I'm Becoming an Exercise Junky!!!!

For my birthday this year Kerry bought me a gym membership. I was a little afraid at first that I would not use it enough. But soon my spare time was overtaken by the exercise craze. I wondered how a person of MY AGE would every survive if I began to use muscles that had not been used in YEARS. So I began working with a personal trainer. AND the sore muscles began. I started off by doing leg lifts, push ups, planks, and seated rows. The next day I could feel it definitely in my chest, legs, and torso and promptly came down with a cold. No. the cold was not an excuse to quit and solve my sore muscle problem, but it could have been. I was determined to keep swimming through this and ended up at the point of exhaustion so I took a week off work and then went to Utah. The next time I saw my personal trainer I was ready to go. I still had my cough but determined that I would not let that stop me. So she began to work my unused muscles and I discovered aches that I had not had in years. But have been doggedly pushing myself to overcome this by using lots of Tylenol. It worked and I was ready to go to the gym after downing 2 tablets. The best part of this is that yesterday I had an exercise high. Talk about getting a rush from those beautiful brain endorphins. I lifted my weights, did my agonizing push ups and then got on the treadmill. I have a goal to do not one but 2 triathalons this summer. I am trying to be in fantastic mode with my body. The first I will swim and the second is in August and I will do swimming, biking, and running. I am in the mode like the Little Engine that Could...I think I can...I think I can...