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Feb 05 2017

My Antisocial Running Regiment

Since posting my long piece on my personal health changes I have been thinking more and more about why I run.

Running for me has become my activity of choice for getting my blood moving and heart pumping. I love the feeling of running while I’m doing it. And the feeling of accompaniment when I’m done, but I’ve also been very protective of my running time.

Over the last severals months, I’ve been asked to go running with other people. Sometimes on the weekends and sometimes during the week. Yet I have always declined. And it makes me feel awkward.

It is not that I don’t want to be with other people or that I’m too self-conscious I don’t think I could keep up. It’s that running for me is a very personal and scheduled activity.

In this past few weeks, I’m come to describe my approach to running as a very utilitarian activity.

Running as a leisurely activity still doesn’t compute for me. I can’t bring myself to go for a run in the middle of the day on a whim.

I don’t run at random. I don’t run for the fun of it. I don’t run to waste time.

I run because of science. I run because I’m doing “X” for a certain amount of time to get to “Y”. I run because I’ve learned I need to exert more energy to improve and maintain a healthy self.

Yes, I sound like a robot but that is how my logical brain works. And how I’ve come to fit something I never use to do into a daily routine.

The hardest part for me while picking up running was giving myself the permission to do it. And the best way I found I could do that was by telling myself I’m going to do it first thing in the morning for 6 days a week.

Running first thing in the morning is great for me because I’m a morning person. I’m on the treadmill or outside by 5:50 am. It also means that running doesn’t interfere with any other scheduled activities in my day.

I live by my routine and to break it is very hard for me. So to go for a random run in the middle of my day would throw me off. And I like my structured routine. I do allow for flexibility in that routine. But when it comes to something as important as being physically activity I am now determined to keep to my regiment. So even if plans in the day or evening change I know I did my exercise and don’t have to stress about it.

So while I may shift into leisurely running with other people, when summer comes perhaps. For now, I’ll stick to my regiment.

At the same time, I’m curious to know how other people have dealt with similar internal struggles? Do you follow a regiment and running socially? Is it possible? Am I anti-social?

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Journal · Tagged: activities, health, running

Feb 24 2013

A Winters Afternoon in Yellowknife

This past Saturday was what I would consider a good productive winters day in Yellowknife. It was an equal mix of pleasure and chores.

Like a typical Saturday the day started at the Yellowknife Dump. For those that doesn’t know; the Yellowknife Dump is one of the last dumps in Canada that you can still salvage at. The reason being is because Yellowknifers like there dump and the treasures.

My find this week at the dump was a big one. One that I’m sure you’ll probably question. It is a couch. A nice couch though. On a side note this is not the first time I have brought home furniture from the dump. The office chair I use in my home office was a dump find 6 years ago… it still works. The key to getting furniture at the dump is to: 1) make sure it is semi clean, 2) Leave it outside in the freezing cold and kill anything that might be alive and 3) clean it with a big combination of upholstery cleaner and Frebreeze.

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After the dump, friends and I wandered the highway in search for some wildlife. In finding what looked to be an animal trail, turned out to be a trapline of sort. It was a well packed trail done by snowshoes. The area was really beautiful despite seeing no animals.

Adventures in the Bush    Adventures in the Bush

Adventures in the Bush

Adventures in the Bush    Adventures in the Bush

Adventures in the Bush    Adventures in the Bush

After getting home from the hike and tending to the bread that was rising in my kitchen I ventured back out to do some yard work. Mainly digging out my trailer. I hadn’t moved it since the fall and I needed to put new, bigger, tires on it. Ones that would allow me to pull it through the bush better when getting firewood. It was a lot of shovelling.

I then took it to my parent house where I put the new tires on.

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At about 10pm last night we went out looking for the Auror but thanks to the snow we didn’t see any.

What did you do?

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Journal · Tagged: activities, firewood, hiking, photos, Snow, Winter, yellowknife

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