Month: December 2019

So after being all motivated ready to get back on training with a plan to pound the streets in place the dreaded chesty cough, sinus and generally any germs going hit me.
I have to admit I really did wonder at one point if these were all signs I should back off from my goals. Was something somewhere telling me this wasn’t meant to be?

Then I told my self to stop being stupid, we make our own destiny. I’m not expecting to fly through the finish looking like a top athlete but what I am still aiming for is to finish no matter what time or state although I would like to be in one piece and reach the end before it gets dark 😂😂

I was still feeling wheezy at the start of this week so I decided as oppose to sitting and doing noting I needed to get out and stretch these abandoned legs.
Thanks to my day job as a Slimming World Consultant I have 10,000 leaflets all to be delivered in time for the new year, yay!! Arnt I lucky 😁.
Surley walking miles is better than nothing and will help build up my muscles again?
My plan was to leaflet this week and my first steady run will be New years Eve at Tattersall Lakes, a nice flat plod around the lake before dropping into the jacuzzi 😂😂.

I’ve covered endless driveways, letterboxes I’m sure some houses have hidden their letterboxes and build their drives on mount everest on purpose, but it’s all added up in strengthing my legs and boy do I feel it. Its also helped boost my confidence. I know getting back up to speed is going to be tough but I feel I can do it.

Sunday 22nd my first morning out, 12.69miles – look at those Calories burned! No wonder I lost 2.5lbs at the scales on the Tuesday.

Wednesday 26th (yes boxing day!) – 9.37 miles. All I could focus on was how many miles do I need to do to wear off a Christmas pudding from yesterday 😂😂. Prior to returning back to mums today for more food.

Saturday 28th – spent the morning with my amazing members and then pottered about for 6.9miles

Sunday 29th –  knew today was going to be a big leaflet push day so up and fuled with my bowl of porridge. Another 9 1/2 miles of leafleting done. Killamarsh is a hilly area with lots of steep driveways, I may have been walking today but deffinetly some hill work carried out.

Monday 30th – last day leafleting in 2020, headed out to Mosbrough early today as in group this evening. Managed to get a good few hours in

Just one last commitment now before we see in 2020, to go for a run today when we arrive at Tattersall, better get the kit packed 😁

Saw this the other day, 5 to be exact, I was scrolling through my emails when I discovered this one.

What only 4 months to go! Seriously that can’t possibly be right? Can it?

It was this point I realised with lack of running over the past 4 weeks due to circumstances beyond my control mixed with lack of daylight meant my training really had taken a nose dive.

So after sitting and seriously contemplating deferring my place with no belief in my self Ive told myself to buck up my ideas, get those plans in place and those trainers dusted off because this girl can and will cross that finish line even if I have to walk it.
I know I’ll need to put more effort in and ramp up the training no matter what the weather throws at me. I just hope the white stuff dosnt turn up.

So here I am porridge prior to run and a cuppa before going out for a gentle plod.
Today wasn’t about breaking record times or distances it was about just getting these legs going again and taking that scary step back out the door. Not sure why it seems so scary.

I set off down the road passing the trail entrance. I can imagine it would be pretty boggy so decided to follow the road round pass midland and enter Roethervalley via the main road trail entrance.
Knowing today would be a tough one I kept to a slow pace, I’m pretty sure I could have walked faster at times (that may be an exaggeration but what it felt like at times)
I followed the trail to the end then down onto the lake deciding to turn right as oppose to running round the whole lake today.
The path round the lake was icy and I could feel my feet slip several times I really must invest in trail trainers in new year along side a new pair of normal running ones.
Running back the way I had come to the main road. I stopped at the bottom of the hill and walked the hill back up home. Today was not a day for hill training, it really was just a day for being proud of getting out and doing what I could.

Feeling more positive now so this afternoons plan is to plan my 16 weeks of training and read my marathon training guide.

Here’s to the next 16 weeks!!