Minus 276 and Counting

Quote of the Day
"
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise."
  ~P.Z. Pearce

Well, it has been actually two weeks since I made the radical decision to run in the New York Marathon.

Reason for delaying in the post...ok you will think this is silly but here goes...

1) I wasn't ready to start training
2) The devastating floods in QLD were utterly destructive that I was too embarrassed to distract people from giving up donations to another cause
3) I was trying to sort out my fund raising activities.

Ok, perhaps they are poor excuses to use but all true...

So the task is in 270 odd days I, Hany Yacoub must be
1) have raised $15,000 for Kids Helpline (perhaps a little earlier)
2) qualify to run a 42.2 kms marathon in New York City under the qualifying time of Less than 3 hours (180 mins)
3) sustain all the pain, and accept all the help offered to these two tasks above.


So training started this morning with a leisurely 8 kms run around the Bay in Rozelle...

Well here are some boring measurements
I will update these daily
Weight 67.4 kg
Body Fat 22.9 %
Fluid/ Water is 53.9%
Muscle is 38.4

Ideally I would like to get to less than 65 Kgs
Body fat to about 8%
water Content above 60
Muscle tone above 45

Well here is to training hard


In regards to the actual target that is beyond me at the moment is...$15000 for the Kids Helpline....

So why you ask? I'll tell you this now... I have know too many talented kids/teenagers/young adults who have needed help and couldn't find it.
They went to the bottle and the pills and ruined their youth and I hope that I never see that again. I will provide my little tale along the way but need your commitment to follow me for 277 posts...DEAL?