Jul
02
God, I am absolutely battered today. A combination of our loud cat Mini screaming at 4am (she wants attention as soon as it’s light) and a little stress before my first PT exam this morning had me not getting back to sleep. Did I use the time wisely? Well I answered some emails and did [...]
Jun
29
So another five miles this morning with a gym session in the middle of it all – I’m thinking of coming up with a mini five miles challenge but have not yet decided what form it’s going to take…. I might have more details in the next few days. What was different this morning was [...]
Jun
28
So summer is finally well upon us with temperatures reaching almost 30 degrees for the last couple of days. Its like an oven out there, just in time for me to be trying out an increase in my mileage. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m taking a PT course and one of the first things you [...]
Jun
27
So I know it’s not much of another milestone, given I passed my 1095 mile target just yesterday but today’s run took me past 1,100 miles so far. With the weather so warm, I’ve decided on gym days I’m going to split my run: run up to the gym, do some weights and run back…. [...]
Jun
25
So this morning was the penultimate run before reaching my 1095 miles minimum mileage mark… by adding another three down Green Lane in Norbury, I am now tantalisingly close to my target and am sitting on 1092 miles. I still can’t quite believe it, though this week’s gym sessions, along with cycling to and from [...]
Jun
24
A year or so before I took up running, my other health obsession to go with the gym was cycling. I’d bought a bike on the government’s Ride To Work scheme were due to tax breaks you only end up paying about half price for it and I would cycle daily to and from work [...]
Jun
21
So 90 days left but just 14 more miles to complete my first target: to complete more than 1095miles in the year. At this rate, it looks like I could complete the year with a total of around 1,400 miles, which would be a pretty good effort I reckon. I’ve been going through one of [...]
Jun
16
I heard on a radio show the other day that one of the reasons Bruce Forsyth can still pull off his dance moves is that he stretches every morning for half an hour. I’ve also been reading for my PT course about the elements of total fitness: motor skills, muscular strength, muscular endurance, aerobic capacity and [...]
Jun
13
We were down in Ashford in Kent for a World Cup party last night and stayed at Laura’s brother’s house so I went on a long run that brought up the 1050 mile mark in the Kent countryside. I spent a little time before we left yesterday working out a couple of routes in the [...]
Jun
12
While I’ll approach my distance aim in a couple of weeks time, I still need to complete the second part of the task: to run AT LEAST THREE miles a day, EVERY day for a YEAR. Passing the 100 days to go mark feels as though I’m now on a big count down though and [...]
