When I left work yesterday I considered skipping the gym to go to Express to take back a couple shirts I bought a few weeks ago that I don’t like. But that thought only lasted about 4 seconds, and I turned toward the gym instead of the mall. I’m glad I did. I felt awesome after my workout, and all traces of this weekend’s anxiety had disappeared. Most of it was gone after hearing back from The Therapist yesterday, but after my workout I felt great. I needed that.
I didn’t, however, run like I’d planned. Instead I stuck to my elliptical workout and I was ok with that. When I got home I grabbed Matty to take him out, then decided that we should hit the park and try to get rid of some of his energy, so off we went. And we ran! He loved it. I ran until it hurt, then walked a little, then ran some more. And surprisingly enough I could run a little more than I expected. In fact I think I could run the whole loop if I just put my mind to it. It wasn’t long – maybe a mile – but having done it post-workout made me that much more excited about it.
I saw my gym crush toward the end of my workout and felt a little braver with it than before, but he was gone before I could muster up the “Hello, how are you” I’d planned. But I feel more confident about it after spending my workout reading an article from Psychology Today on just that – confidence. I’m working on it. I really am.
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