Tuesday 1 October 2013

13.1

So, the training for the Nottingham Half Marathon went something like this:

Time to event: 6 months plus

  • Discuss idea with Mrs A and convince her it's a great idea.
  • Create training plan

Time to event: 3 months

  • Congratulate Mrs A on her continued steady 3-4 times a week runs.
  • Accept that original plan has been totally ignored.
  • Create new training plan based around new, shorter time to event.
Time to event: 1 month

  • Congratulate Mrs A on her continued steady 3-4 times a week runs.
  • Accept that revised plan has been totally ignored.
  • Decide to do one 10 mile run and, if that goes well, stop worrying about not having done any training. At all.
Time to event: 1 week

  • Congratulate Mrs A on her continued steady 3-4 times a week runs.
  • Accept that 10 mile run hasn't happened.
  • Think about carb-loading plan
  • Find trainers.
Time to event: 2 days

  • Go out on a works night out for a couple of colleagues who are leaving.
  • Get involved in numerous drinking games.
  • Roll home at 1:30am in the morning.
Time to event: 1 day

  • Deal with monstrous hangover.

And so, on the day of the event I stood on the startline with my beautiful wife. She was well prepared but nervous. I was horribly unprepared, untrained, non-carb-loaded, dehydrated but unrealistically optimistic. 

A few miles, a few hours and a few painful joints later a cheerful kid in combat fatigues standing just behind the finish line gave Mrs A and myself one of these each:


We also got a customary post-race bag of tat, but I ate the only things worth taking a photo of.

Was it worth the pain on the day? Absolutely.
Will we be doing it again any time soon? Not a chance.

NDC

3 comments:

  1. So impressed. Wish I could run ......am afflicted by arson couch......well done both x

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  2. Well done...really like your training plan!

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  3. Libby - I have a training plan if you'd like it. It's in pristine condition on account of it being entirely unused. Thanks for the donation by the way. I'm not sure if I already said that, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I haven't. So thank you.

    NB - it was, literally, nothing.

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