Run Forest run ....

So I've finally given in to what I had always said I wouldn't do!

To briefly sign up for the local gym. I say briefly, because it is in essence a GP referall scheme membership of 8 weeks only. Please don't get the wrong idea here; the GP did not look at me and laugh and say "you need to do this!" I actually asked him for it, knowing there was a price cut advantage. He then reached for his forms, finally found them, and then laughed! No, he was far too professional to laugh, but was that the squeeky door as I  left or a strange snigger of hilarity?

Anyway, I object to doing to the gym and paying for it. Give it to me free and maybe I'd be there, but there just seems to be a sense that running on a treadmill and being charged for it, somehow goes against the grain when I could just go and jog. Well that's my argument anyway.

On the other hand, I've now been to the gym about 4 times in the last 8 days, so there must be something working in the concept of it all. So now I have this choice of running treadmill, odd skiing machine - or thats what the bloke said, a cycle machine and then the old fashioned weights and clunking machines. Yes there is pain, and yes a building up of sweat, but the surreal thing is that I can watch TV as I do so. Yesterday it was the tennis at Eastbourne, and I kid you not, running my allotted time on the belt I could fairly nicely follow the game and guess the shots. And yes, though everything in me cries "don't go", I'm managing to be deaf to the deep screams within.
Downstairs it's a different story; yesterday whilst doing my stuff I became aware of the almost Rhino like screams and trumpetting noises of some bloke as literally fought the block of weights to make them go up. Far too dramatic for me, I was going for reps!

But it feels great after the gym; somehow I feel more alive, and with it, until early evening, and thats when I seem to suddenly crash out!

I suppose the worst part of it all is that some of the machines I just cannot fathom. As much as I press every button, it will just not do what I want it to do.

So watch this space. I can feel a new fit Pastor forming!