day two - the snow comes

I woke up from a fabulous dream (I took my parents to see Legally Blonde the Musical, and Dolly Parton was there, sitting in front of us!) to the sound of my alarm. I couldn't work out why it was so early, and then I remembered I'd set it for 7.15 so I'd be able to get up and go for a run. Ugh. Peeked out of the window, it wasn't raining, so up I got.

DP was a bit bemused, but encouraging (as he rolled over and tucked himself up in the warm duvet).

I used to run quite a bit when I was a teenager, but apart from training for and doing the Race for Life in 2006, I haven't done any since. I pulled on my trainers and my warm fleecy hat, popped some inspirational music on the iPod, opened the front door, stepped out and...

fell on my arse.

Apparently it was quite icy last night.

Once I'd picked myself up again, I slithered to the park (which is about 5 seconds away from my house) and surveyed the slippery paths. Clearly I couldn't run on them, so I chose to run on the grass. After some stretching I began to do 1 minute running and 1 minute walking, alternately. I had hoped to do 10 minutes - so 5 minutes running and 5 minutes walking - but I couldn't manage it; so just 4 minutes of running and 6 of walking! Just as I was finishing it began to snow and then I had to walk to work in a snowstorm. That might put paid to my plans to skip in the park tomorrow morning (must look out that skipping rope) but I've discovered loads of fitness videos on YouTube so could always do one of them. Me and DP are planning on going swimming tomorrow evening too.

My plan is to try and do at least three bouts of intensive exercise a week throughout the challenge, and more if I can manage it.

We went out for a drink last night and I had a small glass of red wine and then was naughty and had another glass of white with dinner (home made tandoori chicken and rice - kind of healthy? Sadly DP also made onion bhajis, which were too delicious not to eat. Oh well). Trying to only have a couple of drinks a week - I feel awful if I drink much on the Metformin anyway so that does make it easier.

We also watched One Born Every Minute on Channel 4, which was a good reminder of why I'm doing this in the first place...