Lance Armstrong that is, of course. As of today I've graduated to cyclist. After picking up my bike on Sunday I christened it with a lazy 2 hour ride today. That's right 2 hours, fair-dinkum I can't remember the last time I exercised for that long. Not surprisingly, I am totally wasted tonight and may very well need a wheelchair tomorrow but it has to be good for me.
I never really planned today's marathon it just sort of happened. The problem was I kept thinking about all the sausage rolls and mini quiches I ate in the press box at the Gold Coast on Saturday night. That, and the thousand beers I drank till three in the morning while watching the Socceroo's fail the final test in Qatar. Or maybe the full hangover breakfast I consumed on Sunday morning. Are you getting the message.
It's fair to say it wasn't my finest weekend performance of this new journey. Not to worry though, one of the promises I made myself was to keep living my life (within reason) so as to be able to maintain the changes long term.
You see, the thing about me is I'm a bit of an all or nothing kind of guy. I tend to go hard at things at a hundred miles an hour and then be hard on myself when I can't maintain it. This is far too important to fail so I'm working on a different approach this time. I've decided to allow myself the odd slip-up and not give myself a psychological beating when I do. Hopefully with this more sensible approach the changes I'm instituting will be more sustainable.
So another little milestone today. One month of the blog already gone (collective groans of disappointment).
So let me institute a new initiative to celebrate the passing of such a milestone. The end of month review!
So lets look at the January statistics:
1. Close to 10kgs and 10 cm lost in 31 days, not bad, not bad at all.
2. A semi-regular exercise routine instituted, Go Me!.
3. The corporate collapse of Coca-cola Amatil and Kentucky fried Chicken (really it's not my fault).
4. And the most impressive stat for last, 20 blog posts in 31 days.
All in all a pretty good start, I think. Perhaps the biggest challenge starts now. In professional sport they call it the second season blues, when rookies with impressive stats fail to maintain their good form the next season. so it's time to knuckle down and make sure I avoid the second month blues.
Oh yeah that's not me in the pic by the way (shame on you if you think it was). I just think fat people on bikes look funny so I'd add some visual imagery
Over and out
P
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