another Overnight Walk related post

So I'm still prepping/training/whatnot for the Overnight Walk in June in Chicago. I've met the fundraising goal the AFSP set and now I'm just fundraising since it's worthwhile.

I'm still training - granted it's been haphazard with the ski season winding down and travelling to CA for 9 days. But I got back out there this weekend and did an 8 mile walk and a 2 mile walk in the pretty Seattle weather we had (might as well enjoy it while I can) and tonight I'm heading back to the gym to walk s'more (I'd do it outside but it's knitting circle night so by the time I'm done with that it'll be dark).

I definitely would say I'm having motivational issues when it comes to anything > 3 miles in distance just cause it can get a bit tedious. Then again, Saturday my iPod Shuffle was out of juice so that probably didn't help matters when I started feeling blah around mile 2 of what was supposed to be 10 miles. But a lil' pick me up from Facebook and remembering everyone - friends, family and coworkers - who's donated their support or their words of encouragement made me stubborn enough to go on.

I'm babbling... so to summarize in bulleted list format:

• The donations and support from every corner of my life has been phenomenal.
• Outdoor training is good - when I bring music!!
• Getting back to the gym tonight finally.
• I think life will be calmer in the travel / crazy department and thus I can get back to an actual routine.
• Thank you donors and cheerleaders!!!

http://www.theovernight.org/fundraising/yvette

training (and inadvertantly skiing) update

So I'm still training for The Overnight... that crazy 20 mile walk I'm doing. http://www.theovernight.org/fundraising/yvette

It's going ok - I wouldn't say swimmingly but I'm not failing by anyone's definition even my own (and I'm my own harshest critic). I took a week off when I was working 13+ hr days and I haven't gone out on weekends due to skiing (yay!). I'm finding the gym to be a trying place to walk long distances unless there's good TV on. But it's Seattle and it's not nice out so I'm doing it there since boring is better than dark, wet and miserable. I can't wait for the days to dry out more regularly (and get longer) so I can do more walking outside. I definitely have some plans to walk to the local office (rather than driving to the further away office I actually work in) and to walk to the bus and do weekend farmers market walks (which I do all Spring-Fall anyways). I've definitely spent a lot of my weekend long-walk time skiing - but hey - the snow's been SUPERB! And that's cross training, right? ;) Except I think I want to mix up my weekday routine to have a bit more cross training there rather than always straight up walking.