Our office can be divided into four groups, or sectors and one sector of the four is known as the “fit” sector: everyone in that sector runs (two have run marathons), in addition to doing yoga and other activities that fall firmly under the “exercise” category. They eat healthy and they are great role models for the rest of us who would rather spend our lunch eating greasy grub, or lazing around at our desks, catching up on bogs.

Recently, someone from my sector transferred to this healthy sector, and she was told jokingly that she’d have to take up running because it was a prerequisite for being a member of the sector. Now her attempts to engage in a weekly fast walking session over the summer make sense! While I was in the bathroom with two of these ultra fit, ultra buff, 13% body fat coworkers yesterday (they had just returned from a run, not surprisingly), they mentioned that they’d be starting a once a week running group that would be for beginners and therefore a slow running program. In a moment of weakness and a desire for a belly that didn’t resemble a bowl of jelly, I expressed interest in it. Twenty minutes later I was told that our first slow run is scheduled in two day’s time. I’m hoping that my few-times-a-week mad dashes to catch the bus have prepared me for this run.

I’m also trying not to worry that by “slow run” they actually mean “let’s run 5 kilometers in 15 minutes”. Winter is just around the corner if there is one thing guaranteed to keep me indoors, mouth full of sweet treats, it’s cold weather. For all I know the forecast calls for snow tomorrow. Whatever the case, I intend to go at my own pace, and run as long as I can without collapsing in a heap. If that’s only around the block to the coffee shop to grab a hot chocolate and a cookie? So be it.

(Fat free hot chocolate of course)

(And not so much a cookie as a sugar-free, low calorie, low fat, fibre-laden bar)

Just in case you’re keeping tabs on me.

Filed under: flab gab, Health, NaBloPoMo by jummy