A plan...first day: rest!

Ok, we survived our 'Little Miss Sunshine' event yesterday. Ok, it wasn't that bad, but I must say it showed tendencies...the little ones and the older ones were really good, but the whole "uncomfortable stages of pubescence" in the middle, dancing to the likes of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry seem a little out of place to me. I clearly wasn't the only one uncomfortable through some of the dances.

Em was fantastic - I was so proud of her and her group doing 'So Many Animals'. Em was dressed as a monkey which was appropriate given that we've always called her our cheeky little monkey.

Well, on to the 7kms planning. I downloaded the training plan from the official website to see if it might work as a guide and it looks pretty good. It's a 12 week plan and I have pretty much 11 weeks to go, so I figure I'll skip week 5 or 6 - probably week 6 because 6 and 7 are not too different.

I've marked this all up on a paper calendar (what's this "paper" thing, old man? surely computers can do "paper" by now?) and I'll track things from there for the time being.

So, today is day 1 and the plan says: "rest". What the hell kind of an action plan is that? I'm not kidding, go checkout the website yourself...day 1 is "rest".

Oh well, that seems achievable. It will give me some time to get to the next most important topic: gadgets. More on that in the next post.

This week I have 2 major challenges (well, 3 if you consider getting past the "rest" stage). Tuesday night is a management team dinner which historically involves lots and lots of wine. Wednesday night is our monthly work social event which historically involves lots and lots of beer (and poker). Let's see how well my nutrition improvements go this week.

I jumped on the Wii Fit last night to get a gauge of my starting weight (and I also ended up playing for a couple of hours with Em, which included a little bit of a workout).

Starting weight: 128kg. Heavy. Very heavy. But, down a few kilos from recent past and I'm glad to be starting under 130kg so that I can pretend I was never over...