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 Resolutionis.........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 that is the beginning of this blog I hope you enjoy and I look forward to your comments.

Krystin
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Days 125-127 A Long Weekend

Well Friday has arrived - which is really the start of the weekend - well at least we have the weekend to look forward to - right!!!!

Friday Day 125 - started early with a 30 minute spin class at the Y - why have a 30 minute spin class is beyond me - it takes me 30 minutes to warm up but I am trying to do a variety of cardio through out the week and spin is different then running - so it is a good workout to start and it gets me warmed up for the run on the treadmill after!!  I managed 30 minutes today - so a total of 60 minutes - which is really what my goal is now on days that I can fit it in :) 

Saturday Day 126 - did not get  up as early today - a little tired from staying up late waiting for Matthew and 2 of his friends to fall asleep - Matthew had a sleep over!  I did try out a new class at Active Life this morning - Push Your Pace/Metcon training - this was a completely different workout for me - felt like a guy workout - it included climbing ropes, throwing sand bags, push ups with our feet on the wall and lots of fast running.  It was hard but fun!  I then got out on my mountain bike for the first time this season.  A good little tour in 3 stages with Sarah - she got a new bike so we needed to break it in.  The weather has been so different this season that Sarah and I realized that we are 5 weeks earlier this year getting out on the trails then last year - and the conditions are like early summer!  Crazy considering that people, including my husband, have been mountain biking for weeks already?!?!?!  Felt good on the trails and I can't wait to get out there with the kids.




Sunday Day 127 - Sunday is fun day!  I love Sundays - slow starts, tea on the front porch, not checking my email and just hanging out with the family.  Today we started out the day with a hike/bike at 3 stages.  Well Sean and Kade went mountain biking and Matthew and I went hiking - Matthew can't ride his bike with the cast - although he really wanted to :)   It took Matthew and I just over an hour to work our way through some awesome trails that to be honest I have never hiked only biked - it is amazing how different they look when you walk them.  It was a beautiful day and Kade and Sean had a great ride too.

Kade


check out the trillium behind us!

I then got in a great 12 km run (just over an hour) with Heather - I so did not want to go for a run this afternoon but once we got started it was not so bad - the sun was out and the trails - which I am still discovering - are great in Collingwood.  We did an entire loop around Collingwood and only ran along a road for a very short part!  I now need to stretch!


Krystin
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