Most of you who read this will already know that in some sort of fit of madness, a few weeks ago I entered myself into the Race for Life this year. "Well Done" I hear (some of) you cry, and I thank you. It does not stop there however, I could have entered to do the 5km - just over three miles - which would have been the sensible option given I am not really a runner, but no, no, why would I do that? Instead, I have opted for the 10km - just over six miles, six miles...... of running........
I am a bit like a pendulum when I think about what lies ahead, swinging from thinking this is a great thing and how proud I am of myself to thinking it is just simply ridiculous and that I will never do it, be lucky to make it half way round.
Six months ago I would have never thought I would be doing something like this, the only time I would have used running in a sentence would be when it was followed by "a bath".
When I started seeing the PT, about four months ago, I was extremely categorical that I would not run. Not even a little bit. Not ever. And bless him, he humoured me, said it was OK and not an issue and then, after less than two months, I found myself on a treadmill. He lies. I learnt this quite early on. He lies a lot. For the right reasons yes, but he still lies.
And you know what, I quite like it. Don't get me wrong, it is hard going, we do interval running and virtual each visit he increases my "quick" interval.... we are at 13kmh an hour now, which for me is just quite amazing. But I am determined, I will do this, I need to do this.
My main issue at the moment is the endurance aspect of it, I cannot run 6 miles at the moment, I would be lucky if I could run 3, so we have some work to do. I should add that the aim is not to run the 6 miles at 13kmh - that would just be silly! I am looking to try and break the hour though..... I am not promising that....
I do feel that having a small posse at the finishing line, brandishing glasses of wine at me may help....
I am under no illusion that there will be tears on the lead up to the run....... just humour me if you happen to be around me at that time...
In the meantime, the mission is on to get as much sponsorship as I can for Cancer Research. I will be running for some who are no longer with us and some who are continuing the fight. x
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