Hi everyone, now we're coming to the end of the year I thought it would be nice to take a moment to reflect on the things we've achieved in 2009 and look forward to the things we might do in 2010. I'll start...
The good stuff:
Joining a running group and meeting some super lovely fellow runners.
Giving up my gym membership and discovering how good it is to run outside.
Doing my first HellRunner and LOVING IT!
Breaking the 10mile mark.
Feeling like a 'proper runner.'
Getting my boyfriend out on a run after 18months of trying.
The bad:
Having a fight with a bin bag and twisting my ankle in a big way just before the Delamere 10k.
Still smoking. grrrrr.
Still haven't quit my job.
2010:
Doing my first HM.
Hopefully HellRunner round 2.
Quit my job!!
Get boyfriend out on his second run. One step at a time!
Doing a Helly Hansen challenge and other such muddy fun.
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LP8, sounds like a good year! You must tell me what worked to get your boyfriend out on a run at last. I'd love mine to like running too, but he's adamant he's not interested...
The good stuff:
Finishing dissertation for masters degree
Amazing holiday in California driving a convertible Mustang
Taking up running again and feeling amazing for it
Rediscovering reading fiction instead of textbooks
Camp Bestival - PJ Harvey and Bon Iver, and the fireworks were amazing
The bad:
Horrible run the other day getting hopelessly lost and running past a sewage works twice - ick.
Spending far too much of the summer in the library writing dissertation and missing out on the fun stuff
2010:
Running first marathon in under 4 hours?!?
Coming up with a fantastic fancy dress costume for Camp Bestival (thinking Captain Haddock at the moment)
Worst bit- too much stress at work.
2010- hope to do my 2nd HM and have less stress at work
Best bits -
Taking up running again but in a more serious way!!
Running my 1st actual race (Seaside 10K).
Signing up for my 1st HM in January and sticking to my training.
Signing up for my 1st Marathon yesterday (April 2010)
My last LSR 8 miles of madness, best run of my life!!
Finding a cracking new job!!
Bad bits -
My calves killing me for a week after my 1st 10K.
Getting made redundant.
My windy run this morning!!
2010 aims -
Complete my HM in sub 2 hrs.
Complete my marathon in sub 4 hrs.
Get a sub 45 10K time.
Enjoy my running!!
This year:
What was hot:
PB's for 5k, 4 miles, 10k and 10 miles
My new camera
Being unemployed
What was not:
Being injured for months
Being 8 seconds short of going sub 20 minutes for 5k
Being injured for months
My inability to swim continuous lengths FC
Being injured for months
Not getting the money to buy tri gear
Being injured for months
My GF telling me 'it's over' after 6 years
Being injured for months
Being unemployed
2010:
Run my first marathon in sub 3:30
Try and stay injury free
Find a nice girl that won't get bored with me
Do my first tri
Find a job
The good stuff:
10k PB
Getting married (after biking to the loch to meet the minister and my friend, just the 2 of us!)
The post wedding party
Getting back up!
The no so good stuff:
Working too hard and going under
Losing my mojo for a few months
Pulling out of HM due to illness
2010:
2 marathons in 5 weeks (Lochaber and Edinburgh) & hopefully a sub 4
1:45 half marathon
Stay happy!
Good
First HM
two new 10k PB's
Bad
Health has taken a dive of late
Good
Taking up running seriously and racing again.
Surprising myself over 800m
Representing England o35's at tennis
Cambs County Mile holder
Bad
Bad knees all year including 3 weeks missed training.
Still relatively weak at any distance over 3k.
First time in over 10 years I didn't travel abroad.
2010
Win British Masters indoor 3k
Medal at over 35's Euro Champs in 1500m
PR over at least 5 distances
Full year of injury free training against a serious plan
A new mara PB
Found some great new places to run
Joined a new gym and enjoy going
The bad:
4 months not running due to PF
Could have got a better mara PB - not what I'm capable of
2010:
A year off racing and just going back to running for fun.
A healthy year after stomach problems the previous year.
Really getting into running, and managing three half marathons.
Also joining a gym, and pushing myself.
The bad:
Not managing to shift any of the weight that I wanted to.
Five weeks out with a hamstring.
2010:
Get a few pounds off, and crack the 2 hour half.
The good:
On my 4th attempt, getting a place in VLM
Finally getting help from my doctor/NHS to help sort out my dodgy leg
Getting more into running and starting to feel like a runner
The bad:
Making excuses not to run early on in the year
Pulling out of Silverstone HM due to injury
BLISTERS! The misery of my life at the mo.
2010:
Complete and enjoy my first marathon (VLM!)
Take part in more races and spread them out better throughout the year.
The good (not necessarily in order of preference!)
- 20 fell races, one road race
- 48 miles from home to in-laws' house across the Pennines
- 97 mile cycle sportive and 30 mile mtb race
- Cycling 6 hilly miles each way to work pretty much every day
- Wife had our baby
The bad
- No time to run since nipper (5 runs in 4 months!)
