Slow start, but I'm getting there...

Well, we are at week 4 already, and I must say I haven't accomplished much yet! Been a very rocky start! I'm getting my act together now though, and have had a pretty good weekend and end to last week. Well, good only compared to the past few months. Still hasn't been great. But at least it has been better!

On Saturday I made myself get out of bed and went for an 8km run. And it felt great! Started out pretty slow, but got right into it and was so proud of myself for going, and also pretty happy at how I did considering I haven't run in ages! Pretty poor form considering I am supposed to be doing the 10km advanced 12WBT program! I have a trail run on Saturday which I really want to do. Was a bit worried I wasn't going to be able, but feeling ok about it after this run.

When I got back from my run I spent some time in the garden and chopped back my unruly tomato plants. There are so many tomatoes on there - I just hope some turn red. It felt so good to have finished my run and be able to have time to just do some things that needed to be done.

We also took Parker to the beach at Bayview which is a dog park. He was hilarious. To begin with he was't sure of the sand. His ball got all sandy and he really wanted it, but kept spitting it out and spitting out sand. We then threw his ball into a little water. Took him a while to get into it, and a fair bit of coaxing, but he was soon properly swimming after his ball. So awesome. On Sunday we took him to the Spit and he got a swim there too. We also went on the wharf and dropped his ball off the edge to see what he would do (the edge is only a couple cm above the water). He bobbed for it a couple times from the wharf until it got too far away, then walked up and down looking at us, then the ball, then us. He went to jump in a couple times, but was a bit scared. Then he just kinda mistepped and fell in! Poor little guy - he went so far under. He popped up a distance away then started swimming away from us! I called him and he orientated himself, then instead of coming straight back he went and got his ball. Man he loves his ball! So funny.

Managed to get a bit of ski club work done. I really need to do more of it, but so hard to find time around everything else. I'm thinking once I get exercise and eating back on track and feeling better, it will hopefully just fall into place. That's the theory anyway! At the moment I'm so tired when I get home from work it's the last thing I feel like doing.

This morning I got up and did my hill intervals. It was hard, and I'm hurting a bit now. So glad I did them though. Felt bad leaving Parker behind. Ah well, he got a little run this afternoon and he will get to go with me tomorrow morning. Can't wait until he can run with me. Then I can just take him. Though be a bit hard to do hill sprints with him unless I can find a hill where he can be off the lead.

My eating has been much more focused the past few days too. Still not perfect, but better. Just need to keep at it! I can do it!

I've been reading this blog from someone who has lost 50kgs, and still has 30 to go (wow!). She does these great sticker charts and has "operations". I'm thinking I might need an Operation Europe chart, with stickers. She gets one a day for each of Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Water, if she's met her targets. I love geeky things like that, so I reckon it might be a good thing to get me back into it again.