This exercise thing is much harder than I thought. My calves and pecs are quite sore at the moment. I guess it’ll subside eventually. I hope it’ll subside soon!

Fitness test
Boot Camp started for us on Saturday morning with quite a rigorous fitness test. We started with some stretches which I liked very much. They weren’t too onerous. Then we jumped into a “Beep Test.” From memory I think I got to level 5.6 or somewhere around there. That totally killed me and really managed to aggravate my asthma for two days.

A few push-ups and squats followed and we ready for our 2km run. Now, you need to realise, I have never run 2kms in my life. In-fact, I have never even run 1km before. This was quite a struggle for me and I had to walk part of it. My aim is that I can run the entire track by the end of the course.

The first session
So we got up just after 5am. The only time I get up whilst it’s still dark is if I have an early plane flight. Getting on a plane is exciting so I’m usually motivated. This morning was completely opposite. We turned up whilst it was still dark, did some stretches and had a roll call.

Then we were forced to do 20 push-ups because two people didn’t turn up. Then we had to do another 10 because we didn’t line up quickly enough. This is going to be an interesting course and I feel there will be many people with black eyes if they continue to wag training sessions.

I think I did better at today’s session than I would’ve expected. It was a dirt running track right near the beach. We had to run for a bit, do a series of push-ups, run some more, run up an incline, struggle through some sit-ups and more push-ups, then run back to the start again. The course would’ve been between 1 and 2kms and we had to do it continuously until the hour was up.

I pretty much ran the entire first circuit and had to walk sections of the second and third. E did really well getting in 6 laps. Much to her disgust, The Sarge ran along with her for the last three!

One day of resting now before our next session on Wednesday which will be on the beach. Argghhh, running on sand – fun!

You see, I’m engaged!

After five and a bit years I finally asked E. to marry me. Actually it was more like, “So, you wanna get married?” Thankfully she said “yes.” Wedding plans will now take up most of my attention this year.

We had a wonderful holiday in Tasmania. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good relaxing and interesting holiday. More on the trip some other time. Just wanted to let the three readers of this blog know that I’m still alive and very well.