Man Twitter is a dangerous place isn’t it?

Today I was chatting with Amanda of The Zen Leaf and Rebecca of Lost in Books about a fitness challenge that Amanda had been doing.  What is this challenge you ask?  Well for a change it’s not about reading, this challenge is about fitness.  Now, I’d actually already heard of this challenge through both Beth Beth Fish Reads and Dawn of She is Too Fond of Books as they are either participating or plan to.  So without further ado, this post stands as my official kick off/sign up post for the 100 Mile Fitness Challenge.

As I’ve mentioned before I have lupus and my rheumatologist has really been pushing me to be more active but because of my special circumstances I have to do so in a low impact way. What makes me so excited about this challenge (outside of the support from fellow book bloggers participating) is that yoga will be able to be counted towards the overall tally.   15 minutes of activity a day counts as a mile so if I get into the regimen my doctor has outlined then I should hopefully be able to get fit and strengthen my immune system.

The challenge runs from January 1st to March 31st and asks that participants “travel” 100 miles total over that time.  I’ll be tracking my progress here on the blog so you can see how I’m doing (or not, haha).  Oh and if you’re interested in joining up check out the link above. It looks like a great way to make a healthy choice.

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Update #1 – January 10, 2010

So, I’m off to a bad start.  Week one brought with it diagnosis of a hideous sinus infection, and unexpected death in the family, and  an inability to overcome my tremendous ability to procrastinate.  I did, however, make the effort to go to Best Buy and purchase a Wii and WiiFit Plus. Sadly, they were out of stock of the latter so I’ll have to go the online route which means it’ll be a few days until I actually get it. So all this to say that I did ZERO miles this week. But hope to make up for it by doubling up on miles in the weeks to come.  Today I’m going to pull out the sheets my physical therapist gave me that demonstrate my stretching exercises.  That should give me a good 15 minutes of exercise a day until I get the WiiFit.