Tuesday 2 November 2010

Its easier this year

41 today, and this birthday feels a whole lot easier than last year's. Turning 40 was grim, as was turning 30 before it. Funny that as a great many people aren't bothered by it yet for some reason these milestones did bother me. That's a contrast to New Year for example, where I couldn't care two hoots about the evening or the change of year.

Last day of my leave today so, despite the grey weather and rain, I did the prescribed run and running drills on a section of the Leeds Country Way near home and then headed off to the gym for 25 minutes swimming and a skinny latte to follow. I'm glad I went. I enjoyed the swim and there was some sort of mother and (very young) baby session going on in the pool and the babies absolutely loved it - that was really nice to see.

That's exercise done for the day (and it really does sound horrible out now) so aside from ferrying the kids round my only remaining plans for the day are to eat a Chinese takeaway and probably a large quantity of cake as from tomorrow its very much back on track diet wise...!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Happy birthday, enjoy the chinese - good choice!

Alison said...

What kind of cake?

I don't think these milestones really bother me. But I might feel differently once I'm the wrong side of one of them..

Good luck come tomorrow morning!

Running Rob said...

It was a Victoria sponge with buttercream and jam in the middle - I'd say I got through 2/3 of it.