Goodbye Spuds

Tomorrow is the first of September, and I am ready to get back on the fitness wagon. The temperatures have dropped a bit and I am hoping we are all ready to begin the couch potato to 10K in twenty weeks program. At least I am going to attempt this project.

Before we were all talking about doing this program together and running in a 10K together and having a fun girls weekend afterward. We ran into the snag of it being too hot to train. Now we are running into the snag of finding a 10K to run in together. Getting time away from family and the expense of travel is a coveted treasure for most of us and perhaps running in a 10K is not enough of an incentive to use up this coveted treasure. Especially when we have the opportunity to run in 10K's in our local area for free or for not very much money. Not everyone has enough confidence in the program that they would be able to actually run 10 Kilometers. And some of us just don't run.

Kim had a lovely suggestion, that we get together at the Mall of America. This got me to thinking that perhaps it would be fun for us to plan a get together that is not revolved around a 10K. I am not really a shopper, but the Mall of America is a fine choice. Perhaps we can have two separate things going on here. One is a get together, the other is a living more healthy support group.

For the support group, we can each of a set a goal for taking better care of ourselves. My goal will be to run in a 10K, I can do that here locally. Your goal can be something else. I can write a post about our group one day a week, say Monday. We can all talk about our progress, our setbacks, give advice, commiserate, whatever.

For the get together, it could be in celebration of meeting our goal, or it could be a completely separate thing. We can pick a place and find a way to do it for a reasonable cost and have ourselves a girls weekend.

I have fallen out of love with the Spuds Gone Wild, does anyone have a better suggestion? Does anyone like this idea of an online support group, where we each set a personal goal (fitness, eating, weightless, peace of mind)and we talk about our progress on Mondays. A little support a little accountability. It is every so embarrassing to set a goal and have to admit that you are a slacker.