Exercise

Exercise is hard. It can be boring. It's something you have to repeat again and again your whole life through. As a programmer, I codify solutions to problems once and then I'm done and can move onto something else. Exercise is never solved. You have to tackle the same problems again and again and again. This is what makes exercise hard. I try to build in excitement by creating new challenges and exercising in new places. Sometimes it's not enough though. My sanity depends on getting exercise so when I stop I fall into a steady state of darkness from which getting back up the hill to a state of exercising is not easy. I want to build back up a steady state of running, but I think this probably requires finding a running buddy - something I've yet to do here.