So after that big bang opening of a post… I did what I usually do best. Which is slept late into the morning… till like 8:30 AM… for two days in a row. Which meant no early morning runs at all…

And then I followed it up with two awesome long days at work which meant little time left for exercise at the of the day. In short, my exercise routine sucked big time since I launched this blog….

Not very motivating at all….

So let’s start getting a bit  specific shall we?

From today onwards, I am going to try running 5 kms at least each day. I have done it comfortably in the past and should not be a problem for me  doing so now. What will be a problem is doing it consistently each day, day after day. And being pretty similar to the dogs in Pavlov’s experiment, I have my own set of incentives to motivate me to run…

My mileage each week will determine how many beers/drinks am I allowed to drink over the weekend, or how much of unhealthy and delicious food I am going to be allow myself with a drink in hand.

And how will I make that public? Well I am going to start it off by putting up a weekly running graph each Friday out here. Actually, I have quite a few graphs in mind… not that anyone else will be interested but still. Here are a few I have in mind:

1)      Plot my cholesterol levels each month

2)      Plot my weight

3)      Plot my running distance and durations (as mentioned)

I apologize for being a bit anal about it all but unless you measure something, it really cannot be controlled. And that’s the process consultant in me speaking…

So here are what I plan to do from today…

1)      No fixed time for completing my run. If I don’t run in the morning, I will run in the evening before dinner. Does not sound like too much pain and hopefully it will not be.

2)      I will measure out my 5 km route again today evening… I had charted a route in the past but I don’t really like running down that road too much.

3)      Whatever distance that I run, I will be recording it in a spreadsheet from today….

Hopefully, I will have better news to report the next time I post anything out here…

Right now… i gotta go and do that 5 km run before Radhika comes back home … its her birthday tomorrow people !