Florida Fitness

     I often find myself setting personal goals according to large events in my life.  For example, make amends with this friend by Christmas break or clean my room by the day of that gathering.  These goals are easy to mark and efficient... in theory.  The problem is that I have an atrocious rate of follow-through and most often those tasks get pushed to the back burner and eventually forgotten.  This is what I expected of my "Florida Body" goal.  I was going to get in shape before heading down to Florida for a month.  I was correct in my judgment that I would be just as out-of-shape and unhealthy before Florida as when I set the goal.  However, I had created a stipulation in case of such an occurrence: if I was not fit FOR Florida, I would become fit IN Florida.  Still, I thought that I would forget about the goal and soon become lazy. 
    So far that has not been the case.  I've been running every day with the dog, Buddy.  The picture attached is of me after a run and a quick shower.  The first day I ran was about 85 degrees and we jogged one and a half miles.  When I came back I made a spinach and fruit salad with almonds and raspberry vinaigrette dressing.  Today was so warm that I couldn't bear running so I waited until the girls were sleeping at about 8:30 and took Buddy out then.  I put a little flashlight collar on him and I wore an orange shirt so that people wouldn't run us over.  Then we headed out.  It was my goal to make it to the highway off their side street and after a while of jogging I did.  We were both pooped when we came back, imagine my surprise to find out that the run was over three miles!!  I was pretty impressed with my out-of-shape self.  I decided that if I can push myself to do that, then I can push myself to get fit this month.  So that's my goal... eat better, exercise more, be healthier.