I Feel Silly, Oh So Silly!

Rule #1 of any exercise outing: Don't. Get. Hurt.

Yes, I did feel very silly (and a bit trepidatious) going out in over a foot of snow today to go walking/jogging. Especially the parts where I was jumping around to avoid the dubious patches and clumps of ice and snow on the road.

And, I knew at the time I looked silly. But I didn't care.

I will say that again: I didn't care. (When I first started this crazy thing they call enjoying exercise - because I do now - I was incredibly self-conscious.)

Why? Because I didn't see anyone else out doing the crazy snow jump today to get off a few calories. Not that I blame them. I was about ready to turn around myself when I saw that an entire street I had to go down hadn't been plowed.

But then I considered it again for a moment and thought to myself: Whatever happened to being adventurous? Boo hoo if you don't want to get your pants wet. Get them wet anyway, goofball! And, as it turns out, they didn't actually get too wet. Which was nice. The kind souls that live on said street that hadn't been plowed had pushed a snow blower down their sidewalks, so I was able to jog for a short stretch where there weren't icy patches.

(Random interesting story: I was scared to death at first of having to walk on a road entirely covered with snow. Surely it would be slippery and I would inevitably fall. Much to my surprise, I soon figured out the snow was - believe it or not - run-on-able. So, uhh, I did! It was fun. Nod.)

The rest of the excursion was an interesting mix of carefully padding along through the icy patches, feeling liberated when getting the chance to run through a clear path of solid pavement, and amusment at what other people must have thought of me as I dodged various sections of snow on the road (and slid a little in a few spots). But through the whole thing, I never fell.

Praise God for fun snowy outings (even if my speed vs. time wasn't so ideal - there were extenuating circumstances!)

No lies though - I can't wait until we have consistently sunnier days, and solid, hard pavement to run on.