So far so good. I've made some big changes to help me with my double goal of running (oh god - running) the City To Surf this year, and to wear a size 12/14 wedding dress. (No: Haven't set a date yet... let me get my head around wearing a ring on my left hand first!)
Here's the list so far:
1) I have bought a treadmill AND vow to use it almost everyday. Each day when I'm not riding or going to the gym, I walk for at least 30 minutes. I can presently run for 3 lots of 2min. Then I want to curl up in a sweating, wheezing, shaking heap and die. However, i figure if I can keep that up, soon I'll be able to increase my times by 1 minute at a time.
And seeing as the City To Surf takes 3 - 4 HOURS, that would be really handy. Really.
2) My friends Max, Kylie, Connie and I have hit our local gym and go to a weekly 'Pump' class which usually has me walking down stairs like a slow-motion Frankenstein for days afterwards.
Scary thing is: The class is run by our high school's middle-aged librarian, and you would never know it, but SHE IS RIPPED! The librarian! (What: Are you, like, lifting the Encyclopedias while no one's looking, Kerrie???) She's this lovely, mellow, be-spectacled teacher-librarian by day, but by night she becomes a muscle-bound, ass-kicking sadist of a gym instructor. It's like Jekyl and Hyde! It's like Arnold Swarzeneggar in Kindergarten Cop.
3) I also bought the New York City Ballet's Workout video, just coz I'm too fat and embarrassed to join a real dance class, but I love how elegant and flexible things like ballet and yoga and pilates make you feel.
I had a go at the warm up and some of the stretching today. Note to self: Put the dogs outside BEFORE doing this again. I'm sure no ballerina at the NYC Ballet ever has to do floor stretches while simoultaneously defending her face from enthusiastic puppy licks.
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