Good Intentions

My friend Lorna got me into running. She is quite experienced, a few half marathons under her belt, and now, she has ran the Brighton Marathon twice. I used to think she was bonkers, especially running 7 miles home from work. Off her trolley. She did, however, manage to convince me to come with her on some of her short runs and see what I thought. I still remember the first one vividly. I enjoyed the runs we did, and Lorna warned me that I would catch 'the bug'. I laughed at her suggestion.

She was right.

When I first started my running back in October the intention was to lose weight. I signed up for the Great Manchester 10k to give myself a goal so I wouldn't quit. I honestly didn't think it was something I would keep up with. Lorna was right and I started to love it more and more. So much so I was looking for more races, but interesting ones as I thought I would easily get bored running road races all the time. Then I heard about the Hell Run and thought 'I'm having some of that!'.

Just a couple of weeks before I signed up for Brighton, me and my friend Cat were out on a 9 miler, just chatting away, both agreeing how the prospect of running for 5+ hours, i.e. a marathon, was bonkers and how we would never do it. Cue a week later, Cat posts on Facebook that she has signed up for Brighton after a really bad day at work. I needled her about this, he reply being 'It's ok, since you're doing it with me the training will be alot easier'.

Yes, that's precisely what she said. After a few discussions and some to and fro ing, I signed up aswell. Glutton for punishment I was told.

Then I started reading Ben Does Life after seeing his 120lb journey on le YouTube. He inspired me to think 'If he can do an Ironman, why cant I?'.

So here I am now. All these things planned ahead of me and always looking for more. I'm constantly assessing what I want to do next. Ironman 70.3 2012 is looking like a very tempting prospect at the moment.