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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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Days 359 to 363 - Happy Holidays

Well here we are the week of Christmas.  Busy times - people to see, places to go and workouts to do!  Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday and are giving some serious thoughts about thier New Year Resolutions.  This has been one of the biggest commitments that I have undertaken ever - I mean in terms of sticking to it 100% - that is not 1 day missed.  There were days that I really did not feel like getting out there - it would be late, cold, raining, snowing etc.  but I did every time and you know I felt great both physically and mentally.  I did have a great support network - my kids - always making sure I got it in, Sean (hubby) late night walking partner, my workout friends, the Active Life ladies and my faithful blog followers - thanks so much everyone that was quite a ride.  Now I don't have any idea how I will top this - although I do know that I plan on continuing with this one (they say it takes 30 days to start a new habit - so I can't just stop now it has become such a big part of my everyday) 
 
Monday - Day 359 - Christmas Eve Day - this is a busy day for us - our family hosts an annual Christmas Eve Open House - so there was lots of stuff to day in preparation.  So in anticipation of a crazy day I got out early with Lorraine for a 5 km run and walk - we ran for 30 minutes and walked for 30 minutes - the walk sort of happened because we were still talking after the run and figured we might as well keep exercising. 
 
Tuesday - Day 360 - Merry Christmas - another day where we were pulled in a million directions - Sean and I managed to fit in great 45 minute walk just before dinner to clear our minds and bellies!
 
Wednesday - Day 361 - Boxing Day - no shopping for me - just cleaning of the house and visiting with my mom and aunt.  Snuck in a 6 km run to help with the sugar cravings - didn't really work though - but the legs felt good!
 
Thursday - Day 362 - well woke up to over a foot of snow - a foot of snow that I needed to clean off my car to get my 6:15 am Active Life workout - felt good to get up early and to get in a strength workout.
 
Friday - Day 363 - we are at a hockey tournament (both boys - oddly enough just 15 minutes away from each other near Alliston) so there was lots of sitting around and watching the kids have some great skating time.  Between a couple of the games Heather and I got out for a great brisk (speed and temperature) walk for 45 minutes - thanks Heather for helping me get to the finish line.
 
Krystin
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