What's More Important: Work or Work-Out?

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Today I overslept, and then I had to make a quick decision: what should suffer, work or work-out? And for the first time in my life I opted for work-OUT! Because ultimately my work will suffer without the work-out.
I got up and dragged my behind to the railroad tracks... I was 20 mins late for work, but I will make up for it because I feel terrific.
Have a great day!

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Jeff Galloway all the Way

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Yesterday I ran the whole two miles. Today, because I was a bit tired, I runwalked -2 min/30 sec- and I felt infinitely better and... was FASTER.
Viva Jeff Galloway!

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I ran, I ran, I ran

Thursday, September 29, 2011

I was utterly disgusted with myself, and therefore did not blog. But enough with the whining: I am back.
I ran my 4th day to the railroad track at 5 o'clock in the morning; proof enough for me that I am serious again.
Yesterday it was difficult, very DIFFICULT, and today it was raining, and I went. (I still go to the gym in the afternoon on most days, but that does not really count, it is so "cosmetic" compared to running in the heat and all.)
20 minutes of pain - and today it was not really all that bad - and I sleep at night and the day is a breeze: I love my students and even my colleagues! Yeah!

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Inspirational Video

Monday, September 26, 2011

Yesterday I watched

Running the Sahara

3 guys running over 7 000 miles from the Atlantic in Senegal to the Red Sea in Egypt. 111 days of running. One of the men had only been running for two years prior to the expedition.
"I can run the two miles to the railroad track and back if he can run from the Atlantic to the Red Sea," and I did! (It was maybe equally hot - and humid, here, not in the Sahara - but instead of camels I saw pick-up trucks.

They felt exhausted when they arrived; I feel good!

Running every day for 111 days? Running EVERY DAY until Jan. 14? Now there is a thought!

PS. Thanks Anne for the kind post on my page; it makes all the difference!

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Starting Over

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

I am getting ready, at present at least mentally, to start a new semester, and that always gives me a chance to look at my life and tweak it more in the right direction.

Here are a few steps I will take to make it better:

1. I will park as far away as I can.
2. I will never take the elevator (which is very old and slow anyway, and I am faster when I walk; my office is on the 4th floor)
3. I will not sit down during class but walk around the hall, as an added benefit it keeps the students on their toes.
4. Pack my lunch, every day.
5. I will deliver messages on campus in person and not call.
6. Remember the water bottle.
7. Go to the gym every day straight after work, and remember it is better to spend an hour in the gym than an hour tossing and turning waiting for sleep at night.
8. Get 8 hours of sleep.
9. Look at cookies and other sugar traps as poison.
10. I will not buy junk food. (No potato chips at the supermarket, not even on Saturday when I think I "deserve it.")

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