We all have rituals in our lives, don't we? Rituals are the granular level of routines and routines ease us through the day, the seasons and our lives. Well mine, anyway.
Until the end of 2012 my morning start consisted of getting up, having a wee, going downstairs, minimal hellos, meds, mud drink, water and make coffee. Sitting down on sofa to drink coffee. Fiddling with phone -turning on wifi if not already on by an earlier riser, more fiddling with phone, Email, Noom. When necessary by the schedule of the day go for a poop and fiddle with phone - Dead Trigger. Shower, get dressed, warn children that they need to be ready in 5 minutes, get dressed, and take kids to school.Come home think about breakfast, turn on computer start work.
I've started to address my slothfulness since the winter holidays: In the spirit of Dead Trigger, I have signed up to Zombies, Run! and in particular Zombies 5K with the hope that a training app with a storyline will keep me interested enough to maintain the new ritual of a morning run on at least 3 days a week. Well, I have managed up to week 5 Lesson 1 in 9 weeks. So I have sort of kept it up - I have had nearly 2 weeks of for half term and poorlyness, and a few days resting before that from having overdone something. But substantially I have kept it up and I look forward to it. It don't think it is a ritual, let alone routine, yet but it is getting easier and I can see that one day it I will feel that it's happened.
I don't just want to be fitter (hence, the running), I want to look and feel better and become healthier. So I have also tried to establish other exercise patterns with somewhat less success than the running. To date, since January, I have dabbled in weights, yoga, somatics, challenges, and strength-training. While there has been something Of interest in many of these, I have in recent weeks settled into the latter. I am building on the split training exercises which allow me to concentrate on upper body and lower body on separate days. Syncing with the running then, I can do upper body when I get home from running (while my blood is till up) and focus on lower body on the following day. Now let's see if I can keep it up sufficiently to become part of the every day!
