oooof

well, i've made it through 3 weeks of actually exercising and i can tell you that it is absolutely exhausting. this whole "running sets you up for the rest of the day"  stuff is utter bollocks. i am hoping this will get easier so i am still slogging through but dear lord am i ever tired. and my back is currently ageing about 2 decades faster than the rest of me which can't be good.

on the upside, i've learned that running in the morning isn't as bad as it sounds. mornings are so rubbishly awful anyways that it turns out even running can't make them substantially worse. i've taken to setting my alarm an hour before i need to get up to run, and when it goes off i scarf down a banana and a pint of water and go back to sleep for another 45 minutes. the key to this whole process is not to think about it too much, which is fairly easy at 545 am.

an even nicer upside is the post run snack n had for me this afternoon. so wrong, and so right.

running may make you thin but probably not the way i do it!