Am I Finally Going
Mad!?!
Hi all,
After signing up for
the Royal Parks Ultra Marathon on the 7th October 2012 I thought I was starting
to finally lose the plot and had to question "Why am I going to put my
body through all of this"?
Well, now I am well
into my training for the Ultra Marathon I thought I would give you a bit of an
update on how its all going…
Having completed the
UK Ironman 70.3 race back in June I gave my poor old aching body a complete
rest for all of about 2 days! (It was then I started to panic about how I was
going to train for an Ultra Marathon!
So I went about
creating a training plan that would build up my mileage so I could be ready for
October. Now having never run this sort of distance I thought I would start
slow and see how I got on.
Over the first
couple of weeks I built up to my long run (normally at Saturday) to cover 15
miles, then 17miles the following Saturday and last week I found my self doing
20 miles!(Which I managed to convince my partner Nicki to join me on)! So my total weekly running mileage is now
about 45miles a week. This weekend its off for 22miles! Now I know there are a
lot of people out there that do this all the time and I can now say I can see
the addiction of pushing for more and more…
Now on that note, I
have also found myself in the position of signing up for more races! So here is
what I now have booked in (so far)-
London Ultra Marathon - 7th
October 2012
Nike Run to the Beat Half
Marathon - 28th October 2012
Challenge Roth FULL Ironman
Distance Race - 14th July 2013
I am also still
looking at several other races that I would love to do, just have to hope the
body can stand all the punishment!
The only race I am
doing for sponsorship is the Ultra Marathon in October, I am raising money for
SCOPE and the Royal Parks Foundation so if you can please follow the link below
to sponsor me -
For anyone else out there training hard for an event or raising money for charity remember to keep smiling and know you are doing a great thing!
Have fun and good
luck!
Mark
