It marks the end of my GirlTrek challenge to walk/run 100 miles in June and...
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| Exhausted after a 6-mile walk/run but still smiling as I pose with my GirlTrek mile-tracker calendar for June! |
I did it!
I laced up my Nikes and pounded the pavement of my favorite trails all month long. Some days I walked two miles; some days I ran six. But in the end it all added up to 100 miles!
Today also marks the halfway point of my yearlong challenge to exercise every single day in 2014. I haven't missed a day yet!
Exercising for 181 consecutive days has taught me a lot about myself.
I've learned that I need both variety and routine. I get bored very easily. In fact, boredom pushed me to take on the GirlTrek 100-mile challenge. Believe it or not, exercising daily has become easy to do. M workouts are now as much of my daily routine as taking a shower or brushing my teeth. So I needed to spice things up a bit with an extreme challenge.
Yet, I still like the sense of routine that a challenge offers. I knew to meet my goal I needed to walk or run most days of the week and so there wasn't much wondering about what my workout of the day would be. So I learned that I like routine but I like to change up my routine every month or two.
I think I will apply this to my writing. As I said, I get bored easily -- even with my blog. Every month I come up with an idea for a new blog that I'm tempted to dump this one for. Instead, I think I will set a routine of blogging three days a week and do a different blog series every month or so in order to not get bored.
Variety truly is what helped me get through these 181 days of exercise.
I've spent many days walking and running on my favorite trail and even in community races such as the Color Me Rad 5K and the Girls on the Run 5K.
I've exercised at a boxing gym, a spin studio and in my living room.
And I've had fun every step of the way. Six months down. Six months to go.
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