Moving Everyday

Today marks the third day of Blogmas. Fifteen days of my thoughts, with some Christmas cheer sprinkled in.

You may read the title and think it's silly, thinking well, doesn't each person move every day? The answer is yes, but the movement I am talking about is more intentional. For the past two weeks and onward, I have committed myself to running two miles a day. There are multiple reasons for this, but one stands above all the others.

Each day when I come home from work, I am agitated and groggy. All I wish to do is lie in bed and be nothing. I needed something to help knock me out of that funk and give me energy. While yes running burns energy, it has been helping me regain myself and helping me be productive.

It's funny because growing up, running was an enemy to me. It made me bright red and breathe hard; instead of doing it more to make it easier, I stopped doing it altogether. It doesn't help that in middle school, they had us doing these terrible runs all the time. I do not look back fondly on those.

Tomorrow marks twenty days in a row of running two miles, and I will say with certainty that there were days I absolutely did not want to run. That's when I remind myself that it's only twenty minutes of my time, there is no reason not to do it, you lazy bum. Some good motivation that helps is telling myself that I am doing great, and I don't want to break the chain I've got going. Also, reminding myself that afterwards I will feel better.

I will feel better when I choose to put that time into myself. When I realize that putting time into myself is just as important as everything else.