- Cracking foot on a rock in Edale Skyline and having to hobble last 3 miles in delirious agony
- Um, not much more. I'm lucky to have had an ace year.
2010
- Lots of short races (no time to train for longs ones any more!)
Good: 5K PB, 10K PB, 10 mile PB, HM PB. Buying a bike.
Bad: Realising I had pSVT which wrecked a couple of big races. Also, peaking in March and then having niggles and injuries for too many months.
Hopes for 2010: First marathon. Ablation to stop the pSVT.
good stuff
decided to break away from my counselling work and do something less demanding
rediscovered my love for theatre and music
did my first race in reasonable time.
In spite of COPD lung capacity improved a bit
a stone lighter
Bad stuff
not as much spare cash
running hit and miss
swine flu
still smoking
hopes for 2010
no smoking
my little collectibles business taking off
doing Amsterdam mara
God, I just read that back and I sound like a bloody nightmare GF. Promise I'm not. honest!
The good
Shaking off ITB injury and running quicker than ever. PBs at 5,000m, 5k, 10k
Winning my first ever race
Winning my second ever race
Discovering off-road racing and coming 2nd in the Beachy Head marathon
New job
The bad
Bloody ceiling caving in! Really should get it fixed...
Bloody recession affecting so many people I know
But on the whole, can't complain
2010
Return to home turf and Champs start in first London Marathon for 3 years.
Best Man for a mate's wedding in Sorrento... and all I'm thinking about is running routes on the Amalfi coast! ...ok, that and the speech.
Finally got myself into a proper training routine, and making some serious progress at every distance.
Getting into the top 15 in the under-20 category in the GSR
Gaining a ton more self-confidence through running and feeling great because of it.
Progressive Nation (one of the greatest nights of my life )
The Bad:
Lateral knee ligament injury in February, kept me out for almost 2 months.
"Friends" who said my running would never account to anything.
Breaking up from a supposedly fine relationship.
Having to work so much harder at University this year.
2010:
Silverstone Half - being a fanatical F1 fan, this is a dream come true for me.
Kilomaton in October - I'm using it as a stepping stone for the marathon.
Starting to build towards my first marathon.
Becoming faster and fitter than ever.
good
3 HMs in a year
got into uni to do a masters
bought my first house!!!
started work at a new place and loving everyone there
bad
no new PBs
going part time at work (due to uni) = less money
plans for 2010
run my first mara
get my masters dissertation well underway
hopefully run the whole plymouth half course (blinking hilly and it beat me this year )
my baby sis will (hopefully!) graduate
Good:
First half marathon - and of course got a PB
just found out I've got a club place for VLM
Discovering I can do long runs when it's hot in the summer
Bad:
Not being about to beat my 1/2 M time in two subsequent attempts
PLans:
Get HM time as close to 2 hours (or even sub 2!)
Run first marathon
Climb mount kenya in Feb
great idea for a thread!
The Good Stuff:
The Bad Stuff:
Still to come in 2009:
Looking forward to in 2010:
Whats good now
Best of all time running related
Bad dont want to think about them now
Still to come
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- Bought running shoes
- Did my first race
- Did the FLM (6:00:00)
- Became a runner
- Joined a running club
Bad Stuff
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- Blisters
- Blisters
- Blisters
- Put on weight, even with all that running!
To Come
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- Lose weight
- Do a slog race
- Do VLM and improve my time by at least 1 hour with better training
- Stop smoking......
- Start cycling to work (step 2 of tri - swim to come later!)
The Good
The Bad
2010
EDIT to my earlier post!!
Just got a sub 45min 10K so aiming for sub 44mins now!!
(sorry for posting this all over the place but i'm genuinely shocked and mega chuffed!!)
- Rediscovering running, having picked it up in February after a break of way too long...
- Running sub-45 (by 1 second!) in the Oxford Town & Gown in May
- Running sub-40 this month at the Andy Reading 10k
- Doing my first half marathon
The bad:
- Being a misunderstood runner
- Finally getting struck down by the office bug this week
Coming up in 2010:
- My first 26.2 miler - I'm running the Paris Marathon to raise £1000 for The Stroke Association
- A sub-1:30 half marathon (fingers crossed at Bath in March)
- Joining the local running club
- Dare I say it, but aiming to go sub-36 on the 10k...
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- 3 As in my A-Level exams (biology, chemistry, maths)
- Securing my place to study Medicine at SGUL next year
- Taking up running
- My first >10mile run
- Sub 48min 10k
- Sub 7min/miles for the first time
- Just about to embark on some major travelling - 7 weeks in Sri Lanka, 6 months in Indonesia surfing
The bad:
- Injured my knee by doing too much too soon
- Major unhappiness caused by all revision, no fun
- Working so much I missed out on several months of running
For 2010:
- Start Medical School
- Finally be able to commit to running without surfing getting in the way (not much surf in London!)
- Sign up for a HM or a Mara
- Start Tri...possibly
Goals
- Sub 43min 10k
- Sub 20min 5k
- Respectable HM/Mara time