Habits & Goals

I haven't run for a while, I am bad. However on June 1st I ordered 30 Day Shred on Amazon. I especially liked that I get the DVD, but more importantly the streaming video on Amazon Instant. So I was able to immediately get into it.

I know this blog is for running but I just wanted to talk a little about making goals and other exercise that I'm doing. I am implementing Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret for 3 goals: 30 Day Shred or other exercise, flossing, and arriving to work on time & ready to go (= wake at 5am instead of 5:30 = enough time to do make-up, park on street & walk 10 mins instead of wasting $5 on garage, arrive at work before or at 7am ready to work!) The point is to string Xs together and "don't break the chain" of Xs. Although I realized that my third goal only applies to 5 days a week, so it will be more like groups of Xs than a chain... Oh well!

I am on the third day of the 30 Day Shred and I look forward to doing it again today. Yesterday I was very sore and put it off until 7pm but finally just sucked it up and did it. I googled around and read that other people felt the DVD didn't have enough stretching afterwards so I did more of that and feel much better today. I feel stronger already, it's awesome! I plan to incorporate running back into my routine on Saturday morning. We leave for vacation on Sunday so I can't join in on the group running in Greenbelt until next Sunday. I wish I weren't so slow because I feel bad for slowing others down!