This isn't really about greens. In fact, I'm almost out and will be taking a trip to the store to restock today. This is about perseverance. I heard on the news today about an X Games freestyle skier named Sarah Burke, who is in a medically induced coma after crashing on a training run in Park City. I shook my head and thought, "Crazy!" and then I nodded my head and thought, "Rockstar!" I bet she is going to get back on the slopes as soon as she can. Any woman who has the gumption to compete in the X Games has a strength that the rest of us likely don't have.
Usually when I am working out, I am totally on board on Mondays. It's a life-long commitment to the "My diet starts on Monday" concept. My uncle used to say that every week at Sunday night dinner when I was in college. It would have made a fascinating graph if we had marked the time that he said it. Anyway, at the beginning of the year when I had that mental shift from "Am I going to work out?" to "What is my workout going to be today?" I realized that I was excited to try new things just for the sake of trying them, and not because I was obsessing over calories or weight loss.
For example, my local rec center teaches a Turbokick class on Friday mornings at 9am. Last Friday I picked up my friend Melissa and we headed over. I knew that I had a commitment to my bestie later that afternoon to workout, but I wanted to try the class. On Saturday I was craving bread, pasta, potatoes, and anything else starchy. I realized it was because this is what my workout schedule had looked like Thursday - Saturday:
Those are some serious workouts in about a 40 hour time period. Not something I would ever recommend to someone who hadn't already been working out for a consistent period of time. I was tired, but I loved all of the workouts because they are things I love to do.
I imagine it is the same high for Sarah Burke. When she gets out there on the pipe she is in a different world. With my dog and kids running around while I workout, it isn't exactly another world, but I have found a sense of accomplishment that comes from doing really hard things and not backing down. Maybe it is because I turn 40 in about seven weeks, but I am very committed to keeping my body in shape to play with my grandkids someday. I don't want to be old before I start, and having kids later in life means I will be an older grandma.
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