I was catching up with Alexis' blog a few days ago, and her post about issuing herself a challenge really chimed with me. http://www.girlrural.com/2011/11/issuing-myself-challenge.html I've been thinking for ages that I should try and go for a walk everyday..but I don't particularly enjoy walking for the sake of walking, and I know that I wouldn't keep it up in bad weather.
I thought about setting myself an achievable target. Maybe, walk everyday for a week (I appreciate this probably sounds pathetic to those of you who enjoy walking, or walk anyway).
Then as I read on, I saw the fateful words "on my treadmill". Now, I've never seen the point of treadmills. Too big, too bulky, and likely to just be a dust catcher. We don't have anywhere sensible to put a treadmill - at least, no where where it would also actually get used.
But I kept thinking about it. I looked on Ebay. Lots of treadmills there (mostly hardly used, I chuckled when I read that), and much less than buying one new. I spotted one quite local to me. I decided I'd bid on it. If I won it, I'd put it in my living room for a couple of weeks and use it every day. Then I'd move it into the spare bedroom, and see if I continued to use it. I would set myself an easily achievable target. Maybe, x minutes walking each day, and see how much I covered, rather than aiming to do a specific distance.
And if I failed, I could sell it on Ebay without losing much money.
I raided my Quidco pot, and my birthday money pot, and made my bid.
And I won it.
I haven't told DH yet. I'm going to have to tell him because I need to use his car to collect it. (And, of course, he might notice it in the living room anyway).
I thought about setting myself an achievable target. Maybe, walk everyday for a week (I appreciate this probably sounds pathetic to those of you who enjoy walking, or walk anyway).
Then as I read on, I saw the fateful words "on my treadmill". Now, I've never seen the point of treadmills. Too big, too bulky, and likely to just be a dust catcher. We don't have anywhere sensible to put a treadmill - at least, no where where it would also actually get used.
But I kept thinking about it. I looked on Ebay. Lots of treadmills there (mostly hardly used, I chuckled when I read that), and much less than buying one new. I spotted one quite local to me. I decided I'd bid on it. If I won it, I'd put it in my living room for a couple of weeks and use it every day. Then I'd move it into the spare bedroom, and see if I continued to use it. I would set myself an easily achievable target. Maybe, x minutes walking each day, and see how much I covered, rather than aiming to do a specific distance.
And if I failed, I could sell it on Ebay without losing much money.
I raided my Quidco pot, and my birthday money pot, and made my bid.
And I won it.
I haven't told DH yet. I'm going to have to tell him because I need to use his car to collect it. (And, of course, he might notice it in the living room anyway).
