Here's to goals

I have started this blog as a way to inspire and motivate me to meet some fitness goals. My six week fitness goal is to do the new Jillian Michael's DVD 6 week 6-pack. She promises ripped abs in just 6 weeks - we'll see. In 18 weeks I hope to have successfully completed a 1/2 marathon running clinic at the end of which I will hopefully run a 1/2 marathon. My 30 week goal is to successfully complete a try a tri, which is a small, beginner triathlon. My main challenge with the try a tri will be the swimming so I will be training for that over the next 30 weeks.

In my mind, I make time for fitness and see it as an important aspect of my current life. in practice, it always gets pushed aside when life gets too busy. I hope by writing this blog I will push myself to actually carve time out in my life to really take my fitness goals seriously. There are no weight loss goals. In the past I lost a lot of weight but I have not always been able to do so in a self-loving way. I think focusing on weight loss at this point in my life is counter productive to being a strong and healthy person. Instead I am focusing on these (hopefully) fun fitness goals. I want to really make time for exercising. Although in the past weight loss has been the most obvious outcome of exercising, there are so many benefits - most of which are much more important than losing weight such as prevention against tons of diseases and stress reduction. I am going to try to write about fitness without writing about weight-loss, There are too many women obsessing over weight to the point that they (we) drift into body hatred. This blog is not about hating the adult woman body - it is about loving it by treating it well and helping it to be strong and healthy.

This is not just a record of me meeting certain fitness goals but it is also a continuation of a journey I have been on for  few years now - a journey to be a fit person, dare I even say an athlete. I was never an athletic person so this is all new to me. I never would have imagined that I'd be running regularly; that running 10 km would be no big deal. I'm proud of the way that I took control of and changed that aspect of my life. I'm proud of myself and want to bring about even more changes. After reaching these goals my next fitness goal will be a marathon. Maybe I'll start a new blog for that but I'm not going to get ahead of myself

So, my attempt to meet these three goals will begin December 13 and end in mid-June.