Its the big one Year 50. If I teleported back Ten years to life approaching my 40th Birthday I could not have even dreamt up some of the things I have done since. A lot of stuff changed and for the better I may add. It all stemed from running up a hill one day getting to the top knackered and out of breath, deciding that turning back was not an option. So whats ahead for the next Ten (if I get that far) who knows but I am really looking forward to pushing out the boundaries on this.
Christmas Pudding
Yes that little thing that sits just below your stomach and appears every year without fail in the New Year. Had dreaded the stand on the scale on Monday morning and even threattent the scales with the bold corner if it did not behave. Well the scales are in the bold corner, up 10lbs since Frankfurt and I honestly cannot think of how that happened. Anyway its a good incentive to start the year on.
Goals for the Year
Before I can go about setting some I will need to get back to where I was last summer before a few niggles set me back. Currently my easy running pace is slow, the extra pudding is not helping. How would it. I have decided to complete the my 50th Marathon a bit quicker then planned, just get them done ASAP, and during this time I will try and get weekly mileage up a bit more so that I have a good solid base to come off. This means not racing a spring marathon or for that matter anything longer then 10K.
parkrun
As many now know Operation Transformation has joined up with parkrun this year. Well last week they where to film in Lees Road. We had heard they where coming but at 9:15 got a phone call with a request to delay the star until after 10. This didnt happen. parkrubn starts at 9:30 and changes for nobody. They duelly arrived at 10:15 when most of the runners had gone home. Spent the next hour filming and getting the poor remaining souls to shout “Operation Transformartion” and jump up and down. Roll on next week and we had our record attendance of 249, hopefully we can get these people to come back in March and April. Clearly the advantage of getting some national TV airtime outweigh the disadvantage of having to spend a morning in the cold with a film crew.
Whatever about your weight (or age!), well done for not giving in to the TV crew and delay the parkrun start. If they are not professional enough to turn up on time it's their own fault.
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