Posts Tagged running
bchallenge. Day 4
Everything is becoming mechanical. And I’d say I’m happy this personall chalenge is coming to an end.
I really don’t care waking up at six every morning (there’s a lot of life out there at that time, I don’t feel alone), but I don’t like running in the cold anymore (and this morning we had 9 degrees at 6.10am) and definitely being forced to go to sleep at 11pm is the greatest sacrifice; don’t get me wrong: I’m totally ready to sleep and usually it takes less than 5 minutes… but where’s my after dinner time? that time I usually occupy with a mix of emails, work, thoughts, reading and relax?
But there’s one thing that makes me happy, just read the following bullet list:
- Wednesday: running
- Thursday: running
- Friday: running
- Saturday: golf
- Sunday: tennis
- Monday: running
The behaviour cha(lle)nge
AKA changing (some of) my habits for a week and tracking the results. but first things first.
I’m really happy when the alarmclock is not ringing thus I’m able to wake up early enough to have a whooole day in front of me. I love to sleep, even if I was not able to wake up after 10 am, during vacation days, since I was 23.
Yesterday I had a nice lunch with the global innovation firm frog President Doreen Lorenzo (caveat: I’m Technology Director at frog Milan studio) and I was curious about her standard day: she wakes up at 4am (yes, 4, four, quattro) she dedicates one hour to emails and then two hours to physical activity; it might be a run on the street or a gym session depending on where she is. And the she goes back, has a shower and prepare for the office.
I told her I would die with such a regimen; but she definitely inspired me. Once I was a runner. But it’s now a year I haven’t run a single mile, shame on me. And the inspiration is: I can do that; I can wake up early in the morning (not at 4, at 6 am:-) ) can run for ~one hour and then prepare for my day.
And the good thing is that I’ll blog the outcomes. This will last for a week. Are you ready? I definitely am!
