While living in Auckland, I’d maintained a morning gym routine. The gym opened at 6am and I was at work by 8 or so. Some driving was required, but it was a workable situation. I held onto a 5–6day/week routine and it didn’t conflict with my after work activities. Moving to Wellington was hard. The house I moved into wasn’t near a gym and neither was work. I’d ended up joining a Wellington City Council gym which was sorta on my way to work. It still didn’t work out too well – the last bus to work leaves too early, and I wouldn’t get in there long enough to get a decent work out. Also on the downside was carrying gym stuff with me all the time. As a result, I’d get to the gym once or twice a week, and usually one of those was for a yoga class. Not nearly up to my self-expectations.

With my year membership expiring at the end of April, I had a chance to rethink everything. There is another WCC gym, which is much closer to the house I’m in now. It’s about a 5 minute run over there, which should make everything fall in place and still get me to work on time. I can even drop off my gym bag at the house before heading to work. I gave it a try this morning – at the gym by 6:05 and on the 7:05 bus into town. Flawless.

There should be no excuses, just a plan to get back into proper shape. As it is, I haven’t been running enough to be ready for the half marathon at the end of June, but I’ll happily run the 10km portion for now and consider running the half at Taupo. We’ll see how this goes.