Five Weeks of Lazy
I must confess I'm quietly shitting myself. I've had five weeks break from poling, from fitness, from any activity that could potentially give me a bit of a sweaty sheen to my skin.
Yep five weeks of complete lethargy, and it's been totally by choice.
I've loved it but the time has ended and tonight I return to the pole world. Tonight I have two, one hour classes back to back.
Tonight, well basically tonight my expectation is I will die.
Okay, okay, I'm going for the dramatic here... maybe not die but I will feel like death I'm sure.
And it's all my own doing so I don't expect any sympathy what so ever, but if you do offer me some I will grab that on to it and cling desperately for dear life.
For five weeks I've been a gluttonous sloth, and I've loved it.
I've eaten whatever the hell I wanted whenever I've wanted. I have over indulged, I have enjoyed Christmas and New Year. I've celebrated with family and friends. I've sat in front of the television binge watching Supernatural. It's been wonderful, but now the reckoning happens, now I pay the price.
And it's no surprise, it is what it is, and I am okay with it. I have a long year with lots of hard work ahead of me: physically, nutritionally, intellectually, emotionally.
Bring it, it's going to be brilliant!
But tonight, that first night back at training, the reality check at just how far I've let myself go... it's going to hurt so bad.
The next day it will hurt a bit more, because the second day is always a bitch, and then it will lessen. Day by day after that it will lessen until eventually I return to the constant state of having a dull ache somewhere, a niggle here, a bruise there. Those things bring their own rewards though. They signify strength returning and increasing, flexibility unfolding, new skills being mastered, and old ones refined.
So bring it, listen to me bitch and moan, laugh as I suffer, and then join me as we kick some serious pole goals in 2016.
Yeah baby!