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The Naked Truth - May 2010 edition

Written by Simon

To measure is to know, therefore I will give insight in some key personal statistics on a monthly basis to keep you updated and to track of my progress.

As stated before I’m very competitive by nature. That’s why I take great pleasure in becoming better, faster, and stronger swimmer, biker and runner. That’s my goal, I want to improve and see what I’m capable of. This is what makes me tick, why I am training.

To measure progress you need information about your performance. What are the metrics, the key performance indicators of your goal? Keep track of those during your training and you can watch yourself and your achievements grow in the progress (free motivation!). Based on this information you can adjust and optimize your schedule and this is what I’m going to do in this section.

I’m already started a couple of months ago with some light training (running) to practice for a 12km run a so I’m not completely out of shape.

Let’s give it a go! Quote Lord Kelvin

Body statistics

Lenght: 1,95
Weight: 100,9 kg
BMI: 26,5
Fat %: unknown
Heartbeat*: 55 BPM
*measured after 2 minutes of complete rest during a 1 minute time span.

Training distance

Total km* swum - none
Total km* biked - 270km
Total km* ran - 29km
*in the month of april

What can we derive from the information stated above. Well… not much since I don’t have documented information about my past. My BMI point out that I’m overweight; the ‘normal’ range for a good BMI is between 18,5 and 25.

Also the fact that I haven swum yet (I’m not counting surfing) is obvious and something that is going to change pretty soon.

I’m currently still figuring out which metrics (distance, average speed, time spent) that are the most important and helpful to track and which contains the most information (and motivation!). If anybody got some suggestions in this area then some help and input would be really appreciated.

For this moment I’m pretty okay with my total training distance. It’s been a good starting point and already progressed a lot. I do hope that the upcoming month will be significantly higher.