Good Morning! 😉
I’ve been trying to get into the groove of getting up earlier than 10 am and finish my workout before 10 am. So far, so good! It feels good to be completely done thinking about my workout before 9:30 am and leaves so much more time and energy to tackle other tasks/ sit on the deck and drink iced coffee. Ahem.
Anyway, getting up earlier means that I’ve been seeing lots of other runners/walkers/dog walkers/bikers and I have found that these early(ish) exercisers are super friendly and always smile and say ‘good morning!’. Whenever I make eye contact with someone else that is exercising early, it’s like this silent “I rather be sleeping, but I’m glad we’re in this together”…if only for a second. Is that too over the top? It feels like the Secret Club of Morning Exercisers. Haha 🙂
Not to say that I don’t make eye contact and smile when I see other exercisers later in the day, but I have found that people often glance over and then look down or straight ahead. Morning people are just so much cheerier…maybe because they know they’ve gone further and accomplished more before a lot of alarm clocks have even gone off. At least that’s what I tell myself 🙂
Workout
Today’s workout was all cardio! I’ve been focusing on weight training a lot in the last couple of weeks and I’ve been missing my pure cardio days, so that was today. I ran to the gym with my gym buddies (Mae and Hannah), which was 2.5 miles, then completed 3 miles on the treadmill (5 minutes @6.5-7.0 pace, then 20 minutes of intervals- 10 seconds each of 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8 and 20 seconds of 6.0, then 10 minutes of walking and jogging) and then 1.5 mile run home.
Total distance: 7 miles.
Phew, my legs are toast!
Breakfast
By the time we got to running home, breakfast (and a huge jug of water) were on my mind! Mae and Hannah were talking about smoothies, which sounded great, but I was ravenous so I went with the usual. Even better because I got to eat with dad!
Steel cut oats, Puffins, cottage cheese, raspberries, banana, blueberries, peanut butter
I have work later this afternoon, but I have a few tasks to tackle before then.
When do you workout? Morning? Night? Never? Try saying ‘good morning!’. It will make someone’s day!
Have a fantastic day!