I’m four weeks into my routine and loving it. P90X was a great journey, one that I didn’t finish horribly strong, but I did finish. My posts towards the end started to get neglected, but hey such is life!
After doing P90X, I foolishly took a bit of time off to “recover”. Ha! Well recovery turned into gluttony and all of my good work from P90X was undone. I guess the main benefit was that the underlying strength was there, but I sure undid the weight loss in a hurry.
I’m back to the kettlebells, and loving it! This time I decided to take it slow, build up a very solid base of performance and get into a routine that I can keep for ever. So, my plan is two pronged with kettlebell workouts and running.
My goal is to complete the Chicago Marathon in 2010. The registration isn’t yet open, so I’m not registered for the race yet; however, I have registered for the Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon in September 2010.
This is going to be a big challenge, but one that I feel I have a solid plan for and one that I will be able to take down and really enjoy the benefits of the training for life. I’ve picked up the ChiRunning books, and will be attending a clinic locally in a few weeks to make sure that I fully understand the method and form. Using the core building power of the kettlebell coupled with the lower impact method of ChiRunning, I think it’s a great combination.
Anyhow, here’s to loosing a bunch of weight and running a few hundred miles!
Oh yeah, today’s workout was the 1st day of week 4 in the AOS ETK workbook. I’m using the 16kg bell. I did 30 wall squats/halos/pumps for the warm-up followed by 5 sets of 50 swings and 1 minute jogging. This evening I’ll be hitting the pavement for a 5 minute warm-up walk followed by a 20 minute jog and however long it takes to finish the loop to get home walk/jogging after that 
