I had a moment this morning...

I signed up for the City to Surf for the 12km run. I have never run the city to surf and for some reason this year felt like the year to give it a crack.

Work has organised a weekly training session and hopefully I can motivate myself to fill in the gaps.

The run starts at a reasonable time of 9.30am, so fingers crossed that the weather is great at the end of August.

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Fitness freak

If the fitness work that I am doing is not enough, then Bridal Fitting Personal Training is another local personal training concern dedicated to brides! As well as the fitness work they offer assistance with eating plans.

I think it would be awesome to have group training sessions with my bridesmaids, however I think that it will just be a dream...

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Get fit

I guess that it had to happen, sooner or later. I stumbled across the following company, Runaway Brides. Personal training marketed at a group who traditionally want to lose weight - brides!

It would be fun to have a wedding as an excuse to get together with a bunch of girlfriends and run around getting shouted at.

Actually I already do that, it is called hockey preseason. But PT on the river banks could be fun as well. I am a sucker for punishment!

These are the new shoes that I bought on Saturday, hopefully they'll make me less likely to stack it on the astroturf this year. I usually buy a new pair of shoes each season and the last pair has lasted me at least two seasons plus indoor so definitely time for an upgrade!!

Image from Running Bare

Some weight loss tips

The West Australian online has published some tips on how to lose the last kilos at the end of your weight loss regime. It seems that there is very much a tradition (or is it expectation?) that the bride will, or will want to, lose weight in the lead up to her wedding, so that she will be as thin and therefore (in her mind) attractive as possible.

The tip that I need to concentrate on is the one that advocates more sleep!! Not just as a weight loss technique but for good health in general. I must be more disciplined...

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Fitness

I just went for a run. I procrastinated for too long, and instead of leaving at 8am as planned I did not set out until 9.20am, by which time it was already 30C!! I am feeling pretty trashed right now! It is all in a good cause though.

Preseason hockey training started last week, although I was not feeling well for the first session after actually looking forward to it. (I must be getting a bit loopy as I get older!)

The route that I usually run is to head down Coode Street towards the river, turn left just before I go swimming, run along the foreshore until I get to the carpark on The Esplanade and run back along the path between the Scented Garden/Boardwalk and the flashy apartments on Mill Point Road. At the traffic lights I retrace my steps back home. I have a feeling that door to door it is around 5.5km but I have not been out and measured.


It's lovely scenery at any rate, and for the most part I do not have to worry about cars. I have found that helps me to settle into the rhythm.

This is the route that I run before work, or on weekends when I am lazy!

The original map is the Sir James Mitchell Park - Function Sites map from the City of South Perth.