Welcome to "Iron and Asphalt"

So! Here we are. A big thanks to you (yes you!) for taking a moment to read this note. You might be wondering what it is. No, I'm not trying to sell you anything. At least not until I can get that ponzi scheme of mine up and running. What you have come across is the beginning of a series of notes that will centre around my getting-in-shape efforts.

Like many people, I have been sucked into the eat-more-workout-less vortex that are those post high school years. Admittedly I was never exactly top of the cheerleading pyramid material, but all of that structure and access to organized sports helped to keep my hereditary "horse thighs" at bay. Now I'm all done university and have been working for six months which happens to include long stretches at my cubicle. Great for my lazy sensibility but hell on my ass. My sister has boldly taken the step of posting her daily weight in her status updates as a way of keeping accountable. The bravery of our family ended with her. I won't be doing that. For me, it's not as much about weight as it is about getting and feeling healthy again. I will be keeping up with this series of notes, in which I will be as honest about this process as I can be. It's about to get 'real' up in here, y'all...hah.

To keep with this 'honesty train' I'm on, let me say that this was not an easy decision to start this up. I try my best to not be overly self-indulgent with facebook. That's really not the point of this. I really hope that people who are in the same position that I'm in will find this to be an entertaining, thought/discussion provoking and hopefully, motivating series. If anyone would like to take part and write similar notes, please tag me in them as I would love to read them. If you are not so comfortable sharing on facebook, I would also be happy to read any private messages you may want to send me about your own experience or any questions or comments you may have. Whether we know eachother well or not doesn't matter, we're all friends here!


I like goals, so here's mine. Ultimately I'm working towards competing in a figure competition (bikini division) by 2014. If you want to see what it is I'm talking about, you can google some of my fitness favorites---Dianna Dahlgren, Justine Munro, Jaime Eason and Erin Stern just to name a few! From what I've heard it requires a full year of training to get conditioned so I imagine a two year window is reasonable to get everything up and running. Everything in this series will be written with that goal in mind. So thanks in advance to anyone who is planning on keeping an eye out for this series. Should be fun!
And now we're at the end. Well done if you've read to this point. You get a cookie. Just kidding, you get some broccoli. ;)