So it’s been a while (again) since I wrote anything. I was scrolling through my blog – which admittedly didn’t take long as I haven’t really written much and I came across the post I wrote abut gyms. It made me chuckle as while I still stand by my opinion that you have to be clinically insane or lying to say that you acutally enjoy the experience of going to the gym, I have none the less conituned to go resolutely at least twice a week for several years. I have lost rather a lot of weight too. Not that I’m actually thin mind but I am 5 stone lighter then I was at the beginning, without resorting to poor concieved diets, pills or fads.
I have over the last three years become proficient at most peices of exercise equipment that are in my local gym. I can row 2000m in under 9min – which given my handicap of a lack of hieght isn’t bad and have maxed the weights on the some of the leg presses. I’m not bragging, I’m tyring to put into context the next shameful admission, which is no matter how hard I’ve tried I have never, ever maganged to get anywhere on the tread mills – no pun intended. I’ve fobbed it off with ‘oh I have stmaina for swimming and water sports’ and while that is true – you put me in a pool and I’ll happily punt up and down for ever. Or at least until my attention span has wondered. I could never run for more then 30seconds. A few weeks ago started to take on my arch nemesis and decided that I wanted to be able to run for half an hour non-stop. This is a mountain that I never thought I would ever have any hope of climbing but after a bit of jiggling on speed and setting myself to goal of improving my speed by just 15 seconds a week I can now run non-stop for 3mins 30. Still at the bottom of my mountain granted and I’m sure that most people out there will sneer at me, but I’m getting there and I will make it.
So what impossible goal have you set yourself lately?
