Finishing Strong!

So, in the 2 months since running Alcatraz I have gotten in maybe 3-4 workouts - a couple runs, a bike ride, no swimming -- sad, sad, sad.

My solution to this slackery is, as usual, to go waaay overboard. Rather than try to ease back in, I am choosing to jump in with both feet, literally. From November 1 to January 1, I will be running every day.

The reason to make it an every day thing is to leave no room for saying "I'll get to it tomorrow..." - which is the phrase/attitude that keeps me on the sidelines day after day. Committing to every day means not putting off 'till tomorrow what must be done today AND tomorrow.

The Fine Print
Initially, this post was going to be written on November 1 - announcing the great undertaking. But I ran in the rain that day and picked up quite the chest cold and skipped the next 6 days. Poor start, no question, but not an ending to this deal.

Back on it as of yesterday - back to back two mile warm-up runs and stretches out at the Campbell Community Center track (CCC). Both under 21 minutes (pretty sad, I realize, but need to begin somewhere).

Goals:

• 62 straight days of running (already missed some of them). I figure 80% of the goal is a winner
• Drop the mile time back down into the 9's, possibly down into the 8's
• Run the Resolution Run in 44 minutes
• Pick up the belt loop I've lost over the last couple of months since Alcatraz
• Write often and poorly about the attempt
  

Progress:

• 3 days in (2 in a row)
• No movement on the belt loops
• Back and hammie stretching underway
• Blogging underway as well
  

I'll be reporting back and using this as a reason to blog about more than running and biking and swimming. Oddly enough running and writing have a very strong common bond in my mind - I hate writing/running, but love having written/run. We'll just have to see if forcing both of these for a couple months makes at least one of them come easier.