I Can Run, Kinda…

The intensity was too high and it took some considerable effort to figure that out. I had no idea that was the thing I was getting wrong, though my iFit trainer, Tommy, kept saying to dial it down if it was too hard.

Having the Fitbit was useful for monitoring heart rate and determining max/min statistics as well as the fact that the device v the treadmill weren’t providing the same data.

It was easy to be ‘oh, I can do this’ and then try to find complicated reasons why I couldn’t actually do this…until I realized the intensity was too high. I was running too fast.

Slowing it down made it easier to go further for longer.

It was allegedly meant to take 2 people 2.5 hours to assemble. It took 7. But okay, that was the first challenge.

Got it online in February of that year using the iFit program.

The motivation came next, namely because if I was going to be here doing this it had to serve a purpose, and to start with just coming out of the pandemic fitter and healthier than when I went in seemed like a damn good plan.

For a while, walking was great. I learned a lot listening to Ramy Romany guide me through Egypt, Dr. Evan Antin on safari, Mick Davey in Turkey, and Dalen Spratt on haunted walks through the American Deep South and the Louisiana Bayou.

Yet I wanted more.

I need a harder challenge given that I walked a great deal for most of my life anyway.

So I found Tommy River Puzey, and he’s teaching me a few things.

This is a weird journey I’m on.

It’s tough.