A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Janathon today was inspired by Knittingpenguin’s tweet at how she was only going to run a mile, because she wanted her tea.  I too didn’t want to run, so I copied her & ran a mile too. She ran it quicker than me, head over to her blog & see how much she beat me by!

My record mile was set last #Juneathon at 11:09.

It still stands, I missed it by about a minute, 12:02. I admit it, I walked up the hill over the railway bridge. I think I’ll plan a route that has no hill & then try again on another day.

I’m tired & eating rubbish, and craving junk & sweets & comfort food. As much as I don’t want to do it, I’m going to have to start either logging my food on MyFitnessPal or just in my notebook, at least for a week or 2. I’m also thinking about getting a veg box delivered each week, this *might* encourage me to eat more fruit & make some soup instead of cheese on toast!

I’m going to have to come up with some cunning ways to hide veg in food, as my husband claims that all veg is vile & he can tell if it’s in his meal, also soups / stews aren’t meals, they’re snacks.

Better get googling eh?

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

I nearly couldn’t be bothered. I nearly stayed at home and stayed warm and just counted the #PlankaDay as my Janthon effort.

But then my friend said he’d drive me to the gym and so I went.

I rowed, I ran then I cross trained.

Then I entered it all into Fitocracy & level’d up! I’m now level 13! (If you’ve no idea what I’m going on about then I posted here about it)

Today’s Janathon effort was a race against my daughter, all 67m up the street, in 26 seconds. She’s all elbows when we race up the street, determined to win, she even screams “ready steady GO!” when she’s already started running.

I didn’t do anything more because I’m a wuss & the weather was horrible.

I still did my Plank a day though, and the leg challenge for #FitTeam12, so it hasn’t been a total write off.

Now I’m sitting down with a plate full of macaroni & cheese waiting for Biggest Looser to start!

Be Miserable. Or Motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

– Wayne Dyer

There’s a danger to Janathon that goes further than getting totally exhausted from all the running. It’s part of the double edged sword that is the fabulous Janathon community, with twitter & the blog reading.

Last night, whilst my husband and some friends were watching UFC and all were screaming at the TV like crazy children, I was clicking my way through some of the Janathon blogs. It was while reading Moving along‘s blog that the insanity struck .

So yes, I’m doing #fitteam12 as well as #plankaDay & Janathon.  I’m a fool! I must be.

Two things I learnt today.

1) if you do squats standing with your toes about 3 inches in front of a wall then you’re not going to be able to have really bad form, which is why I normally have really sore knees after doing squats.

2) It’s really easy to Plank

ANYWAY! Tonight’s run was another “Beat last year”

2011 2.98km in 30:40

vs

2012 3.09km in 29:08

“It is easier to resist at the begining than at the end” – Leonardo da Vinci

Both done & I feel much smugger here typing up the blog than I did whilst out running / planking in the living room!

Doing the log part of Janathon last year was the most annoying part of the whole event last year, the blogging was the hardest, but looking through the settings off the RunningFree site this afternoon allowed me to see what I did last year & also how fast/slow I did it.

That’s why today’s 1st Janathon effort was a calculated 2.6km in 21:38. Last year I ran 2.57km in 26 min.

I’m quite proud that I did it 5 min faster! That’s like a 20% improvement on 2011, if I keep that up  my 10k time would be about 1hr 4 min, and I could run my next marathon in about 5 hours!

#Plankaday was horrible, I’ve never done a plank before & had to look up on youtube how to do it. I managed 34.8seconds, that was 34 seconds of PURE AGONY!

In other Millie news I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. I found it was more of a timesuck than anything & it was mostly just another way for people at work to badger me. I don’t work for Subway any more & so I’ve just decided to end it there.  Plus I’ve got so much more out of Twitter; Janathon, Juneathon, Aug30DS, Plankaday, to name just the fitness motivation.

Here’s to 2012, and to shifting the last 38lbs I want rid of!

The Dude

I’m starting #Janathon tomorrow, I’m also thinking of doing #PlankaDay too.

‘Cause I’m an idiot.