Hi all,just thought i'd share with you how my training is going.I am training for the cardiff marathon,the date of which has noy yet been announced,training after xmas hadnt gone well because there wasnt much of it and then i was out for a run on the 25th of february and a plan entered my head which was to use the last five days of feb,the whole of march and april just to build up a base of fitness,to lengthen the runs in may and start marathon training proper in june,my marathon is supposed to be on the 28th of september.running i have to say is the most important part of my life at the moment,everything i eat,every hour of sleep which isn't much is geared towards my running,how many more of you feel like this?.
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i hope to run cardiff as well - just like you running has become my life "no more wine thanks running tomorrow!" However feel demotivated at the moment - late jSept seems a long way off
It's taken a blow just at the moment, partly due to feeling a bit rough, and partly due to the possibility that my (running) goal for the summer may get cancelled. As I'd been planning it for about a year, that's got me down a bit.
If it goes, I'll have to invent something else, but it won't be the same.
It'll be interesting to see if running is the same for me if that trip does get the chop.
I've never felt apologetic about putting running centre stage. Partly because I couldn't for so long, but really because nothing concentrates the mind and body like a run. To conjure both patience and perseverance very deliberately before anything else simply sets the day. And occasionally I'm reward with one of Those Wonderful Runs, and those days - nothing can spoil them.
Everybody gets tough times, and this isn't really a down, but I'm positively rattling with anti-biotics, and watch the clock to see when I can next hit the paracetamol at the moment. (Infected face following dog bite). So just sort of hanging on now.
Somehow running makes the weather seem more tolerable (ok, not difficult this spring, but you know what I mean), and I can splash my way through 'character-building' mud and bounce back home looking rosy-cheeked and v.pleased with myself. Love those days!
My hubby's not a runner though, so sometimes I do feel kinda guilty about the amount of time it takes up.... is that just a paranoid female thing or are there any blokes out there who feel like that if their partners don't run?
Having run through all the seasons in there full glory for a couple of years now you do really appreciate how beautiful and how wicked it can be. Something I didnt appreciate before I started running.