Fitness accountability

It's official - I'm just one solid, giant walking ball of ache. Being me, I put off training consistently, even after making the decision to try out for Hungary next year, and suddenly the testing months are upon us and I  have to be scrambling to try to  make  some semblance of form if I am to be in the running at all. Truth is it's highly doubtful I can pull it off. It's incredible, but it's been 6 years since I was last in the kind of shape I am aiming for, and to try to get back there in less than 3 months is nothing short of ridiculous. Why I do these things to myself, nobody knows. Things have to be at the absolute extreme before I react.
Jason's written me a program aimed at ramping up the training and getting me back in shape as quickly as possible. Monday I had to do the baseline testing, (ran for the the first time since 2009!!!!) and talk about being handed a giant cup of humility!!! According to the numbers I got from Helen from December 2010 testing, things should look like this:

	1200 m run		500 m row	chin ups	Bench Press (seconds)	Bench Row (seconds)
Mean (average)	5:59		01:52.0	8.4	37.6	35.2
Median (middle data)	5:47.5		01:53.8	7	36.5	34
Top Result	4:44		1:39.7	26	68	65

Nothing I did came close. My 1200m run is over 7 minutes, I did 20 reps at the bench press and 17 for the row, and I couldn't do one single pull-up! Me, the person who taught almost all my friends to do pull-ups, and could always depend on my strength and fitness to make up for any deficits in the paddling. I'm plain and simply too heavy. I need to drop a good 25-30lbs. Chug, chug, chug. So I'm in the gym twice a day on non-paddling days and once on paddling days with the exception of Sundays when I just paddle. The hip and knees HATE me. Me TIRED. One GIANT bag of ache I tell you. However, come hell or high water I will be in the most amazing shape by year-end. So even if I don't make the cut for the fall camp, it won't matter much because I will be in killer shape!
Add to all my new training the fact that Albert has ramped up our on-water practices, and seems to be paying real attention to me in the boat now that I've told him I'm gunning for the team. I've been sticking to clean eating paleo-style, and other than losing my mind when I was in Toronto last weekend and giving in to the Kernels craving, I've been good. No slacking for this girl. In fact, it's 12:35 and I have to be up early for deadlifts...