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, June 17, 2012

The 5 Km Challenge - Days 163 to 167

This week I decided I would challenge myself - a challenge of running a minimum of 5 kilometres everyday during the week!

Day 163 - Monday - I slept in and had a horrible day at work - one of those days were you are really busy but don't seem to get anything accomplished!  That included my workout - I also needed some motivation so I called a friend on the off chance that she would be available at 9pm in the evening to go for a run - she was - we got in a great 5 km - my goal - then I ran home with her and continued to complete a 10 km run - they say when you feel good you should just keep going - that is what I did and it was great!

Day 164 - Tuesday - the day started out with a great workout at Actvie Life. Then in the evening - after soccer and rugby and getting the kids to bed I managed to get out for a 5 km run - so still able to stay on track for completing the challenge.

Day 165 - Wednesday - This morning was a metcon run - a run along the metcon adventure race course - up and across Blue Mountain Resort - it was a little easier this morning - the legs and lungs did not give out as early.  Got in my 5km run!

Day 166 - Thursday - Good Morning Active Life workout - so tired this week! but still managed to make it to the early morning workout.  It was a good one too!  Then after the kids left for school I headed out the door for my 5 km run - managed to push it to 7.5km!

Day 167 - Friday - today is a short day as we, the Rennie clan, headed to TO right at 4pm to get to a world cup rugby game - Canada vs. Italy.  My husband Sean is the head coach of the Georgian Bay Titan mini rugby program and he set up a trip for the kids to go to the game and be apart of the pre-game and half time program.  Some of the kids walked onto the field and sang the national anthems with the players and some kids, including Kade and Matthew, played an exhibition game at half time.  What an experience for the kids and I can honestly say that I really enjoyed it too!

Kids waiting to go on field with rugby players


So the day was busy getting organized for the evening event so it had to be an early workout this morning.  So it started with a core and strength workout at Active Life and then a difficult and what seemed like forever 5km run.  Mission Accomplished!!!

Krystin
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