View From the Bushes

My health plan goes something like this: I'm not going to worry about what I eat, but I have to get plenty of exercise. Thus far I've mastered the first part of the plan, but I haven't had a lot of luck with the second part. Actually, I pretty much gave up on trying to do anything healthy near the beginning of this year. Looking at it, I knew that I was going to be so busy with DireKobold that I just wasn't going to have the time. So rather than stress about my expanding gut, my rising blood pressure or my 500+ cholesterol (j/k, it's not above 500, though it is pretty high) I was just going to take a few months off. Having done that I feel the need to hop back in the saddle, so to speak.

I say the saddle because my preferred method of exercising is cycling. A very close second is squash, but not only is it fairly time consuming, it's also quite expensive. Winter time is not the best time to cycle, but I do have an exercise bike, so if I could just drag my butt out of bed in the morning I could just exercise at home. Going from Daylight Savings Time back to Standard is a great opportunity for just this sort of thing. The change means that I'm already waking up an hour early and so all I have to do is find the motivation to exercise. Unfortunately, yesterday and today it just wasn't there.

Part of it is making sure that everthing is ready to go when you wake up. Exercising just by itself is hard enough to get motivated for without having to track down some gatorade or find some clothes to exercise in or even drag the exercise equipment into the right location. So I'm going to give it another shot tomorrow and report back then. Hopefully, the need to report back will inspire me to at least lie about my exercising which has to be close to actually exercising. To end with I thought I'd toss in a cool link, this is a satellite view of the California wild fires which was taken Monday.

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Ross