October.

What you see here above is indeed that I am registered for the Athens 1/2 Marathon. What's that? OH, no, no, no, I'm not running it. Not yet. ;-) I'm volunteering to help put it in action. You should volunteer too. (The website you volunteer through, HandsOn Northeast Georgia, is great... it logs all your service hours, which is great when a job/organization/grad school, etc application requests community service hours!)

I digress. :) But I'm really excited to be working the finish line, because that means I'll get to see and cheer on all my friends that are running it (Whaddup, Ferny?!). It's slightly sad, however, that I can't go down to Orlando, FL as I'd dreamed for this weekend to cheer on my personal celeb and favorite energizer bunny, Katie Colville, who is completing an IRONMAN that weekend (which just so happens to be one of MY life goals). She'll kick butt though, and I'll send her my love from my heart stationed at the Athens Half.

Went for a run this morning--and I was shocked to find that no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find a stopwatch on my phone. My "SMART" Phone!!! It's a friggin' Droid! Gah, that was annoying. But I did a mile in around 10 minutes, maybe a little under. Which is cool, since it was FUH-REEZING and the last time I clocked my mile it was 10:41.

So lots of things are going on this month. One of them is I'm doing my own personal "30 Hour Challenge" where I plan to walk 30 hours this month. I'm already 3 hours in, so I'm right on track. Another thing is that I plan on conquering the Climbing Wall this month. I'm signing up for a clinic later this week, and then I'm going to probably take it on once a week til I feel really good about it. I am yet lacking in upper body strength, and I'm terrified of heights; I've never done a climbing wall before. So, this will be interesting.

Also, I need to get on the band wagon with weight loss again. I've been really stagnant lately, and I'm resting at 205 currently. I plan to conquer the 190s this month and start out November in the early 180s. It's gotta happen because I absolutely must not give up the goal of 163. I don't want to say, "175 is good enough." I don't want to get to 2012 and perhaps be happy, fit--but a 180lb girl. Nope, not settling. Kicking ass, yes, settling, no.

Also--No candy, and no fried food. Which may be the death of me, as fall festival foods are to die for... Hey, literally. Ha.

So, that's what's on my radar. I pray that your own health and life endeavors are going smoothly, and know that each and every step towards fitness is worth it. Ten minutes of sit-ups does more good than 10 minutes on the couch. Water instead of sweet tea. 1 hr earlier in bed rather than another hour on Facebook. Do something today that your future self will thank you for.