I will blog about the other thing, I promise, but for now I've other things on my mind.

In January Darrren and Barry from Kingdom decided that they should get some use out of the last months of their gym memberships and created the Wednesday Weigh In. Each week on Wednesday they get weighed live on air to see if they're making progress. I decided that I wanted to get involved but as I'm not in Fife during the week I created the Wednesday Weigh In at the Weekend (WW@W).

So far it's been distinctly average and I'm hovering around 15st but that's without taking any major exercise. In fact it's without taking any exercise at all. The problem has been the lack of a goal other than losing a bit of weight. Good news is, I've found a goal and I've named it 40K in 4 weeks (in reality it's just under 40K but let's not tell anyone).

The 40(ish)K starts with the Black Rock 5 on the 22nd May, is followed by my first half marathon in Stranraer at the start of June and culminates in the Glenrothes 10K a fortnight later. At time of writing there are 88 days until the first race and today I started the first part of the training with a 60 min walk. Probably doesn't sound much but it was enough to get the blood pumping and the legs feeling like they did a bit of work.

I'll try to remember to post my progress on here but you'll be able to follow on twitter.

Originally posted on niceguyali.vox.com