My fitness program would make most of you blanch....including me.

I have made it so hard for myself by nominating tough roads and grandstands.....and had I realised what I was doing, I would have nominated different streets and grandstands!!!!

Firstly, I have to wear a heart monitor around my chest, and this "talks" to a gizmo on my wrist....and records my heart rate, distances I have gone and time it has taken.

I have, during the first month, three programs, and they all alternate daily 6 days a week (Yes, I get to rest on Sunday's!!!).

1) walking at a fast pace for 30 minutes and getting my heart rate up to 140 and not allowing it to drop below 98.

2) walking for 15 minutes and then climbing the stairs at the racecourse grandstand for 15 minutes before doing another fast paced 15 minute walk.

3) walking up Brocklebank drive (very steep and long) and back along Wedge street to Jeffrey street Kyneton, and taking 45 minutes or less. Once again, getting the heart rate up to the levels I have already mentioned.

I started backwards today by doing number (3) first, and forgot to wear the bloody heart rate monitor. Hell, it was hard work. I was starting to weave a little as I entered the home stretch.

The second month is more of the above, but faster....

And the third month is.....you guessed it.....more of the above but faster.