Friday, March 11, 2011

Buzzer Shot

The Alarm was set last night at 10:00.  We had the discussion about whether or not we were going this morning.  If we weren't, I was going to stay up a little later and keep working on my class.  We agreed and headed on to bed.

At 4:30, some twangy country song filled our room.  Our alarm clock only seems to pickup country stations and I refuse to wake up to the wah-wah-wah. 

James got up and headed to the bathroom.  I didn't really move from my spot.  He came back in, and asked "Are we going?"  I sighed, rolled over, and complained that I felt like I had just crawled in bed.  He said "We'll get back on track on Monday."  He reset the alarm for 6. 

A few minutes later, I was feeling guilty.  I didn't get my run in last night - not for laziness.  I just didn't have enough time.  I had other priorities last night and it got put on the back burner to "I'll get to it if I can."  I didn't.  I tried to convince myself I'd skip lunch today, leave early and try to get to the last class of the day.

I compromised that if I rolled over and looked at the clock and it was still before 4:40, I'd get up.  Roll over.  4:41.  YES!  I thought.  Wait?  I'm excited that I'm not going to workout?   Wait, too much thought is really going into this.  Get.Your.Lazy.Arse.Up.

So, I announced to the room as I through back the covers, I was going!    James may or may not have grunted at me.  But, I quickly dressed, through on my running shoes (because I knew we were running this morning) and headed out the door.  IS thought she won.  But, it was like a fade away jump shot as the time expired - nothing but net. 


On time for class.  Really hard workout.  Got it done.

Inner Sloth - 0; Lauren - 2!

4 comments:

  1. for me, it was ALL about routine when i had my pre-5AM wake-up time. i got myself up by reminding myself it would be MUCH harder to get back to the routine if i broke it. this def proved true the few times i caved....esp if i did so more than once and it wasn't a TRUE need (sometimes it IS good to sleep...but it is hard to read your body before dawn).

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  2. Yay!!! That's awesome, nice job!

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  3. HA HA! Good for you winning the battle with yourself :) I am constantly negotiating with myself much like the 4:40, 4:41 compromise. Too funny.

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