Today is the first day of spring. The day when light and darkness exist in perfect equality. Balance. Harmony. Things we all could use a little more of.
The arrival of chocolate bunnies and tulips also signals the time to reinvigorate and renew things you might have otherwise neglected. Like your smoke detector, your swimsuit, and your workout.
Definitely change the batteries in your smoke detector if you were too busy to do this on March 10th because you were setting all your clocks forward an hour. Or if you live in Arizona, which like the Taliban, does not observe daylight savings time.
Swimming season (at least for the brave/foolish and those with a pool heater) begins here next week. Make sure your body hair and your swimsuit are ready.
Your workout. No better time than today to change up your workout routine. Maybe you've been stuck in the post-New Year's icepack, waiting for it to warm up so you can break free of your daily "routine". If it is routine, it shouldn't be.
Bored with what you are doing now, but not ready to breakup with it? Find some alternate exercises to substitute for what you have been doing. Ready to try something completely different? Then *ahem* "spring" into action and become an offroad unicyclist or free solo El Capitan. Or just start by changing up your running plan, or start swimming, or try out some CrossFit-type work.
I'm getting back on my bike, because it IS about the bike. I'm going to dial back my running to about 20 miles a week and add some trail running. And I'm going to try some SEALFit workouts. Because those guys are (were) the real deal.
Happy vernal equinox! What are you going to do?
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