Its been one year since my last blog post and to be honest i cant really remember why i stopped posting or why my exercise dropped off.

Well I am back now and my first new post is a quick update as to where i am now.

I have spent the last week running every day as part of a challenge call the 100 days of Christmas where you run every day from Sept 15 – Christmas eve (seems very weird using the C word this long before Dec 25th).

I have spent the last month-ish learning how to swim ready for when i start training for my Quadrathlon next July.

I will be doing an update of my goals, team and gear this week as they have changed over the last year.  Most of my goals will all be in moving towards doing much longer endurance and adventure based events.

I have also been moving towards a more primal way of eating (Paleo diet), all of which i will be posting about in the future.

The word perfect is probably not a good choice for this blog title, as i dont belive is trying to be perfect, I dont think such a thing exists, which means you will always fail.  Trying to be amazing, or outstanding is better than trying to be perfect.  Anyway……

Last week I did a few runs, finishing the week with a nice 8 mile run with my brother in law.  I also manged to get on the bike a few times at the gym racking up some miles (which is a start).

However I didn’t do enough running and no where near enough biking.  So although I am moving in the right direction by doing weekly exercise I am not getting in enough of it.  This is mostly down to having quite a bit on at work, and this weeks going to be much worse I think.

One solution I am going to try after my 100 mile bike ride is to run to and from work, about a 16 mile round trip, that should be a very interesting month. I cant even bike to work this week as I am out of the office traveling alot this week. Arg!

I am also noticing that although I am exercising more than I was, my nutrition is off base, I feel quite week and tired a lot of the time.  I know this means I am not getting the right nutrients in my diet, but again I am not finding the time to address (despite the fact that we all have the same 24 hours).

Tasks for this week:

1. Addresses what I eat and drink from this week moving forward.
2. Schedule in exercise and stick to it
   

Well its been a little while since I last posted, so a quick update.

Due to work commitments I have not spent as much time as I hoped on my challenges, that probably the problem there, hope wont get me far.  I will have to get a proper plan together this weekend.

I have still been running a few times a week and did a 6 mile run in a personal best time (more on that in the next post).

I have signed up for a 100 mile bike ride which is in about 5 weeks and I still don’t have a bike.  Part of the problem is I cant afford to spend a lot of money on a bike, but on the flip side you don’t want to spend the little money you do have on junk!  I have a few options, but I will have to make a decision by Sunday.  Despite not having a bike I did get some training in today on the exercise bikes at the gym today.

The area I have been lacking the most is the swimming and this is the area I am suffering in the most.  I think the plan will be to get the running and 100 mile bike ride completed and start the swimming in 5 weeks.

I have been doing the push ups working towards by first mini goal of 100 push-ups, however I have started to get niggles in my right shoulder.  Last year I suffered from a problem with my rotary cuff, so I don’t want to push myself to the point of damage, but I don’t want to hold back.  I just have to push it bit by bit and see how i get on.