Woo Hoo!! Look at me Mum!!

Yes that is me up at 5am and ready to go by 5.20am. (I need to work on that turn around). It was dark, raining and very cold out, but I'm grooving to go for my first work out. Actually I was awake at 4.35am with the flannelette sheets pulled over my head cursing my enthusiasm, or more likely, my anxiety for this first day. I bet that will wear off quick smart. 

Once in the car with the dark morning surrounding me, demister on (and not working), windows down to reduce the fog inside the windscreen, I drove down my road when a deranged laugh ripped from within me - this is madness, who does this sort of thing. In disbelief I noticed so many other cars on the road and wondered where on earth were all these people going at this ridiculous hour of the day. I decided to think that they too were all heading off to their gym to put in a healthy 50 minutes to start their day. And even more encouraging once at my gym there were actually people in it. I was certain it would be deserted until the more decent hour of 6 or 7am but no at least 10 others where there, and so I thought there must be hundreds more in my town alone, at that time of day, doing the same thing, and thousands and thousands more through out this country. Now that thought was encouraging. Wow there is a whole other, unknown, world out there with many fellow compatriots going about, doing their own healthy thing to draw encouragement from. 

So tomorrow and the next day, and the next, and the next at 5am when my alarm blares and I think "NOOOOOOO!! I CAN'T", I'll remember all my buddies out there getting up in the dark and cold, and I'll think "Hold up, wait for me, I'm coming!"