Can't stop, Won't stop!!

It’s been about a month since the intensity of my training effort has increased and I have had to make slight modifications to my eating plans to incorporate the weight loss but so far so goodJ It’s amazing how I now have so much passion for training for all things fitness and weight loss such that to some it may seem like a borderline obsession with keeping fit when it has become pure enjoyment. I am enjoying this part of life and it is slowly becoming a lifestyle. It does help when you are surrounded with people that share in similar passions, as you get to encourage each other and explore different things together.

I’ve been lucky enough that I have a significant other that loves this whole fitness thing and he’s been quite instrumental in making sure that I keep up with my training regime even at times when I actually don’t feel like it and also makes sure that I eat right (when he’s watching! Laughs out loud to self!).

Such is our deepened love to be fit and healthy that we entered this year’s Discovery/702 Walk the Talk. This is the biggest annual walking event in the Southern Hemisphere with different categories of kilometres that people can walk. It’s a fun walk and everyone gets a medal when it’s all said and done. I have entered this walk in previous years but at a maximum walking distance of 5km. This year we decided that since we’d been doing a fair amount of training that 15km walk wouldn’t hurt nobody!

 

Never under estimate what a walk can do to the body! The walk was quite a challenge, not the walk in the park that I thought it would be, the steep inclines were quite a challenge and at some point I wondered if I would make it through the finish line. My significant other was cruising all the way up while I took longer to catch my breath! After almost 3 hours we made it through the finish line together with the 12 odd thousand people we started the race with. We came, we saw and we conquered!

The walk however left us knackered to a point where it took 2 days to recover and get back into our normal state with slight aches still present. This however was not a deterrent as we had resumed our daily training schedules in no time. I even managed to fit in a quick 2,2km run round the block early evening with my good buddy Ms Stuart. I am proud that our fitness journey has come thus far and we are doing it big. We do it because we enjoy it and hope that maybe somewhere along the lines we will inspire others to do the same if not better. We can’t stop and won’t stop. Always keeping it real! #TeamFitness.