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Tuesday Aug 19, 2008
What's love got to do with it?
My other half has agreed to 'run' the first ever Royal Parks Half Marathon with me in October in a bid to raise some money for YouthNet.
Now neither of us is especially athletic nor have we ever committed to anything like this before, so it will certainly be a challenge for both of us. But hey we've been together a very long time so it will be a new learning experience, something we can do together and a great way for us to spend time together over these summer months. That's what I thought before we started anyhow!
In fact there are a few things I haven't mentioned, to begin with he is much taller and fitter than I am this means naturally his stride is far greater making him much faster, so for him to jog slowly is for me to sprint. This is a problem because he is always ahead of me, so whilst I try to play catch up (so that we can begin spending that time together bit I talked about earlier) my confidence is being kicked away by the backs of his heels. Note this is the first obstacle.
Secondly motivation was always going to be a challenge with this kind of thing, and believe me when it is hard enough to motivate yourself to go for a run the last thing you want to do is have to inspire your 'training buddy' to accompany you, particularly one that leaves you lagging behind!
Finally this running malarkey seems to be taking more time up than I had hoped (maybe because my miles are quite slow) so its fairly difficult to fit a 'run' in let alone fit it in both our diaries at the same time.
Despite all this we have now actually been training together for over a week (yes I am sticking to a sort of plan since my last blog) and I'm beginning to realise that maybe love has a lot to do with it. We need to be devoted to the plan if we are ever going to finish the course, we need to compromise with one another if we want to do it together, if we want to avoid any injuries we are going to have to start caring better for our bodies and finally on the day its going to be one another that will get us through to the finish line.
(Ahhh that was a very syrupy blog wasn't it, don't get me wrong next time we are out 'running' together I will be humming in my head 'here I go again on my own' grrrr)
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