I´ve been feeling sligthly depressed lately, depressed and tired and frustrated and waiting for a chance to fly away. An impossible idea but how tempting it is... Tonight I had a forcing urge to fly around and so I took the bike and rode around the city for a couple of hours. It is one hilly town, being the most central of Central Finland, and it is an old, heavy, un-geared Jaguar I was riding. But the excercise was good for the anger and frustration inside me and the girl who returned was much calmer than the one that left.
I have been talking about the need to move with some people and found out that it is not only me who feels the unbearable want to use one´s muscles, to do something physical regularly. I become restless without excercise, restless and useless and irritated and there is nothing like the feeling after a well done workout. I dance for dancing, not for the excercise, but the workout belongs to the package and I have learned to love it, and even need it. Sometimes I just need to move.
I used to go running, which is a bit like flying, always my dream. I did not run all the time but some summers quite frequently still, until last year there came a doctor who pointed out it would be unwise of me to continue running too much. Due to the fact I teach Irish dancing that requires much jumping and therefore demands some unhuman attributes of my knees and ankles, I gave up my morning runs. However, ever since I have sometimes felt the old urge for running and could not do anything. Maybe now I have found it; I think I will take another bike trip again some time. It is not as enjoyable as running, nor as good excercise as a class of ballet or Irish, but at least one gets the extra energy out.
But tomorrow morning something else: finally the swimming hall is open again! Thank you for the end of the Finnish pride of summer, nature, and swimming in the lake. I am not too keen on this persistent attitude. I saw Jaws while too young and am still afraid of the sharks in Keitele.
I have been talking about the need to move with some people and found out that it is not only me who feels the unbearable want to use one´s muscles, to do something physical regularly. I become restless without excercise, restless and useless and irritated and there is nothing like the feeling after a well done workout. I dance for dancing, not for the excercise, but the workout belongs to the package and I have learned to love it, and even need it. Sometimes I just need to move.
I used to go running, which is a bit like flying, always my dream. I did not run all the time but some summers quite frequently still, until last year there came a doctor who pointed out it would be unwise of me to continue running too much. Due to the fact I teach Irish dancing that requires much jumping and therefore demands some unhuman attributes of my knees and ankles, I gave up my morning runs. However, ever since I have sometimes felt the old urge for running and could not do anything. Maybe now I have found it; I think I will take another bike trip again some time. It is not as enjoyable as running, nor as good excercise as a class of ballet or Irish, but at least one gets the extra energy out.
But tomorrow morning something else: finally the swimming hall is open again! Thank you for the end of the Finnish pride of summer, nature, and swimming in the lake. I am not too keen on this persistent attitude. I saw Jaws while too young and am still afraid of the sharks in Keitele.