March is ending on a warm note, with April starting with some snow!  It really is Spring, it is just taking some time to get here!

April is a great 30 Day Challenge – Ride my bike every day!! 30 Days of Biking is pretty simple – get on the bike every day of the month.  I set this challenge out knowing that I won’t actually succeed – as with past years I’ll be traveling with a group of 8th Graders overseas and won’t have access to a bike!  We are leaving sometime on the 28th so I’ll miss at least the last 2 days unless something sweet happens.  Last time I was in Spain I took some pictures of random bikes around the cities and almost got a group of guys interested in checking out their bike share program!

My 30 Day Challenge for March was:

Unsubscribe, de-friend, unfollow – Time for some spring cleaning.  Clean out your inbox or news feed by getting rid of some unwanted/unneeded clutter!

This went super well.  I got ride of a lot of e-mail subscriptions – once you start it is easy to keep doing it!  Twitter was a little harder but every time I checked I looked for things I could get rid of and actually found quite a few random accounts I’d signed up for to enter a contest – like Amazon MP3 or Amazon Golden Box, Woot, Groupon.  I don’t really need their notifications in both my inbox and Twitter feed.  Facebook was the real challenge.  I think I did unfriend a few people, but I actually unliked several pages that weren’t really relevant and like Twitter were for contests and duplicates! RSS feeds wasn’t too hard, there are quite a few that I don’t read anymore or really ever!

I can’t really say that I’ve noticed a difference, but I’m sure less clutter is better!

For my other March goals:

• I would like to continue doing core work every other day 16/31 days.
• I would like to hit 50 miles running miles for the month.
• I would like to ride my bike at least 10 times this month (hopefully some outside).

I completely forgot about the core work and didn’t really do anything. I did do some of my PT type exercises whenever my leg hurt.  I should at least do those daily!

March was actually the worst month of running this year!! Ooops… 31 miles.  Ugh.  Without a training plan and the inconsistency of our schedule it has been hard. Now that it is actually getting warmer I’ll be able to run with the kids on the weekend.  Plus I’ve been trying to ride more since I’m doing a 100 miler in a few weeks!

I did actually record 10 rides on my bike!! 3 of them were commuting and the weekend long ride! It felt great to be outside even if for some of my commute rides the trail had icy patches!!

50% isn’t terrible… right?

I’m going to recommit to the same extra goals – 50 miles running and core work every other day.  Since the monthly challenge is riding every day I’ll easily hit 10 rides!