The thirty day challenge is a midyear project that involved three different classes; reading, fitness, and math. What I did was compared my fitness levels data with the national data provided by the presidents challenge for physical fitness. I was above 50% in every category other than cardio. So when the time came to choose an exercise that would benefit us, I picked running.
 After making our decision we had to create an S.M.A.R.T. goal which is a goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. Plus it has to fit the F.I.T.T principles which mean to have a frequency, intensity, time, and type. Mine was to run a mile twice a week, record the time it took me, and keep a journal on my mood and experience throughout the thirty days. Part of my goal was to get my mile time to 10:00 minutes or under. As soon as everyone had their goals and understood what they were doing during the project we started the 30 day period. Every week our teacher would check the days we committed to our goal to make sure we were still working, while our math and reading teachers would be checking our data and journals. 
When the days has past and the challenge was over the project has not ended. Now we were required to take everything and integrate it into a model of some sort. My model was simple and yet unique. After many attempts to come up with an idea that was creative and not too time consuming, I drafted up a perfect idea! I found three boxes one black, one red, and one green (each color based off of the binder color code; green= wellness, red= reading, and black= math). I put two down and the last one on the top, I cut the face visible to the audience off and placed a scene inside that was relative to the class including all of my ‘stuff’.
 The biggest struggle was that I knew it was a lot easier to just give up when what I was doing was not the easiest thing, and that was my struggle. To run a mile and not lose hope because I didn’t meet my goal the first few times of trying. But I kept going because I also knew that it would get better, not right away but soon. And it did the last week I got faster than my limit I set for myself.
 I am proud that I committed to this project, I fell that it has helped me discover many things like how easy something can become if I truly try and maybe even a little bit of a new passion for running. My quality that I would relate to this project to is persistence because it took just that to keep running the same path, day after day.