Another year

As another year draws to an end, we all can't help ourselves to look back on the past year to set our aspirations and goals for the next year. No matter what we accomplished in the previous year, we all strive to 'do more' with our families, in our professional careers and in our personal goals. We will turn to new diets, cleaning out unwanted clutter in our houses, getting rid of old clothes, starting that more regimented exercise routine or training schedule. Out with the old and in with the new...as the saying goes.

While I was preparing myself for this same routine, I started to clean through unwanted running gear. Old running shirts, that don't exactly get that clean smell any longer - extra wires for fitness trackers, watches and other techno gear. One watch. Two Watches. Fitbits. Then I started to line them up and realized how many I had amassed.

Watches and exercise trackers from Nike, TomTom, Garmin, Fitbit and my most current watch I use, my Apple iWatch.

Finding my Work-Life-Run balance

If the frequency of updates to this blog is any indication, I think it's fair to say that Work-Life-Run balance has not existed for me -- and perhaps the same for others reading this blog. As we all try to keep up with the daily grind of work and home, getting kids to sports/activities, school events, getting through holidays, etc - it is often that we all sacrifice things to help ourselves for the benefit of others.

I was fortunate enough to attend a great leadership session with the team @CCLdotOrg in Colorado Springs a few weeks back and it helped put a great new perspective on this balance. For starters, “self” has to be a priority. In order to achieve this I’ve tried to eliminate any other potential pitfalls to finding the time to run, including:

• bought a new pair of running shoes-so now I can’t wait to run!
• I also bought a new pair for my son as well, so we can run together 
• ‘dusted off’ the treadmill and removed any hanging laundry ;)
• allocated time on my schedule weekly, to carve out time to run

Now, all I need to do is to pick a race to target, so I have a running goal and to keep up writing and posting, to keep myself moving forward.

Happy running!