Fit For 40

Well here goes, checked with the gym and it's open till 9.30 and as it's 7.30 now i have a whole 2 hours at my disposal....no excuses i'm just heading up there now. Not tackling the hill before the gym though, don't think i'd manage both at the one sitting, so to speak lol If i'm back with enough puff to type some later then i'll let you know how it went, oh, and i WALKED to the bakers today, never took the car lol When your sat at a pc all day it can make you soooo lazy it's not true. very humid in edinburgh tonight, we may get some thunder but it should make working up a sweat no problem at all
Tc all

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml#top
the link above is only for the brave amongst you....it's the site where all my worst fears were realised, i'm officially overweight! if only i never smoked when i was younger, the stunted growth means that for my height, my weight is about a stone(14 pounds) heavier than it should be! had i made 7 foot 2 i'd have been spot on! So the wished for half marathon is now just an aside to me gettig my weight back down to where it should be and to where i am happiest with it. I'll be going to the gym tomorrow, with a bit of luck there won't be anyone else in and i won't have to bother about looking ridiculous as i try running on a treadmill for the first time. I just hope it's reinforced...if the link at the top of this blog doesn't publish properly i'll type in the page tomorrow. The website relating to the link is one of the BBC's and has loads of helpful info on diet and nutrition, well worth a look if your hoping (like me!) to shed a few pounds.
Take care all, and especially Linda, your in my thoughts tonight

Well, as i stayed up so late starting off this blog last night i never made it to the gym. Thats not me making excuses already, lol but it was near 4am this morning before i went to bed and got up feeling pretty tired. At my age these late nights just don't have the same effect as they used to
Beautiful and sunny here at lunchtime so todays walk was replaced by the need for the communal grass that my flat has a share in to be cut. As there is four flats that share the same patch of greenery it's a fair size and the fact the garden is quite sheltered at the bottom of a valley meant the sun had the same effect as a good work-out, by the time i was done i was sweating buckets! It's bank holida here today so the gym i'm going to be using is closed. It's attached to a community school, which will reopen for business as usual tomorrow so if i'm able to i'll update you after my first proper workout.(as long as i'm not in hospital recovering that is!)
As I mentioned, i live at the bottom of a valley, with an extremely steep hill back up to civilisation...this killer hill will form quite a bit of my leg building excersising, although i guess i might alter things every now and then just to keep it interesting. So day one was just a gentle starter, more will follow thats for sure, by next week i hope to have some idea of my chances(if any) of trying this half marathon. By then i should have had a wee go on the treadmill, maybe even a light jog or two...the half marathon i wish to take part in is being run on september 4th through the centre of glasgow. I'll keep you posted lol

Hi, i've just sat here and typed a whole lot of probably totallty uninteresting and boring things about myself, then navigated away from this page and lost the lot! So, the moral of the story is, save save save!!! lol
Okm, thats that of my chest, right this is my blog. Whats it about? well, i'm racing towards 40, seems only yesterday i thought 40 was for 'oldies' and here i am, only 2 months away from my birthday and thinking if anyone was brave enough to look at me without a drink in them then the only conclusion that could be got was that i look like and old git these days. As i'm not a millionaire(pretty skint really) i aim to get myself fit, lose my spare tyre from hanging over my waistband and maybe if i stick with it, i also hope to run a half marathon on Sept' 4th. And i'm doing it the poor mans way, lots of walking, jogging and trying to find cheap gyms for the days when i can't be bothered with all that walking and running! I hope it will be enlightening, interesting and maybe a wee bit fun along the way as well. Anyone like minded is free to liase and swap info, maybe links to sites or health info sites would be good as well.
I'm just a novice at all this so we'll need to just learn it as i go along....
So here goes, lol...