Ok, so like many other people out there, the New Year brings with it a time to make resolutions. Everyone does it, and I (like you all) make resolutions. The tricky part is sticking to them. How many times have you (or someone you know) said something like: "This year I am going to lose weight..." or "This year I will get fit and complete my first half marathon..."? Sound familiar?
Well this year I am going to follow though. My girlfriend has decided that it is time to get into the fitness "thing" and we have targeted running a half marathon. I have already run a couple of half-marathons (none of them I prepared for - leading to soreness and general unhappiness for the 2 or 3 days after the event), but this year we are going to stick to a program, and I *will* break 2 hours in a half marathon.
Our first target was the Two Oceans half, but that is a little too soon and we already have plans for Easter weekend, so we will target something later in the year - if anyone out there reads this and has a suggestion for an easy half somewhere in South Africa, please leave a comment.
In the meantime, we will be sticking to a program where we run for a specified time (rather that a set distance). I think that this will be easier to manage, as there will be no guess work as to what distances we have covered (although I plan on using the Nike+ GPS App on my iPhone to track our progress). Maybe in time we will move over to distances, but for now - time is our friend.
First run is this afternoon (Monday Jan 3 2011), so I will be keeping a log of our progress here.
Later
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