New Years Resolution

So as we all head into the new year we are all faced with the concept of New Years resolutions.  Oh I have made them before only to fall short of my goal as life (family and work) take over my good intentions.  So this year I decided to get my friend Angela involved in my New Year resolution so that I have to be accountable to someone other than myself.  Oh, I guess this would be a good place to tell you what my New Years Resolution is.........well the plan is to be physically active for a minimum of 30 minutes for all 365 days of the year.  That is right every single day of 2012.  So now you might be asking why are you blogging about it?  Well Angela and I were trying to figure out how to keep each other on track, she lives in London and I live in Collingwood.  We tried google calendar but that was really frustrating and then Angela sent me an excel sheet that had dates on it and that is not that much fun.  So when I was snowshoeing the other day I thought to myself maybe I should blog about our efforts - make us accountable not only to each other but anyone else who might be interested in what we are up to.

So as you can see by the date it is Monday January 9th - nine days into 2012 and what have I been up to?  Here is a quick overview of the last nine days and how I have been active.

• January 1st - 45 minute run with friend Roxanne in the rain - did clear out the New Years Eve cobwebs!
• January 2nd - snow shoe with friends at Osler Bluff Ski Club - up the escarpment.
• January 3rd - a 45 minute brisk walk to a dinner party!
• January 4th - went to a spin class at the YMCA with hubby Sean.  Instructor did not show up but the volunteer who filled in got us sweating for a good hour :)
• January 5th -well this one was the hardest one - went to dinner at a friends house and got home late and had still not done my minimum 30 minutes - my son Matthew reminded me as he headed to bed that I needed to get out there and get my 30 minutes in - so off I went for a 30 minute walk at 10 pm!
• January 6th -  9 am Cardio Mix workout with Robin at Active Life Conditioning http://www.activelifeconditioning.com/  and then hockey with the girls Friday night - so much fun and lots of laughs!
• January 7th - this was an outdoor day for sure - an early morning snow shoe with friends up the escarpment at Osler Ski Club - love it (if you want to join us let me know).  Then that night we went to a snow shoe party - started with a snow shoe (with the whole family and friends) up the north end of Blue Mountain Resort.  That's right up again only this time I was with my 7 and 10 year old boys - who by the way made it all the way up - so proud!!!  Then back to the Gordon Base Lodge for bevies and appies.  So much fun.  We had good timing too - the Toronto Ski Club was having an event and we just happened to be heading up the hill when an enormous firework show started - it was almost like we planned it!!

• January 8th - a nice 7 km run with Roxanne in the sun.
• Today - the beginning of my 8 week program at Active Life - 6:15 Ladies Conditioning Class.  Great workout just not really back to getting up so early.

So there you have it - what I have been up to for the past week.  This blog thought has evolved as I plan it out with my husband Sean - the sounding board - this is going to be a place where I talk about what I have done to be active everyday but I am going to be including what you can do too.  What is happening in our area, places you can go with your friends and family to enjoy our area and the great outdoors, activities that are out there for us to take advantage of and who knows what else I might be able to share over the course of this year.

Krystin