For seven years I taught a 6:30 pm class every Monday night. So if I wanted to run on Monday I needed to make sure I got up early and did it before work, or tried to squeeze it in after work and before leaving to teach. Mondays always felt so hectic and full. I got home past 8:00 pm and we ate dinner at 8:30. Just… blah.
So during our stay-at-home order it was so nice to have a choice – do I “sleep in” (until 6:20 am, ha)? Do I work out after work or read a book or take a nap? I felt so much more content having a choice. And I decided Mondays would be my rest days, at least from running, and sometimes, from doing any physical activity at all!
But here is the problem – when I don’t start my day with a run or SOME type of workout, I am a moody BYOTCH. It’s just a fact.
So Mondays are ROUGH. I’m moody from not working out, moody from getting too much sleep (gah, lame, I know), and usually moody about work. Ugh, what a way to start the week. Not.
I’m going to try starting next Monday with a workout and see if that helps.
Photo from my walk this morning… I really wanted to run but my body needs two days of rest after running all those miles last week!
I’ve recently realized that I need to start my day with some sort of activity, too. For a while, I was waking up 15 minutes before I needed to log into work but now that WFH life is here to stay, I need to develop a better morning routine. And I just do better if I start my day with a long walk + shower. Plus, it’s so damn hot here now that if I don’t get in my walk before, like, 7am, it’s impossible for the rest of the day. Stupid humidity.
That is how I am in the winter – wake up 10-15 mins before work and wake up while logging on and sorting emails and all that. But it feels so much better to have worked out first! How is starting that new routine going?
You know yourself best and this sounds like a good experiment to run! Anything rather than being a BYOTCH, right? 😉
Yeah, I can’t stand myself anymore and can’t imagine it’s that fun for Steven either 😉