Well, in the last couple of weeks, Ive failed miserably with any training at all! Knowing that the first half marathon is creaping up really hasnt helped and until Tuesday, I hadn't gone running for a good couple of weeks.
Im happy to say, that with persuasion and pushing from friends and family, Tuesday and Thursday I've done training runs of 30 and 35 minutes and finally am starting to feel the motivation is coming back - the next step, two weekend runs of 30 and 40 minutes to see if Im really starting to get somewhere.
You will see on the right of the blog, some vital stats have been added, admitedly with TBC's on a lot of them for the time being. This is so that you guys that are sponsoring, watching, reading and following can see the levels of past running we have all done - we are all true amateurs, and although a lot of people may find doing one or two half marathons in a period of time easy - it's certainly not for any of us.
Over the next few weeks, Im going to share not only the training, but also a few past experiences from the runs I've taken part in, along with some of the more memoriable moments - for good and bad.
But to start - an example of the level of fitness currently being displayed by such fine atheletes. I wear a heart monitor to check everything is ok when I run. The idea - get your heart rate over the 80% mark to get a good work out. Over 95% and it bleeps to tell you to stop as you are pushing yourself too far. So........when preparing for a run a couple of weeks ago, I was shocked when it started bleeping telling me to stop........especially given I hadnt even started running yet - all I was doing was bending over to try and do my shoelaces up!!!! Hopefully - the training and subsequent weight loss will ensure I dont suffer this sort of embarrassment again!!!
Good luck with the training everyone.
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