The reasoning behind the madness!

The reasoning behind the madness!

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UPDATE! 25 Oct 2010

It is with great sadness that I write this update. On the 25th October 2010 my little sister sadly passed away at the age of 31. She had bravely battled MND for 11 years. She had never given up and had achieved to much even after developing MND, winning the Open University award for achievement to gaining a degree. She will be greatly missed and will for ever be in our thoughts. Love you sis :D

Well where to start, it was all originally done as I was carry to much weight and wanted to loose it. Which I am sure it most peoples story begins, however after loosing the weight I actually started to enjoy running outside. Joined some forums (BCTTT & Runners World), there inspiration and helpfullness has helped me a lot. Now I am also swimming and commuting a couple of times a week to work on my bike! Now since 2011 I accomplished more than I thought I ever would or could. From 5k runs to an Ironman in 2014 and The Outlaw in 2015. In 2016 I am going down a different route, I will be trying Ultra's as you can see from my events I have already entered 3 so far. Now I thought wait a minute I need to have one more motivation and that people is my sister Emma. Since the age of 20 she was very unfortunate and developed MND (Motor Neurone Disease), she is now 31 years of Age. Her health has deteriatated over the years and we nearly lost her last year. My mum had to give up her work and become a full time carer for my sister and my dad takes over the duties when he comes home from work. All the races I do will be in aid of my sister and all money raised will be donated to MND to help raise awareness and research in the disease. Thanks for all your help and enjoy my training blog,

Wednesday 19 February 2014

The run before the massage

Err yes today I had booked in for a sports massage. I was in need of it due to all the training. Before I did though there was a little thing of a run that I had to do well a 80 minute run to do. 

For this I had to be up early, have not been up at this time for quite a while was about 5:45am to get my breakfast before I headed out at 6:30am to start the run (yes I did stretches before I headed out). I did a gentle jog to warm the legs up as they even thought what was I doing up at this time. 

Then it was pick a route and go for it, I roughly knew where I was going to run, the weather was not too bad (basically it was not snowing). The run took in a few hills and also James Hamilton park which is great for a easy run as it is all on the flat. The pace of 9:05 includes the 9 min at the start of easy jog then tried to get into my marathon pace. However my HR was on the high side. Had to slow to a walk on 2 occasions. The legs had nothing more to give from yesterdays swim and turbo session.

Now the sports massage was sore but well worth it. The pain was more of an uncomfortable pain. I would advise those that are doing a lot of exercise to get it done, also if you have a foam roller use that on a weekly basis. 
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