SparkNB's Journey to Fitness

    So, I had wanted to run my first 5k in 2010. There was one locally Thanksgiving weekend, but as a fundraiser for arthritis, cost $25, and the weather wasn't great, and I just didn't feel prepared. Nothing really changed today, except this one was free (except canned good donation to local food bank), and was the last one of the year. Plus it had sounded pretty ("run through the lights":  www.kalamazooarearunners .com/2010RunThroughTheLigh ts.html  and family members who had been downtown said it was pretty when they had been there, and I hadn't seen it yet this year (they have some very nice lights..the kind that have a moving float thing, and the main little park downtown is all decorated...I did a 'Rocky' through the candy-cane lane, lol). So, yesterday, I looked up the date (I thought it was Friday night), and realized it was today, Thursday. This afternoon, I thought about wussing out, but really wanted to have done it (different than wanting to do...

  Even though the date listed is the 2nd, I'm counting this as Dec 1, as that is when I decided to respark...BUT I *had* to workout (spinning), and actually I did workout the previous day, pruning the major bushes, which turned out to be more exhausting than I thought, lol! I plan on sparking and blogging about it everyday this month; that will be a major challenge for me, because, as I USED to say-'my only consistency is (or WAS) inconsistency'. Also, that's not true, and the self-talk/self-fulfilling prophecy of negativity doesn't produce positive outcomes. THAT's my new mantra!  So, I started out doing pretty well last month, but then there came to be an opportunity where I could totally indulge/rebel, and I did. Who was I *really* hurting...the ice cream rebellion survives only on MY ass, in the long term...I guess the real issue is *control*, and I felt I needed the opportunity to express it, at least to myself.  So I (temporarily) felt too embarrassed to s...