18.5.26 - 136 - Crawling my way back

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Apparently, according to my filofax, I should have lost 8 kg by now. Well, I don't know how much weight I've lost, but it isn't 8 kg! HOWEVER I have felt like I am now where I want to be fitness wise, and will certainly be at base camp as it were, by next Monday. I do feel so much fitter and lighter though. But it isn't 8 kg. Or maybe it is. Who knows? 

I'm feeling so much better though. This will be the fourth week of running daily. I have just added swimming regularly to the mix as well. I'm now doing 80 sit ups everyday and next week, it will be 90. 

Oisin is now doing stretches in the patio. My incredible son. 

But yes, the fitness plans are going well. And then later, I am going to do the daily plans according to the North Star.

Running and swimming have helped me to cope with so much in my life. But the best part of it is the feeling that I'm strong and getting back to the fitness levels I once had. I am slower, for sure, but I'm still running and swimming the same amount I did twenty years ago, even thirty or forty years ago. I stretch and now do squats as well. I don't overdo things. Always keep the middle path. There is no good reason why anyone would want to exert themselves to the point of destruction. There is no need to. 

Ready to leave for my run now. I run at 6.30 am which is the right time to run, I think. It's the sweet spot. 

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