Boot camp

I've been whining for months about wanting to get back in shape, but I've been too lazy to do anything about it. Until last week.

My husband talked me into signing up for a physical fitness boot camp thing. It starts at 6 a.m. and lasts for an hour. Amazingly, there are several people in the class who have done it before and only about four of us are newbies.

The first day - we weighed in (ugh!) and got measured (double ugh!) then we were timed as we ran/walked a mile. I've never been a runner and haven't done a mile since I was in junior high. Can you guess how horrible my time was? Yeah - it was that bad. After the mile, we were timed for sit-ups and push-ups. Real push-ups, not the modified girly push-ups. I came home totally disgusted with myself, but it's also given me some idea of how hard I need to work to get back into shape.

I decided to set some beginner goals for myself:
1. Run a mile without walking/stopping and do it in under 10 minutes
2. Increase the number of push-ups and sit-ups to 50 or more

Those are my beginner goals. Once I reach those - I have additional goals in mind, but I'm going to take things one step at a time. And try hard to not complain about sore muscles along the way. I forgot to mention that part - the first four days were OMG I AM DYING because I was so sore. Yeah - it was that bad.

Luckily, I have a cheering section that consists of my husband and my kids. They have been going with me to run/walk on the days I don't have class. They also remind me to put down the Diet Pepsi and drink water instead. *sigh*