I don't do well sans routine, especially when it comes to working out. I can't just willy nilly decide that I'll run today and not know what's slated for tomorrow. But that's been my approach for the last month.

And it's worked out - HA! - OK, but I need to feel as though I have a schedule. There has to be rhyme and reason to what I'm doing. Especially since I'm still currently without a gym home. I need to remedy that, and it needs to be a gym somewhere close, but until I'm more flush with cash, which won't be for another month or so, I'm left to my DVDs and running outside.

I decided to pick up the ol' Couch-to-5K training schedule and make it my own. But then I realized that I'm probably a little more advanced than that and I can run 3.5 miles without blinking, making such a program a little ridiculous. So then I thought maybe what I ought to do is challenge myself with something new.

Enter the 10K training program.

I need to go out and map out the distance in my neighborhood to do it, but that's not a big deal. I've gotten rather fond of running outside in my neighborhood, which has been a surprise. I've never really liked running outside at all. But something is clicking with it, with me, now. Which is good since it doesn't cost me a dime. On one off day I'll do a FIRM tape, and then rest on the other. Probably rest on Friday. I hate working out on Friday's. Friday's are evil days to workout.

My good friend, Nicole, gave me the scoop on a new WW deal launching this week which, hopefully, will extend until the end of the month when I plan to go back to meetings. Well, September 2, to be exact. It looks as though I can buy the WW Monthly Pass and it'll do the job, including getting me my online access back, which expires on the 22nd.

That's about it for now. Have a good weekend.

Posted by Erin at 04:55 PM | filed under: Training

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