Day Two - Cross Training

I have officially made it through two days of my eight weeks of training.  Wednesday is a cross training day, so it really doesn't seem like anything at all...for my cross-training today, I just walked the dogs for 20 minutes and then did 25 minutes of weights, squats, sit-ups, etc.  I need to research some more exercises to add to my routine, as it has been some time since Ive done any strength training and seem to have forgotten all but a couple of the core exercises...I wish I could get more into our Bowflex, but alas, it just doesnt hold a lot of appeal for me at the moment.  I will just have to stick to free weights.  I wish I could find a copy of the
Quicktime DVD I did a lot at my old gym.  That was a killer strength workout.  Not that I have any room in my workout room to do it, but maybe I could fold up the treadmill...

I ordered my Garmin Forerunner 405 watch today.  $250 seems like waaayyyyy more than I could ever justify spending on a watch, but it is literally the only one that will track distance and time accurately via GPS that isnt $350 or more.  I am hoping that it will be here on Friday so I can start using it this weekend, but the UPS tracking has it being delivered on Tuesday as of right now :(  That means I will have to wait to use it until maybe Friday or Saturday of next week with all I have going on...

Tomorrow's run is another 1.5 miler, but I am supposed to go at "race pace".  Not sure what my race pace is yet, that is where the watch will come in very handy.  I am thinking about going to either McAllister or Gold Canyon park to run and check it out.  Ive been to McAllister plenty, but never to Gold Canyon.  I am going to have to find some other places and routes to run, especially as my distances get over 2.5 miles.  The hills in my neighborhood just kick my butt at that distance.  I think I should go for flatter trails until I am used to running the longer distances outside. 

Lastly, I am trying very hard to cut way back on smoking.  I dont want to be so brazen as to say that I am quitting, because I kind of feel like smoking is like any other addiction, and once a smoker, always a smoker.  However, the last 3 days I have only had 3 cigs/day and I am trying not to really inhale, but to just go through the motions...it sounds dumb, but I dont think I am ready to give it up entirely as it has been a part of my routine for a long, long time.  But obviously I am not dumb, and I know that I will never be able to reach my eventual goal of running a 10K if I am still smoking more than just the occasional smoke....man, it is really, really hard though!!