WOTD Exercise

Exercise

I used to exercise a lot. I prided myself on swimming thirty six lengths of the swimming pool every day. I cycled sometimes twenty miles a day. I was addicted to the gym. In fact, where we lived in Derbyshire, England, they built a brand new state of the art gym which I could sit in the back bedroom of our house and see right into. I loved going there myself, and as I looked in, I could see people doing their thing in there.

Who would have thought that with such a regime, I would end up like I have? I certainly did not expect it at all. I beleived that I was doing myself good. I never overdid it, but each day involved exercise of some kind. Sometimes it would just be walking my dogs in the hills.

I often look back on those days now and feel so sad. I would love just to be able to get downstairs and out of the front door and down the ramp into the drive and then into the car. Not that I would be able to see anything but it would be lovely just to feel the fresh air again and hear the things that are going on outside from closer quarters. None of that is going ot happene now. I spend some of my time watching videos on You Tube of people walking the Coast to Coast walk or doing some other walk. I had always planned to do the Coast to Coast walk myself. It takes about ten days to do it. It was not t be. Nowadays it takes me all my time to walk to the bathroom. I am getting fat now lol. It isn’t good for me to be so inactive. It is strange though because I do things in my mind. Sadly, that doesn’t keep me slim. Not that anyone sees me anyway, but I would like to feel that my body was healthy again.

Yes, I would love to be able to exercise again.

Thankyou Alice for this word