Bill’s Training Blog

Last week as attitude readjustment! This week was the flu!
Since my great Sunday, I caught a dose of some bug that was going round. Sneezing, head aches and the like. Looking for sympathy. Getting none!
I was meant to do the 100 Push Ups Week 3 this week but didn’t attempt Day [...]

Thanks to Joe Thorne over at Learning to Run I was “up and at ‘em” yesterday. I wanted to find some magic in my runs, rather than just complete the distance. So I grabbed the FBH and we headed for the coast. We’re about 17km inland in suburbia.
The run starts around 3km from Hillarys Boat [...]

Apart from my own desire to be more healthy, I read some really good blogs about what others are doing. These are “normal” people who have similar desires and struggles that I have. So to see them succeed and read their story it really (I mean REALLY) is inspiring.
Check ‘em out … REALLY!
Andrew
Bob
Joe (I love [...]

Yesterday was a good day for me.
For one simple reason: My usual 4km run/walk was completed at 9:01pm after a late start. I’d left work later than normal, had a light dinner and watched a couple of shows.
I had planned a rest day.
But then I thought (but not too much) “with everyone out and me [...]

I flew to Melbourne on Wednesday for my annual trip to the Anzac Day parade. The flight was late in, my friends were still there to pick me up and take me to “the deanery” for dinner - excellent! Good food, good wine and great conversation.
I also discovered there were no tickets for the Anzac [...]

I had a brain wave the other day and think I have worked out a way to prove, beyond all doubt, where I am in almost any given activity.
You’ll see on my About page that I list myself as average. I’m a generally good person, a reasonable personality that some can take and some can [...]

Well, I had my weigh in at Jenny Craig’s and, even with a birthday celebration a few days prior I was able to drop 1.8kgs. That means I’ve lost 2.6 kgs in two weeks. Very cool.
However, each morning I get on the scale and have a quick look and it’s not always pretty. A gram [...]

Ok, I gave in! I had been trying to lose weight, get fit, be happier and generally more fulfilled for years. Don’t misunderstand, I have a great job, great family, few but loyal friends - I just wasn’t as fit and healthy as I’d expected to be.
I was tired, overweight, unfit (can’t run a mile) [...]