Soooo, I need to plan timing. Every weekend is different and must be flexible. Also, waking up for an early morning run (because that's the best time weather-wise or the only time it can be fit in) might mean not over-doing the night before... which means leaving the party early or not having too many drinks....
Well, I'm still trying to figure all this out... All the timing and how Fitness fits in. Family and Friends now accept and ask when I'm doing whatever I have planned - so that's much easier than the incredulous stares of a year ago and suggesting other things. Folks are more accepting if I will be late or can't do something til an hour later or if I plan to leave an hour early.
But the goal of this post and what I intended to capture... and spent the last 3 paragraphs just skirting around.... is that Fitness does have a place. Everyone does not want to hear or even care about that last run or the H.I.I.T. class that you just killed. They want to talk about other things. I've been so focused this last year on what I want to do, what I'm now able to do, and what I've done as well as fitting it all in fitness-wise, that it has been almost an obsession. I've met and become more friendly with some totally awesome people; but I still need to maintain all the relationships I already have. What did we talk about before? What did we do before? Do I have time for that now?
And then I ask, are people changing around me? Maybe because of me? The Juliets (my Ladies Weekend Crew) took a Hula-Hoop class this year and are all signed up to do a line dancing class this fall. Did I have any influence on that? We've never done physical activities besides walking before. Next weekend is another Ladies Weekend and we are bringing bikes.... for the very first time... I might even do a 5K while there -- which Debby suggested to me.
So analysis... and I analyze as I write... tells me that maybe I don't need to keep it separate... Maybe I can bring others along for the ride. But for some reason, I've become very conscious lately of not sharing or not talking too much about what I'm doing. YUP, it's a huge part of my life now... a part that I work continually to figure out how to fit in... but a part that others may not always want to hear about....
A new kind of balancing act... a new kind of scale .... Share, but maintain other, prior interests as well ... all the time fitting in what I now want to do... all the time not neglecting what others want to do.