October weekly challenge/check-ins!

[blnchflr]

Welp, since there wasn't a stampede for taking on October, I'll try out an alternate format this month:

Every Monday (today being a very late first Monday), I'll ask what you hope to accomplish exercise-wise this week.

The following Monday I'll ask how it went, and what's on the agenda/wish-list for the coming week.

So, what do you hope to accomplish this week, some of which you may already have accomplished, it being Friday?

Comments

[blnchflr]

I hope to get in three training runs before my race this weekend (spoiler-alert: check!).

And to race this weekend, but waking up with a very sory throat and heavy head this morning does not bode well :/

[semielliptical]

Sorry that you're getting sick! What unfortunate timing. :(

[blnchflr]

Yeah, it sucks, I was looking forward to this race and hoping for a PR. But the way I feel today, it's not going to happen. Will see about giving my bib number away to someone else.

[meri_oddities]

Well, I hope to get 2-3 more runs in before the race on the 12th. Also 2 more activity hours.

[blnchflr]

Best of luck - I plan next check-in on Monday already, so you might not be there yet :)

[semielliptical]

As of Monday morning, I would have said that I planned to run 36 miles this week. But then I got sick, so now I'll say...12 miles?

[blnchflr]

Oh yay, partner in illness :/

[alexseanchai]

My plan as of Monday was to go for 20-30-min walks four days of the week. (I tried the first day of the running program last week. It went poorly. I told a family friend who runs competitively and she wtfed a lot and told me to stick with serious walking for a while.) I did on Tuesday. I meant to yesterday but my knee decided it wasn't playing so I didn't. (I spent the whole work day yesterday going ow ow ow every time I had to walk the four steps to the printer. So not going walking was probably a wise choice.) I don't think I will today and I don't know if I will Saturday or Sunday like I mean to.

[blnchflr]

It sucks when your body isn't up for the exercise your mind is :(

If you're not naturally active, it's the hardest thing in the world, but if you can do other types of exercises that don't strain your knee, it can help your conditioning, but even more your mind. Letting myself do mini exercises has worked very well for me.

For example, it'd be awesome to get up to 100 squats a day, but if that's my goal, I get overwhelmed and disheartened and end up not doing any. So instead I have to do 7 squats 3 times a week. I can do that - and in practice, I usually do more, too, but the stated and super-duper ok goal has to be only 7 squats, so it always seems doable :)

(I wish someone had told me this as a kid/teen, *sigh*.)

[ilanarama]

My goal for last week was to run more than 50 miles (which I haven't yet) and run a nice trail run while in Pagosa Springs on Friday (which I did, it was amazing).

[blnchflr]

Mmm, that sounds nice.