Day Fifteen

I've hit the halfway mark! I'm really satisfied so far with what I've done - in over 2 weeks I've only missed one day. Plus my mileage is above and beyond what I had been hoping. I've run my first race and I've made some good progress on half marathon training so all is well.

The reason I wanted to do this was because of something I learned in school a few years ago - the psychology of acts becoming habits. The brain loves to categorize, and the theory is that if you do something for about 21 days it becomes categorized as a habit rather than as a repeated single act. The number of days varies person to person and how extreme of an act; for example, (to generalize) it takes someone who is moderately active much less time to make exercise a habit than someone who has never been active. I was in a good routine of running a few days every week but I wanted to achieve two things: 1) run more often, and 2) make it less of an internal shoulder angel vs shoulder devil struggle to get my butt out the door. 21 days was kind of a random number, so I decided to go ahead and make it an honest month.

So, here's to another 15 days! It will get tricky around Thanksgiving - I'll have 2 travel days, ugh - but if I can go 14/15 I'll be more than satisfied. And here's to good habits!

Today I had a great day and a great run. My longest in a while and it felt sooooooooo good. My body feels good after this one, and after the first two weeks in general, so that's another big positive. I've certainly gotten a LOT stronger this month with so much less rest. My legs are getting closer and closer to soccer legs again! Which is both a blessing and a curse... I don't want to get to the point where I have to go up a jeans size because my quads get too big! And I'm starting to have the ever-so-slightest bit of definition in my abs. Six pack by this summer? Hope so!!!

So, today...

Today: 9 miles

Total: 55.5 miles