Cutting out an addiction is much more challenging than forming a new one. Well, at least it certainly feels that way.

Week 2 of the interval jogging started today and I kicked it off at Greenlake Park. Going on a typical rainy Seattle Sunday afternoon meant that there weren't many people there. It might have also had something to do with the fact that the Seahawks were playing here at home against the Raiders {who still have yet to win a game this season.} Let's just say it was nice not having to weave in and out of a lot of people. If the weather continues to be like this, I may go to Greenlake more often.

The difficult part of adjusting to the time change is the fact that it gets dark much earlier, sort of all of a sudden, so you think it's still later than it is. It'll probably take me a couple more days to adjust fully, but I like when it gets dark early. This also means that I'll be forced to jog immediately after work, rather than napping first because I'll run out of daylight. The first obstacle will probably be next week, when the program starts introducing longer jogging intervals. I have yet to make it past week 5 day 1. I'm determined to do so this time around though.

I don't think I'll be going back to this therapist. He emailed me asking if we could push out our appointment time tomorrow to a time later than I'm willing to go out. If he's unable to regularly schedule me for an earlier time, then I'll look elsewhere. I had already told him what the latest I was willing to be out was; it's not my problem that that can't work for him. I'm not going to always worry as to when the appointment will be and if he's going to want to change it last minute. He introduced me to the book that I've been reading and it's actually helping me. It's also opened me up to other options in the same subject so now I know what to look for. Perhaps if I find myself falling in to another downward spiral sometime in the future, I'll look back in to therapy; with someone more reliable.

Until then, I continue reading and interval training, blogging and doing things that I want to do. For me.

It's unfortunate that this therapist isn't a good fit for you, but I'm glad the book is doing something at least.
» randomjunk on 2014-11-03 02:19:07

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