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For Various Beady Eyes

To clarify yesterdays post with some well thought out facts!!

Lose Weight
- Carry on a WW, get off 1 stone by Christmas (4.5lb down now) ideally get 10% off by Christmas (16lb) for WW 10% award!
- Gentle exercise most days so as not to think I need more food! Such as walking for 30mins at lunch when not running.
- Use "£ for a Lb" tin to fund new clothes/kit and keep me going!

Basic Fitness
- Aim to use stairs at work (all 72) 4 times a day and be able to run up them all by Christmas
- Get back to swimming 20 lengths without a break - up to 10 front crawl.

Have Fun
- Join pool for both Gnome and I when I get back from my course
- Take Gnome swimming at least twice a week, 30 mins serious 30 mins playing per session
- Get Gnome running (well he has the shoes!)
- Do team swimathon with Gnome in March, if possible do 5k swimathon myself too (not sure if time will allow this!)

Shorter Runs
- Work running routes vary with a max of 3.2m
- Aim to run 1 short route fast (1.5-2m), 1 long (3.2m) and 1 various (hill work or various route) a week at work by Christmas
- Max 10k run at weekends

Improve Time on Short Runs
- Aim to beat S at work to various points like J does!
- Aim to be at the same pace as J for when he returns from service in April/May (that means improving by about 7mins over the 3m course!)
- Aim to run whole of 3m course (including the hill that J fails on!) by Christmas

There! Are you impressed! I am!!

Comments

fraggle said…
they look like very achievable goals there Pix - well done!
b-z said…
you should easily do those-yes
Leon said…
Oooooh

I love a bit of clarification, me

:-D

(That's a 'yes' in MeSpeak!)

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