I don't wanna get up

The alarm goes off, well not the alarm the puppy and he wants to get up and play but I feel tired and sleepy and just want to stay in bed.  The snooze button becomes my best friend, trying to play with the pup and keep my eyes closed.  Anything for just another 5 minutes.  Although I should come clean...I am not talking 4 or 5am, it is 6:30 am and I still feel whiny about having to get up.

This is what I remember is the really hard part about starting to exercise, the exhaustion.  Just that one hour of exercise last night and bam I feel like a truck ran over me.  Honestly I felt this way last week when all I was really doing was not drinking.  It was not until Thursday that I felt like I wanted to get up and felt refreshed.

All the guru's say that exercise makes you less tired and I seem to remember that being true just not in the beginning when you are desperately seeking motivation to actually do it.  I have a dream of actually working out in the morning instead of at night.  I used to run in the morning and loved it because I was done with it all day and the mornings tend to be cooler and nicer than the afternoons/evenings.

The lure of staying asleep in bed is just so strong...curled up under the blankets my eyes closed refusing to start the day.  How do I pry my sleepy resistant body out of bed and make it go exercise?  How will I not succumb to the whining my mind will do today, maybe tomorrow about being too tired to exercise?

My Runner's World quote of the day is really good:

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.  - Alan Robinson, 56-year-old partially paralyzed marathon runner 


Right?  Paralyzed marathon runner...and I complain about 1 hour of exercise.