The Exercise Motivation Thread - 2024

[Norachan]

Our exercise motivation thread had slipped down to the 4th page!



I've been very active for the past couple of weeks. My mum came to visit so I took some time off to do a bit of sight seeing with her. I went horse riding on April 23rd, then between the 26th and May 9th I did lots of long walks around cities, two long hikes, one along the coast and one through a forest, and explored an island that had a 330 step stairway leading down to a cave and back up again. My thighs are still in recovery.

I'm currently fighting off a cold. I get sick every time I go through Tokyo. I haven't been that active for the last few days because of that, but I might venture out for a walk soon.

How's everyone else doing?

 

[rubysmama]

A little gardening, but weather hasn't been co-operative, so not much else. One day I'll get walking again.

 

[Lari]

Mostly just stroller strides once a week. A couple walks.

 

[Norachan]

I went for a walk for about an hour yesterday. It was sunny, but I wore my thick fleece as I'm determined to try and sweat out this cold. Two 30 minute yoga practices today.

Being sick is so frustrating!

 

[Norachan]

I've been gradually easing myself back into longer walks and yoga routines this week. I started with hour walks and 30 minute yoga practices, but yesterday I was feeling much better so did and hour of yoga and then a two hour walk.

I found a new trail to explore. There's a huge area of forestry commission land near here. They finished logging one section a few months ago and the logging trail is still clear. I followed it uphill for a couple of miles, then managed to find the place where it connected to another logging trail and looped back through the forest. It was a really nice walk. The new trees that have just been planted are only knee high, but there are other areas where the trees are already over two meters and some older growth areas with massive pines and cedars. Lots of native trees in flower too.

 

[rubysmama]

I finally can post something:

20 minute walk Sunday
22 minute walk Monday

raining today, so unfortunately probably won't walk today

 

[Norachan]

Good for you rubysmama

I've been having some adventures. Last week I decided to explore in a different direction and ended up twisting my knee while scrambling up a steep slope. It wasn't so bad at the time, but I decided to have a few days of just doing yoga and archery practice while it healed. Started doing long walks again last weekend and had a couple of really nice hikes.

Monday and Tuesday it rained so I stayed in and did long yoga practices. Tuesday afternoon it seemed to brighten up so I thought I'd go out and walk for a bit. Big mistake. After about 30 minutes the rain started coming down really heavily and the wind got up too. I decided to turn around and walk back along the road. Three cars passed me and every time the driver stopped and asked if I needed a lift. Japanese people are so nice! I was already soaked though and pretty close to home. I didn't want to get their cars all wet and muddy.

By evening the rain had turned into a full storm. I heard someone in the next village was killed by falling trees!



Wednesday I spent about five hours cleaning up all the mess from the storm, then did 45 minutes very gentle yoga. 90 minute walk and 30 minutes archery practice today.