New Year's Resolutions: Progress? hmmmm

Following on from my previous post relating to the goals and targets I had set myself for this year, I thought it would be a good thing to update sporadically on my progress.

The first goal (Get fit, stay fit) is an easy one to report back on, so what I have decided to do is create a run tracker at the bottom of my blog entries. This way, each time I post something (assuming there has been some time elapsed in between posts) I should have added to my running total.

This does require some support, however, and if anyone actually reads this, do feel free to comment on my progress (or lack of it!)

So, taking this into account, here is the first of many updates.

2011, January 7th, 41.9km to date over 8 separate runs in 3hours and 42 minutes, burning 4388kcal

So there it is, in the first 6 days of the new year, I have run just short of a marathon (what's 300 metres between friends?) and have been averaging around 5 minutes 25 per kilometre.

This is all made possible thanks to a very trendy and extremely useful gift given to me by my wife this Christmas, a Garmin FR60 running watch. (with heartrate monitor)


          
I previously (and still do) use my Nike plus ipod attachment, but as it was re-setting the time and date settings every time my ipod battery ran down (which is often, as you can imagine) I had no sequence of runs recorded. Sometimes it would show that I was running in December 2010 (when we were actually in Dec 2010) and other times (a day or so later) it would reflect as October 2009. Lovely.

In any event, this watch is now my primary mechanism for tracking and progress (as it also allows you to run against a pre-determined training partner, measuring your average pace over a run against your own target)

I will include my run details and totals from now on. The plan being to run at least 5 times a week, with a mix of mountain bike rides (the first one for the year is this Sunday) and rounds of golf thrown in there for good measure.

New Year's resolution 1). <--- In progress!