I'm just getting back into the groove of things, so I am shooting for 50 miles this month.

I'm not taking vacation to hike a long ways, but I should probably try for 160 again regardless... and try to get it in on the weekends. It is really easy to say that, since it is getting cold, I should expect fewer miles, but... bad excuse.

We finally made the decision to buy a treadmill, I'm hoping it will help alleviate those cold December - February runs, and keep me motivated to run. My daughter and I are running a 5K tomorrow, (it will be very chilly) and another Christmas 5K run December 19. It's nice to have a running buddy even though she outruns me by far. My new Garmin is arriving today, which makes my daughter happy because she gets my old one. I'm super excited to test it out tomorrow! I hope you all have a great weekend and gets lots of exercise in :-)

Slow start for me, too. I got invited to a work week challenge on Fitbit by a friend, so that should help kickstart my week.

Made my goal minutes instead of miles, since I do all kinds of different cardio and I'd rather track that way. Get busy, girls!

I'm not doing so well this month.

Here is my plan, though:

Friday - I took the day off for a dr. appt. out of town. I researched and found a good trail to run in that town, so after my appt., I can go run. If I follow the route as planned, it will take a bit over 3 hours and I'll have around 14 miles from that. The biggest risk is how much water will be in low areas and how cold and fast it is since there has been some flooding in that area recently. This should leave enough time in the afternoon / evening to get some shopping done (my wallet is screaming this month, as I'm sure is happening to a lot of people). I'll walk around stores / malls and park far away to get some additional miles.

Sat. - Don't know yet, but might just go hiking or trail running.

Sun. - I don't know, but probably won't get much exercise done. I don't think I have anything else planned, though, so I really should run or hike.

After that, I have 12/24-12/27 off from work. I'll probably get some cleaning done at home, as I am going into an extremely busy time from Jan. - Apr. and want to start out looking decent with all the little things handled like doing some deep cleaning at home, getting prepped for taxes, etc. I also hope to get out to see some family on 12/25, and maybe can get a trail run or hike done that day. In any event, I hope to get exercise in at least 1 of those days... maybe 2.

I also have 12/31 off from work and probably 12/30 (it depends on if I can get everything done on 12/29, but that should not be a problem).

I'm getting into a pretty consistent routine with hitting the gym on my lunch break, which nets me 30min at a time. It's nice to get up and out of the office for a while. What I like about setting myself a goal of minutes is that it sort of frees up the expectations of what exercise "counts" and what doesn't. For example, 30min of yoga might not be HIIT cardio, but it's still 30min of exercise that counts towards my daily total, and having that sort of slightly external goal is making exercise less of a daunting thing. If I'm not feelin it one day, I can still go for a steady walk. It might not be sweaty but it's movement, and it's moving when I might otherwise have given up and not done anything just because I didn't feel up to a hardass workout.

Good for you gals for doing what you can, when you can. That's all we can ever do, right?

I'm super behind, and there's something about the lack of daylight and the cold that makes me want to hibernate. I've also had a hard time finding extra time to get steps in with all the holiday activities. I'm going to try to end the month strong, and reset for January.