Time to think

What I love, and I mean love, about my new nightly routine of exercise is the time it gives me to think.  I usually come up with some good ideas for blogs, goals I would like to reach, ideas I would like to talk over with my lovely lady etc.  Its good solitary mental deflation time for me and I love it.

So, tonight, while I was going around the trail I got to thinking about the running.  I was thinking about how hard it is and why it was so hard.  I could only run about 1/4k without my feet and legs just screaming at me.  I was thinking about stretching, new runners, technique etc when like a bolt out of the blue it hit me, why it was so hard for me to jog.   Here it is, my big eureka moment.......  I'm FAT!!! lol....

Really its as simple as that, I am fat.  While I am improving and I am not quite as fat today as I was yesterday I am still fat.  Not only am I fat, I am fat and not young anymore.  I am a Forty Fatty as the blog title plainly states.  And being forty and fat presents some physical challenges.  I am now about 268lbs, when you run you are slamming that weight down with each step with enough force to propel yourself forward at a faster pace, hence increasing the impact and the pressure.  It then stands to reason that the fatter you, the harder you hit, the greater the impact, the harder the jolt to bone, muscle, ligaments and tendons....  couple that with the pesky thing we call gravity and then it becomes no mystery at all as to why I am finding it hard to run.

So I say to myself, self, if you can run at ALL now at 268 lbs, with some consistency, and maintain sprint speeds throughout, you are just going to smoke the HELL outta running with you are 180 lbs....

It's thoughts like that that keep me motivated!!! lol