Our bodies can be present in our work, but our hearts, minds, and imaginations can be placed firmly in neutral or engaged elsewhere
After a joyful and slightly indulgent June & July I finally endeavoured to start training for Dublin Marathon in the hope that the motivation for 9 days of gruelling trekking in China – 5-8hrs daily would kick in.
Surely with the fear and purpose of 2 such feats, motivation would be high!! Unfortunately not, kinda mixed emotions of self-worth, the customary summer flu and visit to a healer to finally get to the bottom of gut and stomach problems.
Just what could I not stomach?? (More on that again)
Marathon runners are sensitive beasts the range of emotions, running highs/lows, fake injuries, head problems, tiredness….mental/physical, there so fecking grumpy.
Id missed the grumpy part for now!!
Anyways below is a few things I’ll be up to regarding fundraising and of course how training went for week 1!
Fundraising
The many people who have given of their money are truly inspiring, I don’t expect much and realise that everyone is always being tagged with a begging bowl for the many different charities locally and nationally, this whole trip is funded by me for me, and with that process I intend to raise as much as I can for Diabetes Uk & Kidney Research Uk so any pound or pence is always welcomed.
Charity Body Pump
So with the fundraising, I’ve decided with the help of Tel’s Fitness, Downpatrick (Andrew Telford) The Daily Grind (Johnny Maloney) and of course me, to run a 3 hour Charity Body Pump on Saturday 8th September.
Details on how to book will be through www.facebook.com/TelsFitnessDownpatrick
Hopefully, in the next week, there will be a poster and a bit more advertising all support is much appreciated as always.
Week 1 Training – Starting Tuesday 31st July
- MonCycle – 30 mi
- Tue10.98 mi
- Wed5 mi
- Thu6.61 mi
- Fri7.61 mi
- Sat10.56 mi
- Sun10 mi
Week total 50.76 miles
All my stats and figures are on Garmin Connect Username: Erminza hit me up if you feel the need.
Sometimes a run can wake you up. Occasionally a run can awaken something deep inside of you.. Belief… And a path to something new.
This week was just about consistency trying to get my lazy ass out every day no pace just run to feel, listening very much to heart rate if the pace is slow so be it, realistic yeah, im maybe a few weeks behind the seasoned campaigners however what I’m trying to do is shed a few excess pounds from the many glasses of wine & odd visit or 2, or 3 to the Chinese, Dominos and the like totally human 🙂
Building on the fundamental’s of what my strengths are, endurance and experience of how to run a marathon, pace it and get what I want from it, this will be my 28th Marathon in Dublin.
I’ll reveal what the timed goal is in a further posting!
Enough ramblings….catch you soon G:)
Catch you soon. G