In Australia, where I live, New Year's Eve and Day fall around the hottest part of the year. It's not uncommon for the week after NYD to be filled with media reports advising elderly people to stay inside, issuing bushfire warnings for different parts of Australia and for there to be stories of people who have drowned, almost drowned or been bitten by sharks when trying to escape the heat at the beach.
Not exactly the best kind of weather to uphold your new years resolutions, then.
But I've got one. It involves starting with the Couch to 5K and then training further so as to complete the City 2 Surf in August this year. Roughly seven months training time by the time I finally get my act into gear.
I downloaded 'The Non-Runner's guide to Marathons' or similar and from what I've read so far, the author, Dawn Dais, decided to participate in a marathon in memory of her grandfather who had had a stroke and died. I got to thinking, exercise is supposed to be a fabulous way of stamping out depression. Now that I genuinely want to get better, if only so I can sit on the couch and read books without this fierce grey cloud threatening to unload every day, I think that it would be an amazing thing if I could get sponsored to run in the City 2 Surf in the name of depression.
This would involve admitting to people who don't know that I have this disease, chronicling my efforts in a blog (probably separate to this one) and, of course, training most days.
Which I would love to start, except that it can't be much less than 30 degrees out there right now and that's not conducive to the first day of the couch 2 5 k.
As always, updates to follow.
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