Up and at 'em!!

Got up really early this morning... 4:59 to be precise.. Got a message from Luds last night to ask if I wanted to go to the gym this morning.. I was planning on going after work but I thought.. why not?

Stepped through the doors at fernwood at 5:59 and was on the treadmil warming up by 6:05...

I did weights (upped them a bit so it hurt).. Then I hopped on the treadmil when Luds arrived for 1/2 an hour.. then I got off and went on che cross trainer for 10 mins and then hopped back on the treadmil for the rest of the hour...

I jogged for 7 mins straight in the first treadmill bracket and for 6 mins in the 2nd on 8.5kms.

I always get to 1 km and want to stop even though my body is actually doing okay! I was telling myself "your body feels good, you don't have to stop" but something just made me stop.. I could have gone to 10 mins I am sure.. so that is my new challenge.. to run for 10 mins straight!

I have to weigh tomorrow... I am scared.. I haven't weighed for 2 weeks! hmm... I have been going well with food but TTOM is suppoed to be tommorow and I feel sooo heavy this afternoon...

I am a student on placement in the statewide aquired brain injury unit at Melbourne Citymission.. We work with people in the 1st 2 years after getting a brain injury so it is pretty full on.. many people have had strokes or attempted suicide and ended up with a brain injury.. Went to a funeral today.. we had a client die on Monday.. it was someone I have been working with directly.. it's really hard... He got this condition called CIDP (not sure what it is) and went to hospital and got his brain injury through a bungled surgical procedure and died 12 months later after degenerating very quickly... It was so sad.. he was only 50.

RIP MB