Progress so far...

So...every New Year, I spend at least a day thinking about how I'm going to improve myself - fitness, weightloss, clean house, better relationships with my family, blah, blah, blah.
This year, I decided to do something I had thought of last year, but not got around to. I am going to track my walks/runs on a virtual route from my house to see how far around Australia I can get! Brilliant!!
So perfectionist me has spent pretty much the whole of January changing how I track the kilometres. This is typical of anything I do, there's always a better way...NOT!
But at least, I have also been walking :) So I use an app to track the distance of the various routes on our property and have figured out a 3km, 5km, 7km, 8km and 10km track. So far in January, I have only walked the 3km and 5km tracks, but Hey..I'm still walking!!
Total from 2 January to 27 January 2013 is 43km! That has taken me through Narrabri from my property south of town, and onto the Killarney Gap road with 15.4km to go to my next checkpoint of Sawn Rocks. I am hoping to reach it by the end of the month. My fastest walk to date was yesterday's 3km walk @ 10.32 minutes/km.
I am amazed at my motivation this time around. It has made such a difference not just to be going for another walk, but instead to be heading for a specific place. Just today, I have already done a 5km walk, but I'm tempted to do a quick 3km this evening, just to get closer to Sawn Rocks.
So I have settled on tracking it on Google Maps and hopefully at some stage, I will figure out how to link my created map to this blog - Babysteps ;)
Next weekend as a reward for reaching Sawn Rocks, I hope to take a drive out to Sawn Rocks to take some photographs.
My goals for January were to lose 1kg and to keep walking. Only 4 days left, but I have already lost 1.5kg  and I am definitely still walking!
My goals for February are to lose 1kg and to start running again. By the end of February I want to be able to run for 6 minutes at a time. So far I have been able to run for 5 minutes at a time, so it is quite manageable.
Hope to be back soon!