I’ve been mean­ing to get myself back into shape for a while now. I’ve finally star­ted to do some­thing about it.
Swim­ming
I’ve star­ted to go swim­ming with Jamie on a Sunday morn­ing. We are try­ing to make it a reg­u­lar thing with Steve and Megan.
Cyc­ling
I also star­ted cyc­ling again last week. It’s been about two years since I reg­u­larly cycled. So last week I got back on my bike. I’m start­ing slowly; cyc­ling from home to the train sta­tion and back again in the even­ing, but will even­tu­ally build up to cyc­ling all the way to work. It’s actu­ally not far: 7.5 miles each way. But if I can build up to doing that every­day, I’ll be cyc­ling 75 miles a week. That will be great for my fit­ness levels.
Smoking
Although I’ve not men­tioned it here, some who know me IRL, will know that I have given up smoking. Yes­ter­day was my 29^th day without a cigar­ette and my first whole day without a nicot­ine patch. I think I have done really well and got to the low­est level patches quickly. I don’t have a patch on today either, and I am going to try to make it 3 full days without. I believe that it takes those 72 hours to get the nicot­ine com­pletely out of your sys­tem. I have come to real­ise that from now on I am going to have to be ‘vigil­ant’: like an ex-alcoholic, I’m going to be forever one cig away from becom­ing a smoker again. Actu­ally, I did give up alco­hol a few years ago (though I wasn’t an alco­holic) and I’ve had no trouble doing without. I guess because I’d prac­tic­ally stopped drink­ing any­way, when I made the decision to never drink again, it wasn’t a real prob­lem. Smoking, how­ever, has been much harder. I am tak­ing it one day at a time, but wouldn’t be sur­prised to lapse once in a while. I know that doesn’t sound very pos­it­ive, but I hon­estly believe it. A least I know I can stop now, so I shan’t beat myself up too much, if I do succumb.