On the road...

Gotta quickly say I'm very impressed with myself today (haha). I'm at Cardiff Mela all day today and got up early and made all of my meals to take with me and some pre-mixed protein shakes too.

It's been a good week with food and exercise. Next 5km run coming up soon. I'll keep you posted.

One down, eleven to go!

Just completed my first of twelve monthly 5km runs. I'm aching all over right now. It was a little disappointing but I'm going to focus on the positives. I had to walk a couple of bits of it which slowed me down and I clocked in at 34 mins 02 secs. I'm a bit disappointed because I've notched an even 30 mins in training before. Oh well, I've started now and the only way is up. I'll do much better in the August race.

So here's how it stands:

July 5km - 34.02

I'll post my monthly race times rather than the training times so you can compare the progress on a monthly basis. The next run is just under four weeks away.

Time for a munch now! Healthy of course ; )

Triple whammy!!!

What a mad day. I did my bicep/back workout in the morning, press up challenge in the afternoon and just come back from an hour of footy. I feel shattered, but I still feel like I'm up for more. I think I did a better job on the press ups in the afternoon than before going to bed so I'll stick with that now.

Anyway, off to bed now, got 7km of intervals to do in the morning.

PS, we drew 2-2.

5km Latest

Ok bad news. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able take part in my first monthly 5km run tomorrow. Something's come up. But to show it's not a cop out, I've already booked myself in to take part next week. I'm nit giving up, I promise. Eating and dieting going brilliantly this week.

Man, I give up too easy!

I got up this morning with good intentions to start the workout plan I posted yesterday, but I guess I didn't taken into consideration the past few weeks of binge eating and little exercise.

I headed down to the swimming pool to bang out a quick 20 laps (600m), which I've done easily in the past. This is acting like a muscle warmer before I hit the weights. Anyway, I managed only 16 laps, and that was with rests after every few!!!

At this point I thought, 'don't worry, have a big weights session, it'll be fine'. Half way through the weights, I was like 'forget this'. I'm in so much pain now! I'm disappointed that I didn't complete either. I'm usually a pessimist, but I'll try and take the positives from this. I did actually get up and attempt it, so that's gotta be good right?

Hopefully it'll take me a few days to get back in the swing of exercise. Need to start treating the pain I'm in as a good thing. If I can start to think of it like that, it should push me harder.

The Plan

So what I plan to do over the next twelve months is to challenge myself physically. Now I'm going to say now that doesn't mean I'm going to run a marathon every week!!! I'm going to take it slow and see how I get on.

Three weeks ago, I started this press up challenge at www.hundredpushups.com/

It's basically a way of building your press ups over six weeks so that in the sixth week, you can bang out 1oo press ups non stop. I've never been able to do more than nine in a row, but I'm at a stage now where three weeks later, I'm doing about 80 push ups over five sets. I really should've started this blog then!

So as for my physical challenges over twelve months, that's the first one.

Here's a few other things I'm going to do:

• Join the work football team and get invovled with the league (Mid-June onwards)
• Run a 5km run every month (I know this might sound easy, but you're talking to a person who hasn't done a lot of running)
• Reveal a six pack by the end of the year
• Some sort of mountain climing challenge early next year.
• And of course there's the press up challenge so that makes five items.

This will be the most amount of physical activity I have ever done in a year. I guess on some month's it will be more than I've ever done in a month!

Anyone got any suggestions on the mountain climbing?

When I post again, I'll get started on the food issues I need to deal with. It's not pretty...

My Twelve Month Mission

Ok, it's my first time blogging, so here goes!

My name's Jas Rao and I'm a radio and TV presenter. Now I'm not here to plug any shows I'm doing or anything like that, although apologies if I do though, but I'm here to really just share my thoughts and feelings with you about 'My Twelve Month Mission'.

Now you might read this and think 'wow, this guy's goin aroung the world' or something like that, but trust me, it's nothing like that at all, it's much smaller and something personal to me that I'd like to share my thoughts and feelings on (if anyone wants to read!)

Those who know me know I'm always banging on about diets and exercising, yadda, yadda, yadda, and even though I do, I can't say I always practice what I preach.

The long and short of it is I want to lose some weight. Not much, just a little. But this is more than that. This is more of a mission over twelve months to challenge myself a bit more phsically and to be more in control of my eating habits.

I know there are people who are in the same boat as me, so I thought I'd just start a blog to share my experiences and ideas... and I'm open to ideas too!

More to follow...