This Week’s Accountability Report
Exercise:
Six out of seven days
Weight:
74.1 kg
Progress and Adaptability
I’ve been struggling with winter a bit lately. It’s not very cold yet, and we don’t have snow where I live (yet), but it’s dark. And it’s rainy. And my body is struggling to adjust to something, or a number of things.
Getting out of bed early and snapping to attention isn’t as easy as it was one or two or three months ago. Feeling full and satiated throughout the day isn’t as easy either. Lately, I’ve become hungrier, and more tired as well. Part of me thinks it could be my body adjusting to this new weight. Part of me thinks it just as something to do with the season. Nevertheless, hungry or not, tired or not, waking up early or not, I’m still finding the time and the ways to get my workouts in.
As I do so, I find more and more that I’m aware of the boundaries that I’ve broken this year and the one’s that I’m moving past. Each day, it seems, I’m reminded of a time not too long ago when I couldn’t do what I’m doing now. Every run I take I pass a point where I used to stop and walk, where I used to take a pause, where I used to call it quits. These days, I just keep going.
Maybe it has something to do with the season. Maybe it has something to do with me nearly completing a full year of training. I don’t know, but recently, despite struggling, the thing I find myself most aware of is my progress.
And it feels good.