't. I actually felt committed to finish the course. I reviewed my desired completion time from an hour and a half up to two hours - I just wanted to break the 2 hour mark. With the help of my husband and daughter I limped across the finish line at just under two hours. I had actually really enjoyed it but mostly was proud of not giving up and making excuses. It certainly made me realise how I need to focus more on my exercising and not be so ad hoc about it but I was really thrilled with completing the 8.4 km course.
I can't say that being part of System Slim motivated me to enrol for the walk - but I can say that what I have been learning in the last few weeks enabled me not to give up when I probably would have done previously.
So my next two challenges are the next 5 kilos weight loss and maybe even thinking about doing the 10km walk in the Auckland marathon.....
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