I already have a blog on Fetcheveryone, but this one is going to be slightly different. It's going to be mainly about training, what I'm doing, what I'm not doing, what I plan to do, you know the sort of thing.
You see last year I had this mad notion to enter the Lakeland 50 event, but I didn't tell anyone so I couldn't really write anything about my training or recce runs etc, so I have decided that if I manage to get an entry this year I will keep an account of my progress. I say progress because although I did finish last year I want to be a bit quicker at my next attempt and now I know just exactly what's expected and what to expect at the event I know what I need to include in the training schedule etc.,
Tonight I went a walk over Halliday Hill at Glenmidge with OH, Kona, Frank and Tramp, I used trekking poles for the first time. I had seen a great many of the competitors at L100 and L50 using them, and intend to include their use in my training plan, just so that I have the option of using them in the event if I wish. At present I am using the ones we already have, but I have my eye on a pair of Alpkit foldable ones. My headtorch is Alpkit which I felt was actually better than my L50 buddies one which was Petzl. Mine had a much better beam.
I'm not sure how having two blogs is going to work but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.
I once wanted to be an ultra runner, and in my dreams I still do but reality and dreams are two different things, or are they. As they say on report cards, must try harder. Let's go, life is for living,learning, adventuring and enjoying. Here I will record my journey to if not achieving anything close to a dream at least having fun and improving my fitness along the way.
Saturday, 20 August 2011
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