I am setting myself the following goals and will be reporting my success or failure herein at the appropriate time:
1) I will run the City to Surf footrace (August 12th) in under 75 minutes. This will qualify me for one of the leading groups in the race the next year. In fact, I will run it in 72 minutes or under. I ran in it last year for the first time and got about 77 minutes.
2) By that time (the week of August 12th), I will be able to complete a set of 10 reps of barbell bench press with 40 kilogram plates on each end of the bar, for a total weight of about 90 kilograms (including bar). I currently weigh 73 kilograms.
3) By the end of 2012, I want to be able to do 70 pushups, and 20 wide-grip palm-forward pullups.
Those are my objectives. They include cardio, functional and non-functional strength. I'm confident I can reach these targets.
A quick aside: here is an example of the sort of healthy meal my wife and I make for weekday dinners. This is a prawn, vegetable and buckwheat noodle soup that I made tonight. It took about 30 - 40 minutes and seeing as we get four meals out of it (2 dinners and 2 lunches to take to work tomorrow), probably comes to about $6 a serve. It was super tasty and healthy.
Very rough recipe: shell 600g prawns, keeping shells. Put shells plus a slice knob of ginger and sliced birdseye chilli into 1L of chicken stock. Simmer for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, chop 1 head broccoli and 200g button mushrooms. When broth is done, drain it, discarding solids and keeping liquid. Add vegies and 1 tablespoon of fish sauce to broth. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add prawns, simmer for 2 more minutes. Serve with cooked and refreshed buckwheat noodles. Easy! It's also crazy healthy; we used salt reduced stock, prawns are low calories, no oil used in anything, buckwheat noodles are low GI and high in fibre and protein, and ginger and chilli are so good for you its silly.
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