Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Divide and conquer

We planned a wonderfully wacky Friday from bagels with friends at 6:00 am, to Educator Night at Fernbank's Martinis and IMAX in the evening. The middle portion of the day included: teaching, working on a research project, attending Jumma, and jogging with the Running Club for the first time since the new school year. Wow, what a day!

Part of the perfect plan involved exercising at 4:30 am. In an abnormal sequence of events I did not get up until a few minutes before 5:00. Thus, exercise was out as I had to get across town for the bagel gathering. Travel time between midday events never left enough time for a full 30 minutes of exercise, then clean up and get to the next place.

 So, I divided and conquered. First, I ran 2.2 miles cleaned up and went to the next stop on the agenda. Afterwards I put up another three miles with the Running Club. The split decision was a new one for me, and it worked pretty well. All the day's events came together perfectly.  Funny, enough we have a very similar plan for this week. The only difference is that it's Educator Night at the Carlos Museum. I hope to get up on time this go around.

The most common reason people give for not exercising is lack of time. Divide and conquer. Do whatever it takes. Run.

Tom

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