I've been thinking about starting a blog about my running journey for a while now, so now I've finally got round to it! I discovered running about five years ago, well I say discovered, I mean introduced. I was working at the university of central lancs at the time when a colleague, Ron Bray suggested I try running and gave me some advice to get started. By all accounts Ron was an accomplished Fell runner although he never spoke about it much.
I then dipped in and out of running over the years and finally got to a level to race. I ran the Liverpool half in 2008 (2:08) and the the Blackpool marathon (4:36) I then stopped and started for another year, this finally ended we me gaining a lot of weight and getting injured! I finally undertook some physio on a persistent knee injury and started to seriously run again in October of 2010.
Since then I have managed to stay consistent with my training, currently I've run 500 miles and counting so far this year! I trained for the Liverpool half marathon and got under 2 hours, just.. With a time of 1:59:59! After that I had a solid summer of training, and would have run the Hawkshead trail race my car had packed up! But, during the training for this event the bug for trail running began to take hold and I entered the St Helens Dream Trail race. An 8k trail race in my home town, not quite Hawkeshead, but it was still a good event. I finished with a time of 45:35, which I was quite pleased with considering I had some shin splints and a bit of PF 3 weeks before.
That kind of brings things up to date and to the reason for beginning this blog. I recently discovered the Marathon talk podcast and really enjoy it. One of the episodes talked about having a 5 year plan, so that is what I will do on here. I am a goal driven person and have discovered that setting goals with running helps me maintain focus on training and other things, like work etc. So first up I will set a five year plan, with this in place I will analyse how I am going to achieve it!
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