It really does get easier!

Whenever I've joined the gym (on two occasions and it's lasted a week) or whenever I've gone to exercise classes people have always said it gets easier...I never believed them, after all, that one session almost killed me and I didn't enjoy it one bit! I could never understand these people who went to the gym everyday and enjoyed it...what was there to enjoy? Why would you want to put yourself through that everyday?!

But....with my new found energy, enthusiasm and motivation, I can see where they're coming from. It really does get easier. Yesterday I didn't have time to go on a long bike ride so I decided to go round the block. At the end of the ride there are a couple of banks to go up. They aren't steep but they're quite long. Last year I did the same bike ride and I couldn't even make it a quarter of the way before I had to get off and push all the way home, but I managed to go all the way around taking no breaks yesterday.

Tonight I went for my run and managed to get a little further up Lime Kiln Bank. I'm going to keep running up it until I can run all the way! And hopefully in time I'll get quicker too. Because I know it will get easier!

And with all this running, I think I need something to aim for...something to train for. So in April 2011 I am going to run the Mow Cop Killer Mile. It's exactly what it says, a big steep lane that is exactly a mile long. Lime Kiln Bank has nothing on this - I'll have 550 ft to climb.

Hopefully in 8 months, running will have got so much easier that it won't be a killer mile!