12WBT Kick off!

After the last couple of weeks, I was considering pulling out of the 12WBT...came up with a lot of excuses, but luckily I saw them for what they were : excuses, and decided to "JFDI"

I have completed my pre-season Tasks as they've come up, but haven't had the inclination to share them here. However I have decided that for the next 12 weeks I am going to document my experience with Michelle Bridges' 12WBT as well as including my results as far as weight loss and fitness etc.


Yesterday I completed my *Fitness Test*...I purposely "overlooked" this Task last round, and seeing the other members sharing their improvements on the Forum, I regret it. That, and the fact that my #running buddy is documenting and organising her 12WBT with *military precision*, has prompted me to fully join in and post my results...


Ab test - Level 3 (sit ups)

Wall Sit - 36 seconds (man, that hurt!)

Sit and Reach - +8cm

.... we also had to do a 1km run and time it. Hubby, Cassie and I drove a little up the mountains to find a "flatish" road, as all the ovals around here were soggy, and our suburb is quite hilly. We found a perfect place, a road that runs alongside a popular lake. Hubby dropped me off, then dropped Cassie off at the half-way mark to cheer me on, and positioned himself with the stopwatch at the 1km mark.

I couldn't believe how long 1km was! I've been doing C25K with Leonie, but we're only up to Week 3, so nowhere near running 1km non-stop.


Anyway, off I went, a little faster than my usual shuffle, as I didn't want to be running all afternoon just for the sake of this test ;-)

By the time I got to Cassie, I was thinking I might just walk the rest of the way, my lungs felt like they were exploding, my throat was sore and man, was I out of breath...I heard Cassie say "Keep going Mummy! You can do it! You've already been running for five minutes!"...my thoughts were "Geez! Five minutes! How much longer do I have to run???", So I just kept on going and then started to think of things other than running, like how beautiful these trees would look in a few weeks when Autumn hits, that sort of thing...

Next thing you know I see Hubby walking ahead of me and when he heard me, he had to speed up, as he had to be at the *finish* line before I got there :-D


Then I saw the marker, and I just kept running until I got there...I have never been so out of breath in my life. Hubby and Cassie were cheering me on and kept asking "Do you want to see your time??", so I had a look at the stopwatch : 6 mins 29secs!!! Cassie had used reverse psychology on me! She thought if she told me I'd been running for a very long time, I'd want to hurry up to get it over and done with, and she was sort of right!


I don't know how this time *rates*, and I'm not here to compare myself with others...the one thing that I am so proud of is that I have NEVER run 1km without stopping in my life...



The endorphins kicked in soon after and I think I'm still riding that high 24 hours later...