Tag Archives: goals

Of wagons, and staying on them

A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from trip­ping down a gut­ter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had bet­ter bal­ance.
When these things come early in a process of re-​​​​whatever (I’m re-​​​​ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into bad […]

Focus and goals

So, I’ve kind of breezed through my first month of this trans­for­ma­tion with­out expend­ing an exces­sive amount of effort. There have been a cou­ple of road­blocks (a cat get­ting sick and hav­ing to be euthanased), a cou­ple of moti­va­tion humps, and a lit­tle bit of ten­ta­tive exper­i­men­ta­tion to make sure that I don’t pick up […]

Day 1 — Starts and first goals

This used to be me.

But not any more. I’m barely able to run 3km, let alone a 1.5−40−10 triathlon.
That’s all about to change, for all the rea­sons in the first post here and more.
So let’s look at my start­ing point:
Weight  —  94.0kg (207lb)
Height  —  170cm (5’7″)
BF%  —  30% (esti­mated)
Rest­ing heart rate  —  72bpm
Waist  —  92cm (36″)
Those are a long way from my best ever con­di­tion in the first […]