Angel & all other friends here on mwo !
Bumped this thread up to record my thoughts and my new resolution.
Its now four months since I first came to MWO and from then on, haven't touched a drop of alcohol. ( smirnoff was my poision-of-choice - still am in sort of awe with their marketing strategies. Let's admit, poison selling sure is a fine art! ).
As I mentioned in my first post in this thread, have found that my aerobic fitness has really been upto the mark in this four months, definitely because of being alcohol-free . At present I've arrested the two major debilitating addictions of my life - smoking and alcohol - and have been hitting the gym regularly .
I've taken part in a five kilometer run in January '08 and for a first time runner, ended with a reasonable time of 28 minutes.
As I've completed four months of sobriety, I was contemplating on my goals for the next four months. Have sporadically been an amateur running enthusiast , so now I resolve to use some of the free time (alcohol was stealing away time-probably our most important resource) available to achieve long-cherished fitness goals.
One of these is taking part in a ten kilometer run. I've now printed a schedule from runners world (
Runner's World.Com : Running, Racing, Training and More.) which gives a detailed plan to reach fitness levels required to do a 10 km run, within sixteen weeks.
The schedule starts with about 9 miles of running in the first week- three sessions a week- and gradually working up to about 20 miles by week 15.
Putting this post up , as a tool for motivation , a log of my actual performance and also to request any one who would like to start a fitness routine to join as partners.
Its monsoon here in eastern India where I reside, so we shall be having heavy rains for the next two months and hence running out in the open will not be possible. All my running has to be on the treadmill for the next 1-2 months.
I count yesterday's run on the treadmill as my first run. I ran for 30 minutes at 10.1 kmph; distance 5.1 km. Reasonable start. Next run scheduled on Tuesday- tomorrow. Repeat of the first session.
Are you listening Angel? Do I hear the NordicTrack already creaking frenetically , trying to keep pace with Doubter....
LessofaDoubter