Runnin'

Every once in a while I get the urge to do something about my weight. I've tried excercising, eating sensibly, all the things people do, but nothing extreme. Each time, I trail off. Once I got injured and couldn't run for a while and once I healed I didn't start up again. Little things can really get a person off-track.

So, here I am, turning 30 in June, and I'd really like to get healthy. So, I've started eating better and I'm running in the mornings. I really enjoy running. I used to run every morning before high school, I think my sophomore year. It's great. I just got the nike+ system and I'm excited to use that to keep track of my running.

I've also found a couple of free websites that folks might find helpful. I know people have made resolutions and sometimes the smallest things can really help.

The first is fitday.com. You can track your activity and diet online there for free. It'll let you know how many calories you've consumed and how many you've burned in a day. You can also work toward a goal weight over a period of time and it'll track that too.

The second is mapmyrun.com. You enter a starting point on a google map and then mark the points in your run and it calculates the distance for you down to a tenth of a mile. I ran today and came back and mapped it and found out it was 1.8 miles. I had no idea I'd gone that far! I'll use the nike plus in the next couple days and probably post a brief review of that technology.