What I Would Do if I Trained to do 100 Pushups (Week One)

I've never been the perfect model of fitness.
True, I'm happy to say that in periodic bursts I can be seen as an athlete. I ran a half marathon last year, for example, and I play soccer several times a week. On the flip side of the coin, my fitness usually lasts for only a few months, and then rapidly fades away once I complete whatever fitness goal I was working towards. I run the race, the soccer season ends, and then I slack off and go back to happily munching on cookies and fish crackers. Today, that changes. Unhealthy food, no more!
Okay, I lied. I'm sorry, okay? i just wanted to sound confident for a second before a reverted back to my sheepish, unhealthy-food eating reality. I'll never stop eating goldfish, cookies and every other unhealthy food I can get my paws on. What I will do is work to get my fitness up again. The goal? Be able to complete 100 pushups in a row. Why? Mostly because I wanted to write something tonight that wouldn't take too much time to write. A rather dubious time-saving strategy, I know. Let me rephrase that more epic-ly; I'm going to do 100 freaking pushups in a row!
I've always liked this fitness goal for two reasons. First of all, it allows you to clearly chart your progress towards the eventual goal of 100, and second of all I want to tell my grandkids "I did 100 pushups in a row once, you know." That'll impress them when their grandfather is so weak he can hardly drink a glass of water.
So, here's the plan; over the next, say, ten weeks, I'll do pushups every night, aiming for as high a number as I can manage. Then, every monday night that I post on this blog, I'll give you updates as to how I'm doing and show you my progress thus far. We'll continue until I've completed my 100 pushups, or the ten week period is over.
Now, let's see how I do for the first night...

Okay! I'm back. My base pushups score is officially 31, and my arms feel like someone's been beating on them with a hammer for the last few minutes. I suppose that 31 is respectable. Those were solid pushups, not those cheating quarter-pushups so many people at school try to pull off. Still, considering my record of 40 and my eventual goal of 100, I have a lot of work to do. Now, I'm afraid that I must cut this post off in the interests of sleep, and hope for a better score tomorrow.

Thanks for reading,

-Mark