Posts Tagged ‘30 day challenge’

September Last week I was finally able to run 20 minutes straight at 6.0mph. It has taken about 4 and half years to achieve it. Not bad given I couldn’t even run one minute back then. I felt that extra three minutes later on in the day and took a nap. I haven’t had a [...]

Day 5: A friend told me that I inspired her to try the 100 pushups challenge. Well, she inspired me to try it again. I only made it to Week 2 last time with a max of 16. Today I started with Week 1, Day 1 for a total of 51 pushups. I spent the [...]

Day 3: I blogged at Renegade Scholar about Nathan Sawaya, a Lego artist. © copyright 2010 www.thinking-this.com Lego Talk At Renegade Scholar

My 30 day challenge of not hitting the snooze button went well. I think I only hit it once the first week of the challenge. I’ve made a lot of improvements in my running. I’ve even lost 7 pounds. Right now my schedule is 62 minutes on Saturday and Sunday and 42 minutes during the [...]

My pressing the snooze button totally messed up this challenge. I’ve been getting up late and not going to the gym for about two weeks. There were quite a few times when I didn’t even realize I had turned the alarm off. So I’ll have to start a new challenge. It begins tomorrow. It will [...]

I need to modify my 30 day challenge. I need to wake up at 7:00 am instead of 5:00 am on Saturdays and Sundays. I like to hang out on the weekends and whatnot. I’d like the liberty to keep late hours on Friday and Saturday nights without having to survive on 4 hours of [...]

That’s when I finally got out of bed after hitting the snooze a few times. It took me a while to get out of the house but I did make it to the gym. I said a lot of affirmations during running. That was especially helpful when I was getting tired. Today’s Numbers Treadmill Times [...]

I’m getting inspired by Personal Development for Smart People. I’ve decided to revisit the 30 day challenge. I’ve done two so far. The first was to stop complaining for thirty days in 2006. The second was waking up at 5:00am every day for 30 days. Both of these challenges were extremely successful. The 30 days [...]