November? When did this happen?

Halloween and its trappings have come and gone from Salem, and November has arrived. That means it's time to get training.

I have been working on my core for the past few weeks, four or five times a each week. It's worked pretty well, though I need to figure out some better exercises for my obliques. Suggestions are welcome.

Now that the cars are out of town, though, I have to start my first stage of training. I have to get a comfortable base level of fitness back, and I have to create the habit of running 3-4 times a week and cross training 3-4 times a week. I will probably straighten out my Y membership so I can use the pool and the elliptical machines and what have you on cross training days. And so I can use the treadmill on the short run days when it's too cold, even though I generally hate treadmills. But I digress. I'm going to a show at the House of Blues tonight (Girl Talk, woo), so tomorrow is officially going to be "Day One".