how it all ended up for me
So in the first couple of weeks, I missed 3 days, and was all gung-ho about running many/most of the miles. Sometime around the end of the second week, I was running and my ankle turned a way that wasn’t quite right. I was limping around in the mornings and then sorta okay during the day and walking actually seemed to help it. So then I decided to go ahead and run again, and halfway through the ankle really started to hurt. I took a day off, walked another day and then the next morning after that walk realized that I really needed to take a few days off. I ended up taking a week off, and then finished up the last week or so walking about 3 out of every 4 days. I stopped keeping track of it, which actually seemed to help my motivation. I’ve been going out walking regularly since May ended as well, at least 2 out of every 3 days, if not 4 out of every 5. I’ll often go longer than a mile and find that I do feel better having had the physical activity. While others in this experimonth exercize regularly already, I’ve always preferred to be a couch potato and have pretty much been so all my life, with the exception of high school when I ran cross country and track. It’s nice to be self-motivated to exercize because it’s something I want to do, rather than something I feel like I should do. I feel like overall, this experimonth was a big success for me. Not only did I continue on when I missed/failed several days, but I gave myself permission to stop and pick it back up later when that was clearly the best thing to do. Further, I feel like I’ve developed a good habit that I want to keep and will keep, which is something I’ve struggled with in previous experimonths.
