I watched 'The Red Shoes' again over the weekend

It is beautiful.

So I am going to take Adult Ballet Classes. Beginners of course.

I have always loved to dance.

Did lots of odd jobs over the weekend

Lots of things I have been putting off. I bought new athletic shoes.

It feels great to do all these little chores that have been piling up.

I did boxing this morning. Lunches, squats, punching, crunches, running.

Gosh, I wish it was just boxing. Oh, and it is so hard to get out of bed at 6am on a Monday morning.

S

New goals

Had a bit of a revelation yesterday. We only get one life and I am wasting mine sitting at home watching tv.

Here are my new goals:

Go horse riding - am too heavy at the moment
Go skiing - used to do this but stopped when I started getting out of shape
Go skydiving - I am petrified of heights, but what am I waiting for

Here are all the places I would like to visit:

London 2012 to see my first Olympics
Greek Islands - when I lose weight I might want to go swimming
Gallipoli - Anzac Day
Cruising in the South Pacific
Canada - I know I am a geek but I really want to see where Anne of Green Gables was set and was filmed.

Hi

It is very quiet at work which is really good. I am getting lots of extra projects done that take up way too much time when I am getting interrupted with emails and phone calls.

You would think that I would use this time to do the filing that is piled high on my desk wouldn't you!

But I am determined to not feel guilty.

S

So

I know of two people who are reading my blog. That is quite exciting!!!!

Does anyone have any suggestions for things they would like me to write about? Feel free to ask.

Again, not much to tell

Had a filthy headache yesterday which finished about 5am, so didn't go to boxing this morning.

Made up for it by going for some stair walks at lunch, five times up some hard steps.

Note to Sarah: make sure you have had something to drink before you do this. I feel quite sick now due to exertion.

Oh well.

Have signed up for another six weeks of follow up boot camps on Friday mornings. So that is Boxing on Mondays, Yoga on Tuesdays, Boot Camp on Wednesdays, break on Thursdays and more Boot Camp on Fridays.

S

Not much to tell....

I signed up for boxing and boot camp, but they cancelled boot camp on Fridays due to not enough people attending so I am now going to Wednesday classes of Boot Camp and Monday for Boxing.

Apart from that, not much is happening.

My landlord is coming back on 2nd August so I will probably be moving then.

Not sure how I feel about that. I hate moving and will be so sad to say goodbye to Sam the Wonder Dog, but I think I need a change.

S

Boxing!

First class for boxing. Gosh it was hard. Push ups, lunges, sit ups, hover, punching, uppercuts.... it was good though.

And now I feel great!!!

BTW

Is it really geeky of me to get excited about receiving my first comment on a post???

Thanks nomind...

S

I think I've finally lost my mind

I have signed up for Boxing at 7am on Mondays and Boot Camp at 7am on Fridays.



So I get NO break from the end of boot camp yesterday to the beginning of boxing at 7am....

Oh well. You live and learn.

S

One thing I have noticed

Since starting all this exercise is how positive most people are. Everyone has mostly been very encouraging about my goal.

Sure, there have been one or two people who have said that I need to do more, go faster, get slimmer now, but on the whole I can't get over how encouraging everyone is.

It is so nice to feel that acceptance and the joy that everyone seems to have at the fact that I am achieving my goals.

S

Boot Camp performance assessment results

So I did the same test that I did six weeks ago this morning.


Sore quad still but I did the performance assessment test for boot camp this morning and beat every category.

Last time:

Sit and reach: +8cm
Hover: 15 seconds
Push ups: 1
Abdominal situps: 28

This time:

Sit and reach: +14cm
Hover: 1 minute
Push ups: 2
Abdominal situps: 43

The only thing I did the same in was the running test and I had to stop due to pain in my quad.