Fitba gave me up when I was 44 - so I started running.
Captain S beat me in last year's Paisley 10k - because of Billy Mehmet...
Billy had scored, Thundermonkey will be pleased to recall, in the final minutes at Tent City last September, and so we won 1-0 which meant I had 8 pints in total that day by the time I sloped off early-ish to bed...
...with a black pudding supper. (I'm not in Bonnie Scotland often enough and so have 'desires'. )
I had a very bad night's kip - and thus a bad run. I'd hoped to be in among the prizes... there are lots of prizes in the Paisley 10k and 6 for Vet 60s - my happy breed.
But I did 50 minutes 49 secs, I think, a pw.
If any of you fancy a target - how about Paisley 10k in September and trying to beat a baldy London basturt aged 61?
I'll post a link to it when the time comes round - but start training now - make it atarget. We all need targets... A 101 year old did the local (hilly) 1/2 marathon in 5h 13m last Sunday. I am in awe.
I don't have Nike gear; I don't have an I-pod; I run at least 3 times a week for at least an hour in the mud and on the hills and rough trails of Epping Forest and try to do 3 gym sessions a week.
If you want to get good at running - I'm too old and took it up too late: you lot are NOT - then get into a routine - ignore bad weather or hangovers or anything that interferes - get structure into your running so you do it almost automatically.
JOIN A CLUB OR GET PALS WHO RUN SO YOU'RE COMMITTED TO MEETING THEM FOR THE RUN EVEN ON THE WORST OF DAYS...
when I was doing my fastest marathons I was running over 1100 miles a year. Keep a diary - or does the Nike stuff do that for you?
I will be an evangelist when I grow up.
ps The Cap is not bull-shitting (THIS TIME). Though we're both Buddies, I've never met him but do know his real name and his times in races have been very impressive. Now, let's see how running with a Big Heid slows him up...
pps Was it Iceman(?) in London on a course - so NOT running? Everywhere I go I take my gear and get out and explore. It's even possible to run in a great city like London.
ppps "we run because we like it through the broad bright land"
I hope this helps?
