Sometimes I am an airhead.

We are officially done with the 30-Minute Breast Cancer Awareness Fitness Challenge, and as I was doing my daily perusing of the blogosphere I came across a post on Elastic Waist discussing the challenge.

I found this tidbit particularly interesting:

Now, scientific studies suggest that 30 minutes of fitness five times a week (or 30 days during the challenge time frame) will reduce the risk of breast cancer by 20 percent (and if you want to know about other ways to improve your odds, you might want to check out this Women's Cancer Handbook), but we set the stretch goal to six days a week, or 35 days total.

Did anyone else miss the part where it was 30 minutes per day, six days per week? I certainly did. I did all 42 days!

I found it rather hilarious. I’m not too worried about it, cause some of that was some seriously easy activity (like relaxing yoga), and I probably would have done all 42 days even if I did realize that. Once I take a day off it turns into seven, usually, so I find it’s easier to exactly do a rest day, but instead do a day here and there where I do 30 super-easy minutes on the elliptical at a very slow pace. Also, a lot of that was during the half-marathon craziness and it helped to do a little something even on easy days in order to keep my muscles moving. Still… I should read things more closely!

Also, I got a flu shot. I’ve never gotten one before but I was at a health fair for work (my job is random) and this nice lady wanted to inject things into my body, so I let her. Who would argue with that? So if I get the flu this year I am going to be pissed. But at least my odds of getting breast cancer are lower!