River Bank Run

I heard somewhere that it takes twenty-one days to make or break a habit. Twenty-one days and you are golden. Now, it has to be twenty-one days in a row. If you miss one day, you start the count over. Those are the rules.
Here are the tips. Only tackle one habit at a time. If you try and tackle making 10 new habits and breaking 12 all in the same twenty-one day time span, you will be restarting that count until the day you die. It's tempting to do, but stop. Look at your long list of habits, pick one and start with it. Believe me, that one habit will be plenty to tackle all on its own.

My first habit: go for a run every day. You wouldn't believe how many times I've tried to tackle this one. A couple of summers ago I was doing really great, I got up and ran every morning before work. Then, being the graceful one I am, I sprained my ankle jumping off of a horse in the woods. So much for running. My ankle healed and I started again, only to give up when an extra hour of sleep before a long day of work took priority over a nice long jog. Anyway, feeling insecure about my inability to run long distances, or any distance for that matter, without wanting to die, along with feeling insecure about my weight, figure, etc. and of course being concerned for my health... I decided to give it another go. This time with a little extra motivation. I am training to run a 25 K in the 2010 Fifth Third River Bank Run. http://www.53riverbankrun.com/ I have never ran in any official race, and this one is close to home, so why not? They have a training schedule that starts, well, today. I printed the one for beginners and each day there is a different running workout. All I have to do is check the schedule, tie my shoes and go. I also managed to rope my boyfriend into running this race with me. So we went for our first run this morning after church. A 1 mile easy run. It was great. One day down, twenty more to go.