October 2010 Challenge Declaration

[muck_a_luck]

As promised last week, here is the October Challenge Declaration Post!

Challenge yourself for October! Find a fitness goal that you want to achieve, that you can achieve, with diligence, in one month.

Declare your goal by October 1, then on October 31 we will have a roundup of how we all did!

The goal can be simple, like being able to run a mile by the end of the month (even slowly!).

It can be progressive, like moving from wall pushups to floor pushups.

It can be process oriented, like trying to exercise 25 of the next 31 days.

Try to make it something YOU want that is challenging but doable.

If you want to participate and you just can't think of anything, check out what everybody else posts, then copy somebody! :D

I also offer a generic challenge: Achieve 20 pushups in a row at 45 degrees or lower.

If this works out and people like it, I'm thinking we might make this a monthly event, with a challenge declaration post around the 26th, and a challenge results post on the last day of each month.

So let's get started!

Comments

[codyne]

My goal is to continue training for the Las Vegas Half Marathon on December 5, and not miss any of my scheduled runs. I run/walk three times a week, using a 30:60 second run/walk ratio. I do two maintenance runs of two miles each, and one longer run. The long runs alternate between mileage-increasing runs and shorter recovery runs. For October, my long runs will be 9.5, 4, 11, and 4 miles. (The last week in October, I'll be out of town, and have scheduled the time off into my training.)

Runs are followed by 4x15 crunches (two sets of regular and two sets of oblique crunches), 2x15 pushups (currently on the counter, but I may try to move to the floor in a week or so and/or increase the number of sets), and 10 minutes of yoga-type stretches.

I've been training for 8 weeks already and haven't missed a run/walk yet, so I'm hoping to keep it up all the way to Las Vegas!