5 March 2011: 1km time trial - and it's not just Thorpy who needed to make a comeback.

It's been a while, but I have been filling in the other blogs, especially the Motivate Me to Lose Weight blog.

For me exercise has gone hand in hand with my weight in the last 20 years or so. Gone are the days when I used to play competitive tennis or played netball for fun. When I am fit and healthy I exercise so am also slim, toned and under BMI etc. When I stop exercising for any length of time, through injury, time issues or pure laziness, then the weight creeps back on.

Having reached my biggest point to date around Christmas 2010 despite doing (what I thought was enough) exercise, sure I was losing a bit of size but the weight stayed stubbornly in the late 80's kilo bracket, I decided enough was enough.

Anyway, to go back a bit to when I decided to look at my strength, stamina and fitness levels it was embarrassing. Here was me, someone who could consider themselves to have been an athlete during her early years - to go from that to this ... It's not just Thorpy who needed to make a comback.

So around May of 2010 I rather foolishly decided to get onto a treadmill and see how fast I could run 1km. Well in those days I had the mad idea I could be fit enough to run City to Surf in August. Not a chance, I can walk quicker. After a lot of huffing and puffing and over 9 minutes later I decided I needed to get fit first and then look at running. Believe me it's far too hard on the knees and back to run when you are also overweight.

I haven't run in a while. I've done a lot of exercise in the meantime and if you hop over to the last post in the Motivate Me to lose weight blog will see the stats of size loss.

Time to re-do the time trial.

Today, after a full personal training session, a trapped nerve in my back I thought what the heck lets do it.

I did start slowly, pacing the first couple of hundred metres but at around 60 seconds per hundred metres knew I wasn't going to be breaking any records. So once warmed back up again and into running mode, I cranked up the speed from a slow jog to a not so slow jog..

Finishing the 1 kilometre in 7.25 minutes. That's a good couple of minutes faster and I wasn't "running fast"... recovery rate was brilliant and I may be tempted with my very first 5km fun run at the end of March 2011. I'll see how 2 k's goes before I make that decision though.

Are you ready to make a comeback too?