Half Marathon Training diary - Story So Far
I’ll be running the Cardiff Half Marathon on 16 October, which is scarily already less than a month away. This reckless enterprise is in support of the Neonatal Unit at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who cared for our son for the first three weeks of his life. It’s a good cause and you should seriously consider <a href=”http://www.justgiving.com/smugpie/”>donating</a>.
I started training in July. That first run - if you can call it that - was quite dispiriting. A 4k run out of the village and back. The slight incline out of the village proved too much, and I partly walked it with disappointment in every step.
But that was an easy hurdle to overcome, and I’ve been gradually increasing my distance and speed. Last Sunday I ran the Cardiff 10k in a personal best time of 1:02:29 and I was overjoyed.
I’ve now lost 9lbs in the last month and hope to lose a few more pounds in the coming weeks.
Now that Autumn has arrived with a vengeance it’s harder to step out of the front door, but the lure of faster times is quite addictive. I’ll be out for a 12k run tonight - a reasonably flat run to Barry and back - so this will be the biggest test so far.
