First, I don’t make resolutions, but it flowed better than “a commitment and resistance training”, right?

Ok, so I don’t need to go to a gym for resistance training, I just need to go outside and take a walk! Oh my goodness! I decided to take a walk this afternoon, I probably should have gone in the morning because the wind was whipping so hard, it was almost like walking in a pool, that much resistance.

The first thing that happened was I got pushed by the wind, ran a little, then I decided it was too windy to go the way I had just come, so I walked around and then there goes my baseball cap! People were nice enough to not run over it with their cars when it flew into and down the road. Next, there was a woman who lives at the retirement home near me and she was struggling against the wind so much, trying to carry her packages. I asked if she would like to hold on to me, I took her bags and then she held on to me for dear life! She was tiny, both in stature and size, I could have seen her blowing away!

Once she got a grip on my arm, she didn’t let go, so I walked her to the door backwards, good for my glutes! She held on to me and her hair, luckily she didn’t lose either! I made it home, only losing my hat one more time before I turned it around, brim in the back, that seemed to help!

So, this leads me to my next statement, a commitment. You know I’ve been walking/running for quite a while, well, I haven’t done either in a while, got out of the habit and I’m kicking myself for that, I can feel it, blah. I have some races coming up and I’d like to get back into e habit of walking and running on a daily basis and eventually work up to running a full 5k and then some.

I was thinking about it and I remembered January 6th of last year, making a commitment to you and me that I would blog for a year, why can’t I make a similar commitment on a smaller scale? I am committing to walking one mile per day for thirty days, if I’m up to it, I may run a mile as well. After thirty days, if I haven’t increased my walk, I am going to commit to walking/running two miles a day for thirty days and so on. Not sure I’ll get up to twelve miles a day, but I will get to a comfortable place and pace.

It takes twenty one days to form a habit, here goes mine! I got day one down, here’s to tomorrow!