Dear Diary,
The first full week of 2024 has come to an end and I can safely say I have abided by one of my New Year’s Resolutions – to be more active. I did set numerous others which I have broken, including getting to bed earlier, he writes at 1.40am, but increasing my activity by doing some kind of movement every day so far has happened!
Inevitably I won’t be able to keep this up both mentally and physically. The drain would probably mentally stop me after a couple of weeks but physically it will be an impossibility this coming Friday as I am going into hospital to have a brain angiogram (I filmed one ages ago). This is where they make an incision into the artery in the groin and feed a tube up to the brain to squirt in some contrast agent. I certainly will not be able to run or other activity for a few days until I heal. I will check when it is safe to do so!
I am already quite an active person so increasing it is not as if I am going from zero to full stream ahead but just turning up the dial. My review of 2023 showed that I moved quite a lot through a combination of walking, cycling and new to last year, outdoor running.
If half way through the year, my activity levels have decreased, I can look back at this post and hopefully get a bit of inspiration. Here’s the activity I have done this past week:
Monday
Cycled 24 miles, ran 5 miles
Tuesday
6,117 steps, Gym, then 11 minute run home.
Wednesday
45 minutes swim breast stroke. Ran for 31 minutes.
Thursday
Walked 18,884 steps.
Friday
Gym at 0:07am. On my run home it started raining.
Saturday
Parkrun. 27:01. Then cycled for 8.6 miles.
Sunday
Gym for an hour. Ran home. Cycled 5.3 miles.
Speak soon,
Sam x
