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All About ME!

Ok so you noticed that the completed site isn't completed!
Well life hasn't allowed the luxery or motivation to pull ones finger out and do the update properly (I have several pages of code on my PC though if that counts!)
So in the mean time I thought I would follow young PantMan and provide a brief profile of me!

Age: 31
Star Sign: Aries (stubborn!)
Location: Leicestershire, UK
Occupation: Techincal Support Engineer (AKA Dogs body of IT)

I've been running for about 2.5yrs now and although I have completed marathons before (1 running and 2 walking events) I have remained consistently slow! This isn't helped by the few (28 ish) excess pounds I carry about with me or my short legs! (I'm only 5' 1.5")

Why is this relevent to this FLM05 Blog?

Well to succeed in my mision of a sub 5hr marathon I need to consistently run 26.2m at a pace of approximately 11mins 27secs per mile!

Like every other runner I do have "A PLAN" only my Plan is currently to aim for sub 5hrs! So not a very detailed plan! But still I have 156 days (as of today) left to worry about this!

Now traditionally a training schedule for a full marathon is 16 weeks long, which leaves me about 5 weeks to play with. The sensible runner will factor in these excess weeks to allow for rest, injury, colds etc. I however believe that if you think you will get a cold or injured then you are more likely to do just that! So in my positive manner I am using these begining few weeks to "Get up to speed!"!

What I aim to do is use these weeks to get stronger and faster with the theory being that once I can consistently run, say 7m, at a faster pace then I can increase my run length knowing that I have more chance of staying at that faster pace. Problem is I am very set in my plodding ways and find my legs only go one speed! This is fine for long slow runs on a Sunday morning when the name of the game is "time on feet" and building endurance but when I want to run faster I need to be able to!

Does that make any sense? I only ask as the folks on the Runners World Forum seem to think I'm being foolish. That upset me a bit - after all no one knows yourself as well as you.

Somewhere along the line I also want to lose some weight! Now perhaps it is the Aries in me but I've learnt over the years that I am a stubborn pixie! I've also learnt the in's and out's of almost every popular diet and yet I am still overweight! So I'm having to do the only thing I know will work ... I'm obsessing over it! Yes I'm counting calories, writing everything down and thinking about losing weight every day and hour. So far I've lost 2lb which is good for 1 week so only 26 to go! As long as I am a good stone lighter come April I'll be happy, I'll be happier with more!

Anyway I expect you all feel asleep 5 minutes ago so I'll shut up for now!

Comments

RobW said…
Pixie - Your not been foolish, you do what works for you!

Robert aka RobW
7:49 AM, November 17, 2004
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