Fitness buffs who mock me

I took a good, long look at myself. Yesterday, on Twitter, I had the following conversation:

@MaggieDammit (of Okay, Fine, Dammit) said:
“Joggers are such show-offs”

To which I replied:
@MaggieDammit totally. with their “I’m interested in my overall health and don’t let weather stand in my way’ attitude. What gives?

@MyMessyParadise Seriously. Especially in Wisconsin, where NOBODY jogs. It’s November! Put on your parka for pete’s sake!

@MaggieDammit I just saw a really old lady ‘jogging’ and it made me feel super lazy. So I decided she was jogging to hurt my feelings.

@MyMessyParadise She was. I’m sure of it. What an evil woman, that old lady jogger. I hate her.

Have I sunk this low that I now dislike people who exercise? That I think they are bundling up in the cold with their 75 year old bodies, not paying any attention to me, yet somehow sending me the signal that they know how sedentary my life has become? That they know how much time I spend exercising daily (zero minutes, if you’re wondering) and laugh behind my back?

Every day when I drive M to school, I see the same woman with a pink, double jogging stroller. She always has a little baby in there, wearing a hat, a cute blanket, looking happy as can be. Sometimes there is a sibling on the other side, sometimes not. Today, I saw the double stroller parked outside of school. Then I saw mom come out of school, holding the cute little baby, with the cute hat and blanket. She put her in the stroller and jogged away.

This woman gets up every day, gets everyone bundled and walks her oldest to school. She finds a way to fit it into her day. I can’t walk M to school an account of the busy route we’d have to take, but she really made me think. Am I really so busy that I can’t squeeze in 18 minutes a day to do the 30 Day Shred? No. I’m not. How about even easier and more fun? I could take our jogger (insert my hysterical laughter and Joe’s disapproving stare about me owning/purchasing a good jogging stroller) to school, bring M inside and then take Abs for a nice walk from the parking lot. It just needs to be a priority. Or enjoyable. Neither is true for me.

There is always an excuse. I don’t have cool, fit mom, jogging outfits. I don’t want Abs in the gym daycare (yes, laugh again. I pay for a gym) during flu season. I want that extra 30 minutes of sleep each morning.

In all seriousness, I really need to shape up. If not for my a$$, then for my health. I’m getting up in years and too smart to take my health for granted. I don’t want an eye opener in the form of a health scare or other problem that could have easily been avoided by moving my feet for a few minutes a day.

Cue the Rocky music. I’m going to do it. Starting Monday.

Jogging stroller? Check. Cute hat for Abs? Check. Stretcher for me when I finish my jog? Anyone? ANYONE?

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