Progress and lack of improvement

anji — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:56:51 +0000

Funny how one can be both, right?!

Progress front? I could do some half-push-ups today for the first time in over a year without any pain. It’s a freakin’ miracle it seems!

Lack of improvement? This week I was a slack-arse.

However, I can’t do that much longer as my schedule is about to [...]

The Maths

anji — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:19:49 +0000

Just quickly before I head to bed, I was trying to figure out the maths behind the running portion that I am aiming for.

Desirably, running 2.4 kms in 14:26 is my goal. I need to also obtain a level four on the beep test. That equals to running 10 km/hr. The speed at [...]

Day 2 down, 131 more to go!

anji — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:48:04 +0000

The first week is always the toughest when you are trying to get established in a fitness routine. You make up excuses. You don’t plan well enough. You over-plan. You realise bumps in the road, etc., etc., etc….

Today’s workout went relatively well. I decided to cancel the swim today as I have been [...]

Day 1 down, 132 days to go

anji — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:04:18 +0000

Today was my first workout. I took it kind of easy in that I only had one workout planned.

The run.

It went awesome actually. I did my warm-up, did my 1km walk timing (11 minutes) and then I did a 1km baseline run (essentially doubled-back from my baseline walk). I was quite pleased [...]

19 weeks… 133 days until New Years!

anji — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:06:24 +0000

I’m about to do something drastic, as it may. Tough times call for drastic measures and this is one of those times.

Here is what I want to do by New Years day…

Lose 40 pounds and become Run 10k non-stop. Do 200 squats. Do 20 push-ups. Do 200 sit-ups. Do 150 dips. Swim [...]

My Challenge for 30 Days

anji — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:09:09 +0000

After nearly two years of being quasi-homeless, I’ve finally secured an apartment and will be moving there in four days. I’m not rich by any stretch of the means. On the contrary, for the first time since 2003 I will be solely responsible for all of the bills. I’ll barely be breaking even, at [...]

Living life to the fullest

anji — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:21:58 +0000

Being away from home the past eight months, I often keep up-to-date on the news of ‘home’ through online newspapers from my community. Tonight I happened to check out the obituaries section and saw at least three people that I know of that I knew personally or who were well-known in the community. One [...]

Jar of Hearts

anji — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:26:34 +0000

When I purchased my vehicle late last year, I was given a free year of satellite radio and during my last ride home, listened to the Top 20 station. I’m not normally one to listen to ‘trendyish’ music because I’m an old-soul stuck in the 60s/70s. However, two songs recently have tugged at me. [...]

“Sex was in the air”… essentially, you asked to be raped.

anji — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:10:20 +0000

A Winnipeg judge set a dangerous precedent in the Canadian legal system (despite asking it not become one) when sentencing rapist Kenneth Rhodes to a conditional sentence (essentially ‘time served’, leaving him free within the community) when the Crown had asked for a three-year prison sentence.

“Sex was in the air,” stated Queen’s Bench [...]

You scream, I scream, We all scream for … Breastmilk Ice-cream?

anji — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:55:20 +0000

What will they think of next? A shop in London, England has decided that it would be really, really cool to be inventive (or perhaps — arguably — resourceful?) to make breast-milk ice-cream. The specialty ice-cream parlour named the delicacy Baby Gaga and if you are anything like me (and let’s assume you are), [...]