New years resolution?

New Years brings many different resolutions, promises, wishes, goals, changes, etc, etc, etc.  I never get into New Years resolutions too much, because I’ve always been under the mind frame that you don’t need a holiday to make a resolution, or you don’t need a holiday to make a change.  The way I see it, New Years resolutions fall under the same category as diets.  I’m sure you know what I’m talking about – I’ve heard it many times – “oh yeah, I need to lose weight, I’m starting a diet on Monday” or “I’m going on a diet the first of the month.”  Why?  Once you have determined something that you want to change, why not get started right away?  Ok, I’m getting off track.  Anyway, I’m not making any New Years resolutions because I like to set goals and make changes whenever applicable, not just one day a year.  However, I do want to challenge myself to a challenge!  I’ve seen/read about different challenges that some of my friends are doing.  One of my friends Nancy (see blog) is doing a abb/strength training challenge.  Chris’s Cross Country team is doing a mileage challenge.  I’ve decided that I want to do a January Hours Challenge with myself (but obviously feel free to join!).  For the past couple years I’ve recorded probably 90-95% of all of my workouts.  I almost always record the workout duration, and sum up weekly and/or monthly totals to see how much time I spent working out.  One of my friends Sev really got me hooked to tracking hours as opposed to miles…which by the way, you should too, but that’s an entirely different discussion.  Anyway, I’m going to log as many hours as I can this month, and see what that amounts to!  I know ahead of time it’s not going to be anything ridiculously crazy, because I also have 5 hundred bajillion other things going on and that I’m responsible for (like my job)…but I’m going to take this challenge seriously and do the best that I can.  Yes, that will probably mean less chair time, less TV time, and less computer time, but it will be good for me!  Stay tuned.  I will update weekly with my total hours logged, how my body is feeling, and what kind of workouts I did.  Sometimes I need an incentive, no matter how small, to kick my butt into gear.  Maybe you do too.  I challenge you to challenge yourself.