Change, just for the sake of change or will it make a difference?

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

I have been thinking about what my friend Joe (the marathon runner) mentioned a couple of weeks back in a comment on Facebook. I need to budget in a rest day. Not just alternating the running and quasi weight training. And this morning, as I lay in bed, not very motivated to get up, it hit me. I would make Fridays a true rest day, no exercise at all.

But then I said to myself: 'self, when are you going to get in your third day of sit ups, push ups?'

As I stood in the shower I finally came up with the answer:

'Since I generally get up early on Saturdays anyway, and then have some time sitting around the house until I can get the kids to go to the Y why not do those on Saturday mornings, and then my run at the Y?'

Doing the stretching, sit ups and push ups should not affect my ability to crank out the easy 30 minute runs that I have on tap on Saturdays. And I have the time to squeeze them in without any problem or affect to my schedule.

So that's the change I will be implementing this weekend, specifically tomorrow. On the Race days I will have to skip since the rest of my races are early in the day instead of the late start last week. But once month should not be a problem.