The jog-blog

This is a bit off topic from my regular posts, but it’s something I felt like sharing, just because it was on my mind.

I’ve recently taken up jogging.

And I’m loving it - the freedom of it just being me and the road is an amazing experience.

I’ve taken it up because I can’t get to my gym as often anymore as I moved further away from it, and I’m still within my contract period, so can’t get out of it to go somewhere else just yet.

And that’s quite a big deal for me – I’m quite the gym bunny. Not “all that I think about, go there every night” type of gym bunny, but the kind that enjoys hitting the treadmill, the exercise bikes, or taking a class or two a couple of times a week to just burn off the week and de-stress myself a little bit.

Anybody who knows me away from the tinterweb world or the bdsm world knows how important that is for me. To keep my body in shape, look after myself, feel healthy and vibrant and be happy in myself. It’s part of what makes me, me!

I was building up my jogging days, when I started 6 weeks ago I only went once a week. But now, last week I hit the streets on three mornings out of seven, for 4 miles each time

I’m shocked by my discipline and how quickly I’ve taken to it, I’m not a big morning person, but I’ve been up at about 5 a.m. every time and out the house before half five every time. And it’s been refreshing. I thought I’d be tired and not want to do it, if I were taking a bet on myself back 6 weeks ago when I started, I would have betted that I’d not make it through the month.

But I’ve proved myself wrong, I’m still going strong, and have really started to develop a love for it. Is love too strong a word? Mutual non-hate maybe? lol
It's certainly a good stress reliever anyway, after a jog and a shower, I feel so much better about starting a brand new day.I even took one of my dogs with me one time last week. I’m not sure she enjoyed it that much, but she didn’t mind it either. She enjoys running with her long lanky legs, but it was a struggle for us to find a pace we could both agree on, I wanted to go quite slowly, she decided she wanted to sprint and then stop, sprint and then stop, sprint and then stop.

She’s still a puppy for all intents and purposes though, so I thought it would be a good exercise for her to practice her loose-lead walking/cantering (or walking to heel as it is sometimes known) – which she’s been struggling with so far.

Anyway, it went okay, but I don’t think it will be a regular activity that she’ll be joining mommy on!! She’s just not disciplined enough to stick to my 7 minute mile targets!! Instead she chooses to stop for pee-breaks, or shrubbery sniffing distractions, or decides to turn around and try and run the opposite way to follow a random stranger that happens to be passing.

I will teach her discipline and focus, I will, I will, I will… or at least I will try!!

2009 London Marathon – here I come… perhaps!! Lol :-)