exercise!

This morning I got at 6:30--very early! I have been meaning to start exercising again (for three years now? four years?) but haven't. I was planning on starting last week (not the week before because that was the first week of school) but I got that terrible cold. I am still sniffling a little and I feel a little raspy in my chest, but I decided to get up and go for a walk. Not a run, not yet, and actually getting up earlier than I need to sounds like the hardest thing right now.

I have to admit that after I got up at 6:30, I crawled back into bed. I did not fall asleep again and got up. I walked away from my house for 15 minutes, until I got to a giant branch that had fallen on the pathway, and then I walked back. I felt good. It's funny--at the end of 2000 and the beginning of 2001, when I was living in Harare, Zimbabwe I was running every morning for 30 minutes and then walking for at least two hours everyday. Sometimes, I would walk for closer to three hours!

I did call the city about the branch. That was a torturous phone call (the woman on the phone had no idea what part of the city I was talking about), but hopefully the parks department will remove it. Not that I will be walking past that point tomorrow--30 minutes sounds like a great amount for walking!