Starting over...

After a few days off - back for the first 5km - and man was that hard going!!!!
This running is a mental thing - today was hard hard hard.
New trainers were great on the plus side and I did complete again. Just feels like a mountain to climb back to where I was a week ago....
See how it goes tomorrow again :o)

Just passed the first 100 miles of training

Just passed the first 100 miles of training - wow the miles keep rolling by. But never get easier!!!! but that's that way I like it :o)

Let it snow, let it snow!

A very tough 7 miles in the snow and seemingly up hill forever!
You know when people start commenting that you are very committed - they probably mean commitable! ;O)

Week 4 draws to an end

So rain and snow - verging on a cold but still 19.5 mile in the week and 88 in 4 weeks.
Tough today (again) just had to gut it out..... just the way I like it :o) bring on week 5.
Steps up again from now on every week is +25miles per week.

Morning snow run - must be mad mad mad mad mad

Morning snow run - must be mad mad mad mad mad
So running again tomorrow :o)

Sliding and a Gliding

4 miles today - in the first snow of the year.
Roller coaster day - needed to run - but then found it hard work.
But then clocked a new personal best for the mile!!! How does that work! :o)
No sense no feeling.... no sense of pace .....

One cold evening in December

Posted best times yet!!!!
8'49" for the mile, 28'59" for 5k and 59'16" for 10k....
Have to go slower from now on!

So ran 10.02 km on 15/12/2009 at 10:12 PM with a pace of 5'55"/km - the other strange thing is that it tracks start time not end time... so some people think 10:12 is late, but that was when I started so got home about 11:20.. :o)

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Haha !

Week 3 - another 20 miles on

So another week on.... 20 miles.
Temptation is to push - must take it steady. Improving times makes me want to push - but with it getting colder sure that will naturally slow me down to a better pace.

This is totally stupid. This is utterly moronic. This is a completewaste of time. I'm going to do it anyway....

This is totally stupid.
This is utterly moronic.
This is a complete waste of time.
I'm going to do it anyway ........

The quote of the year !!!! says it all....

5 miles 49 minutes 5 seconds - completely nuts !!!

Fastest 5km

First time 5km in under 30 minutes....

From couch potato to deranged vegetable

Here's my story....
Having given up a gym membership as I never went and not exercised for years, I reached a point when I needed to do something..
So about 2 years ago I brought the best Nike+ trainers with the ipod connections and I was set. And I didn't run a step, there was always a reason not to do it - a young family, some work thing to do... and time passed.

Until one day, Sunday 9th August this year in fact, started running. My single ambition was to improve my well being. So I started a program called 'couch potato to 5k'. It was planned to take 9 weeks. Day one of was hard (and I'm not joking) but it comprised 'running' for 1 minute, then walking for 90 seconds which was then repeated 6 times. So I managed actually 6 minutes of 'running'. But I completed it, running for all the allotted time.

And so I had begun, three times a week. Each day was difficult but I just made sure I ran for the full time (always very slowly) but always running for the committed time. So fast forward 22nd November having completed 39 runs, taken 24.47 hours, 205 kilometers or 127.38 miles I got confirmed a place in the Amdocs NSPCC team (due to an injury to one of the original team).

I now have a 22 week training plan (just finished week 2) and by the time it comes to marathon day I will have covered 568 miles and spent a large number of early morning or late nights to be ready. My ambition is simply to finish and in doing so raise as much money as I possible can for NSPCC.

So here is how to sponsor
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ search for David Hughes and click through on the David?s Implosive Idea
You can follow how the training is going on my blog: http://implosiveideas.blogspot.com/ or www.Facebook.com : search for David Hughes or www.Twitter.com search for dchisland

Past the 250km mark

Almost forgot to mention... on Nike + I moved to the green band. Which marks since August I have just passed the 250km mark.
To put it in context my training plan means I will run 958km (including mararthon day) between now and 25th April.... Woooohoooooo bring it on

End of week 2: 20 mile

So today was 9 miles to complete week 2 of 22. So glad I was running today and not with that hangover of yesterday :o)
Was pretty good today - 9 miles doesn't feel to bad. Went for an hour and a half walk pushing Edgar for his morning fresh air and that seems to help the muscles recover.
Easier week next week, 17 miles but with the trip to Atlanta maybe need to juggle the days.