There are so many different cliche ways to start this BLOG. I thought of putting the old "one man, one goal, ..." kind of title in place but that sounded trite, as did the "One man's journey of weight loss" kind of thing, which is not too different.
Better to cut to the point, I reckon. I'm not happy with my health. Overweight, far from an acceptable level of fitness, I'm worried about being the next heart attack victim in my family. More on that later.
But I felt I needed a goal. Something tangible, something more than "get fit" or "eat well" or "lose weight" (even though "lose weight" is pretty tangible ;)).
I found that goal when the Sydney Morning Herald spam-mailed me to tell me about their Sun Run (http://www.sunrun.com.au). It's about 12 weeks away (I'll figure out the full details in due course) which is about the right size goal.
It's a seven kilometre run (hence the clever BLOG title) through the nice Northern Beaches outskirts of Sydney, so I figure it's a pretty nice run. Seven K's sounds like a lot to me today, but then on the other hand it sounds doable in a few weeks.
So, there's the goal. I'm calling today 'Day Zero', because I'll actively start a training plan tomorrow. Today will be a planning day, although I'm not sure how much time I'll have in the end because the whole family are off to Em's end-of-year Jazz Ballet Concert.
I can't wait to see my little one strutting her stuff on stage after weeks of practice, I just wish I didn't have to sit through a day of hundreds of anonymous kids doing the same ;).
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