Monday, February 25, 2008

The 100 Day Challenge

I've known about this challenge for a while. Dan's cousins, Amy and Brain created a blog for it a while back.
Here is how they presented it:

Q: What will you do in the next 100 days?

If a five year old can learn to read, write, count, and do math in just 100 days, what could you do in 100 days? What could you do if you focused your energy of heart, mind, and soul on it? Could you live a dream, change a habit, reach a goal, or change a life? What if we all did just one thing, one thing we have always wanted to do, but have never taken the time to accomplish? If we did that, what would the next 100 days hold for us all?

I thought it was a great idea, but I never did anything about it.
I love having goals, and I love accomplishing goals even more.
So, for the next 100 days, I'm going to train (follow a running schedule, eat right etc.) for the 10k race I will be running at the end of May (that's just short of 100 days). It's not a marathon or even a half marathon, but it is a race and the only race I can run right now is up the stairs with my kids- not much of a challenge. 
What I loved about training for the half marathon last year was that I had specific and defined terms for my goal. I had direction, purpose and I felt so good! After the race, I lost my motivation. I still ran, stayed active and tried to eat healthy but it just wasn't the same.
Maybe for my next 100 Day Challenge I will do something more profound and life altering, but this is my start.

Are you up for a challenge? 


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2 Comments:

At 2/25/2008 4:26 PM, Anonymous tjhirst said...

Yes, I am, and I will link to yours tomorrow when I give my new Tuesday challenge . . . but I'm not sure what my 100 day challenge will be.

 
At 3/01/2008 11:19 AM, Blogger The Price's said...

I love this idea. I'm a big goal oriented person and so with just under 300 days left in the year it means I could do this 3 times before the year is through. Thanks for the idea!

 

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