Today's Workout/Goals for the New Year

Would you look at that!  I managed to work out 2 days in a row!  Today I did Shoulders and Arms with Joyful.  It felt really good to actually do a "real" workout, and actually finish it!  It helped that it was upper body, so it barely affected my hernia.  I got the occasional sensation, but nothing to worry about or anything.  I decided to be a wuss and use 10# weights for everything.  For some stuff, it was really easy, for some stuff it was fairly hard.  10# on some of the tricep stuff is tough! 

I'm really trying to make a point of actually doing what exercise I can do every day.  It's so easy for me to use my hernia as an excuse to not do anything, and that doesn't do me any good.  Sure there are days where I actually hurt bad enough that exercise would suck really bad...but most days, I could do something.  We own a LOT of Beachbody workouts, and I bet there's something we have that I can do pretty much every day...my original plan for the New Year was to do Insanity...that's still the plan once I'm back to normal after my surgery.  From what I've read, it looks like it'll be a week after my surgery and I should be back to myself...so I guess probably starting Insanity the beginning of February.

I'm going to do the Lincoln Marathon this year.  It's in May...so I'm going to be using Insanity to do most of my training for that.  I've made it my goal that by the time I'm 35 years old, I'm going to qualify for the Boston Marathon...which means doing a marathon on 3 hours 15 minutes.  Step one of accomplishing that goal is getting my marathon time solidly under 4 hours.  I should be able to do that just fine seeing as how my Omaha 1/2 Marathon a couple months ago was 1 hr 51 minutes.  So I really want to use Insanity to get my Lincoln Marathon done in like 3 hours 45 minutes.  If I start Insanity the beginning of February, I'll have the whole month of April to work on my running, since the marathon is the beginning of May.  I'll have the cario/leg strength part down already, I'll just need to get my knees back into running...thankfully since losing my P90X weight, running is WAAAAY easier on my knees.  They say for every pound you lose, it's 4 pounds of pressure off your joints.  Plus, I really want to get a good time in Lincoln so that I don't need to do a full marathon in Omaha...that course is too hilly for my liking.  Doing a half marathon there is plenty for me :)

So that's really my main goal for the year, athletically...have my hernia surgery on January 20th...start Insanity February 1st...start running when I'm done with Insanity...do the Lincoln Marathon in 3:45 or better.  For goals after that, I guess we'll see.  It'll depend somewhat on how the Lincoln Marathon pans out for me...it'd be kinda nice to start another round of Insanity after the marathon, but I guess we'll see :)