Operation Healthy Balance

Remember last week, when I said "for the upcoming week I have three tiny goals.  They are:   1) Run twice  2) Workout with Sarah twice  3) Do 3 days of pushup sets". Well 2 out of 3 ain't bad.  I did manage to workout twice with Sara and to do my 3 days of pushup sets.  My total pushups for the week was 327 which seems insane but spread out over 3 days not so much.  Didn't get any runs in....booooo! I had some weather excuses on Saturday and on Sunday I was "busy" computer tracking my friend's husband on the computer who was running his first ironman in Arizona.  Very cool to watch his interval times pop up and to see him cross the finish line (OMG 11 hours later).   I definitely have to reevaluate this running thing.  I hate cold (cold early morning runs) and I am scared of the dark (after work runs).  If I start running at 6:30 am it is almost daylight.  I could easily get 5 km in or so I think  So...tomorrow....if...

Since I haven't completed two runs in the same weeks since um....early July, this past Monday I set myself a small goal.  The goal this week was to run twice.  Didn't matter about distance or speed, just run twice.  Sometimes smaller goals work best for me because then I don't get overwhelmed and when I complete the goal it feels good.  Not great, like a bigger goal would feel like, but good nonetheless. So, my two runs consisted of a 3 km short run and a 8.5 km longer run.  Two outings complete.  Done.  The longer run was done with Alyson and as much as it was nice to have a little company, it reminded me that I really prefer to run solo (however, this may change as distances increase and I get sick of being alone).  Time will tell. In other updates, I haven't been keeping up with my "100 pushup challenge" routine but I retested myself yesterday (so I could restart) and I can now do 40 consecutive pushups.  Before, I could make it to 26....

I've started to do pushups in an attempt to keep my arms from developing "lady wings".  A blog that I follow had this website posted a while back and I've decided to rise to the challenge. http://hundredpushups.com/ You basically do an initial test which informs you of where to start in the training.  You then do pushups 3 days of the week following the handy dandy little table.  I could do 26 pushups during my initial test so I got to start on week 3.  So in just 4 weeks I should be able to do 100 pushups without stopping. In other news, my husband laughed at me when I couldn't do 30 pushups.  I bet him he couldn't do 40 and then he proceeded to do over 50.  How's that for motivation!!