Ready Steady Go

I have a confession to make despite my current fitness levels and weight I am not new to running, I have been running for the past 6 years with varying degrees of success, I have completed 6 marathons and many half marathons and 10k runs not to mention the many many miles ran when training for these events.

The aim of this blog is not only to keep myself in check but hopefully to get a few people running along with me, I went from not being able to run a mile to a marathon in a year. Imagine what you could do, be it the couch to 5k challenge the local Saturday Park runs, joining a running club or even running a 10k, half or full Marathon. Over the coming months I will share with you the story of my progress and I would love to hear yours, if you have any questions I will try to answer.

So as you may have already guessed from the home page photos at the moment I am a tad overweight when I weighed myself at the start of last week I was weighing in at just over 16st 8 and I have in recent weeks weighed as much as 16st 11, this is obviously far too much and over the last week I have radically changed my diet, whilst also picking up on the exercise.

My plan throughout May and the first two weeks of June is really to shed as much weight as I can, through healthy eating and regular exercise. The aim of the next 6 or so weeks is to focus more on my weight issues than that of overall distance, meaning lots of shorter runs and far less caloric intake. My hope is that by the second week of June I should hopeful be much closer to 15st than 16st, this will mean far less stress on my body over the longer distances, that’s not to say that I won’t be adding a few slightly longer runs here and there but for those I will ensure that I am fueled and ready.

In the last 12 days I have ensured that I have ran at least 5k a day with one rest day every 3-4 days. This is helping me get back to a decent level of cardio fitness so that when I am ready to start adding the miles once the weight is off. The reason for the short runs is the Fuel I need to get through the day is far less than I need when running longer distances. Eating plenty of low fat protein like chicken and plenty of vegetables.

This week I plan to run my first two 10K distances one a local run on my own, the second will hopefully be this weekend’s Wings For Life World Run, it’s a fantastic event for a great cause, Spinal injury research, the run takes place In Cambridge and at the same time twenty five other countries around the world, the run is a game of chase where a car follows the runners after giving them a head start, then the car starts slowly picking up pace until it passes the final runner, when passed the runner returns back to the start, this year I hope to make around 10k last time I ran this event I was far fitter not being caught until the 18k mark.

For more info check out https://www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/gb/en/

So that’s my plan for this week hopefully I will get to record some of the race on camera and get a few stills. I will try update Sunday after the run.