Another 5 AM

My day starts every morning at 5:15 am. For the last 19 months I’m actually lucky if thats when it starts. #momlife. (Yeah that just happened 🤦‍♀️)

It used to start at 3:30 am. By my choice. I would get up and run 5km before work. Man did it feel amazing to be up and have accomplished that before most people had even left the warmth and comfort of their beds. Especially because I’ve always been the girl who snoozed multiple times until I was almost late, then rush around like an asshole to make it to work.

Alas I have become a morning person in the last 5 years and I love it! I just feel like I have so much more day. So much more time to be productive, or sometimes just to be lazy. But it’s more time for me.

So today, another 5am. My daughter almost slept through the whole night so I am feeling rested and ready to take on the day.

The running however is a different story. I tell myself it’s because I can’t leave my daughter alone in the house sleeping while I go, and that is definitely a thing. But I also know that I don’t have the self discipline to do it at the moment. That is next on my list of things to accomplish. Perhaps not running, but some form of exercise. It’s completely necessary. We must find ways to work our bodies.

I did start running again post bebe, but found that the hormones that relax your body to give birth also relax your knee ligaments and thus am in excruciating pain after a run as my knee cap does not get held in place. Awesome. So then o took up yoga. Boy did that help! Body and mind. But then another joy of having a baby, the way I was holding her to nurse was wearing on the tendon in my elbow giving me “golfers elbow”. I then found myself unable to do downward facing dog, or any other pose that required me to put pressure on my arm. Cripes!!!

Months later it is feeling almost better and I’m ready to start SOMETHING!! At this point it’s just getting past the metal block. If anyone has any tips tricks or suggestions to what they’re doing, Or how they got themselves started again after being away from exercise I am always open.

Hopefully tomorrow I can write about my next 5 am and how I moved my butt a little.

Til next time!