In sticking with the plan of not putting more on my plate I’m making running simple. I get up in the morning, take the dog for a warm-up walk, then I blast some good tunes and run 10 min in one direction and then 10 min back home.

I don’t time my intervals or check my heart rate. I don’t care how fast I’m going or how far.

I only care that I’m going.

I push myself by saying, “You can’t check your watch until we hit that stoplight” and then saying “Okay, to the next Timmy’s” and pretty soon I realized I ran straight without even thinking about it.

It got me wonderiing – If I pulled a Forrest Gump (just kept running) how far would I make it?

This Saturday I’m going to find out. I’m going to just keep running in one direction until I need to stop. Yes, there will be a bit of walking in between (I’m not trying to kill myself) but the point is just to keep going.

I will pack a towel, my Zune, water and 50 cents (to call my hubby to pick me up when I’m done).

I can’t wait to see how far I get!

* Cooking – I quit Nutrisystem because I noticed it was making me food-lazy. I was never like that before; Hubby and I always enjoyed preparing meals together. Especially living in Dundas, I’m so close to so many good shops that sell local, good quality items. One of our fave things to do is to hit up all the shops while taking Spanky 2.0 for a walk early Saturday morning.  Visiting the cheese shop, Mickey McGuire’s, is the best because they give free samples of everything they suggest you buy.

* Running – Remember I said I was quitting the gym but not quitting working out? It’s summer time so I am going to take advantage of the great weather. I have a plan to get into running, thanks to Zen Habits, and I will blog about it to…it’ll just be more motivation to keep it going.

* Staying at home – This ties into a lot of the things I want to do. Less going out means saying ‘no’ to social functions (see last item on my quitting list), it means less dinners out and more cooking (see first item on this list) and it means more time to read (see below). Oh, and I bet I’ll save a pile of money too.

* Reading books – REAL books. No more work related, social media crap (okay…it’s not crap, I’m just sick of it. I mean, The Long Tail is an amazing concept…but it should have been confined to a blog.) I’m interested in reading as an outlet again. Somewhere during university my love of reading got tainted. Perhaps it was being forced to pay for information from overpriced tree-scraps that we can now find easily with Google. I’m thinking of starting with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I’ve read the Hobbit but never the trilogy. I’m told its a bit of a difficult read but I’m up for the challenge.

So there, now I don’t feel bad for letting people down and quitting stuff I like to do. I did have a plan…was there ever any doubt?