- Tomorrow there are only 15 weeks to the Great North Run ... and considering at my last attempt it took me almost and hour to do 5 kilometres (just over 3 miles) I really have to get on it. I don't want to be walking half way round again.
- I'm getting stodgy ... I have been doing a lot of lying on the sofa recently which is such a shame, not only had I got into a bit of a swing with the running but I was regularly doing my 'muscle strengthening exercises' and they have all gone by the board too. My stomach is again creeping over my waist-band and it's so depressing.
- Everything is getting soooooo serious ... I started running for fun, to make myself feel better about myself but sometimes it's hard to remember that. I need to get back to that sense of achievement at the end of each training session.
- Because consistency is the only option ... I'm not back at school when I used to open the books for the first time the night before the final exam. Cramming is not an option for endurance sports.
- Raising funds for AICR is so important for all of us ... I think you would go a very long way before you found anyone who hasn't been touched in some way by Cancer. It's up to all of us to play our part in finding a cure for this dreadful desease. I'm no scientist and I am never going to be the brains behind that cure so I have to help support the brains that will.
- If not now - when, if not this - what? ... it's a scary thought but as you get older you begin to run out of new things that you can start. The list of things you are never going to be gets longer than the list of things you can still be. The excitement you feel when you start something you have never done before becomes a distant memory, running is something you can take up at any age, on any level.
I would really love to know what motivates you to get out there
day after day.
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