Getting fit - the start!

I have lost a couple of kgs over the last week (yes, unknown at Christmas, but hey...), and am keen to get back on the exercise track and get really fit in 2008. Fortunately, I am able to team up with my mate Pat down the road who has similar aspirations, so we are able to chivvy each other along. Our medium term goal is a 20 km trail race at Lavelanet which falls on Easter Sunday 23 March. We both need positive goals to aim for and this is the first one. So for our first 'run' of the year, we did an 8km run from Espies, across country down into Massat, then along a couple of footpaths and back up to Espies. Not having run for a month or so, it felt harder than it should have been, but it is a start. Our next aim is a 16km mountain bike from St Girons, up the valley (relatively flat but still with 200m of climb) and back, before hopping off the bikes and running a 7km loop of the same route. Hmm, fun! Over a cup of tea, I have also somehow been persuaded to enter a run/bike/canoe event down on the south coast at the end of September (a day before my birthday, actually!). I am now looking for goals between March and October to keep things moving along :-)