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Just got back from a surf, frankly the first since the big man came along and am knackered, proobably more than the last few runs!

can feel the lacto acid burning in the arms!!

i guess that's good in a way??

some people are really funny.

I was driving home from picking up the boy last week and saw on of the guys on one of my site running, so i thought i would ask for some advice.

after some good advice he turns round and adds "you have the build for a distance runner - you might even start enjoying it!"

not sure how to take that...
(eddited for poor spelling - even by my standard)

Prevarication is the name of the game...

Don't worry, Russ - you aren't alone! I'm still telling myself I'll lace my trainers up and go out tomorrow! I am trying to avoid the shin splints and general pain of September last year though by doing more cross training and less (well, at the moment, no) pavement pounding. Even though I'm not actually running, I'm trying to convince myself time spent at the gym all counts.

I went to a body attack class last night and feel like I've been beaten up with a baseball bat this morning, so it must be doing me some good!

Eeeek and double eeeek!

I thought I would look back to this time last year to see how training was going and was aghast as the fact that I was running 10km in an hour. Seeing as we are a couple weeks closer to race day this year and I am not at this pace/distance/time (delete as applicable) I think I need to put some more effort in and post haste. Is anyone else struggling?

All very quiet on the blog front.

Guilt all of the way now...

My ten year old has just completed the De La Salle walk (18km) in 2 hours 21 mins with no training at all. Proud, you bet your ass...but I feel even slower than normal now! Maybe I can use him as a pace maker seeing as he is too young to run the GNR proper.

Lightning...

Yup, definitely my hamstring....ouch, ow, ouch, ooh, ow!

New Year, same race, same old excuses

Have trained, have lost pace and distance, have managed to strain/damage hamstring and am suffering just as I was trying to build up some return to form. It seems harder this year somehow but am determined to knock off those three minutes and go sub 2 hours so will press on regardless. After the niggling ITBS problems after GNR08 and then various illnesses and other miscellaneous reasons for not getting regular training in have now found that I am struggling for breath after a few km which is also a bit of a worry but I am jiggered if I am going to miss this year after the fun had last time round.

Hell, I even have a direct flight back from Newcastle on the Monday....at least until the airline pulls a fast one of course and sends it via Reykjavik or somewhere equally poverty stricken!

Gooday Troops

Hi from the not so large runner,

As i cannot make GNR this year as i have an off island thing planned already, plus they changed the dates, i have vowed to fight the Team Atko thing locally. so far i have listed to do most if not all of the 1/2 marathons with the aim of completeing the marathon at end of year (Yea Right)!!

Anyone wishing to see me in action should go to st. Peters Pub........sorry thats after.

Rab xx

Right then...

Before we knew it the race was upon us, then the money poured in and we ended up writing a big old cheque to the RNLI St Helier Lifeboat appeal for £17,000!

What an incredible amount of support people gave us! Thank you thank you thank you!

I don't know yet what our target will be this year, or indeed which charity/s we will raise money for - but needless to say I don't think we can better £17,000!

At the moment, eight members of Team Atko will be on the start line at the end of September, for the 2009 Bupa Great North Run. It is great to see the team carrying on what we started last year. This is all a bit of an extreme way of me getting my mates to visit -and it seems to be working!

I took a bit of time out from my brutal training regime - about 6 months actually and I am back to being a little larger than before, but still able to run a few K's without too much trouble.

Ian's birthday is on 12th of April so I hope to be ready for a 5k then and build slowly from there.

I was pleased with my time last year of 2 hours 38 all things considered, but I wont have cracked the Great North Run until I do it in under 2 hours!

So as of tomorrow - the training starts...

Anyone here??

Hello??? anyone here??

oh just you and me then, right, don't say anything, but i've started training properly!!

did three miles tonight. only twenty five weeks to go before i have to do thirteen!

it's going surpringlsy well!!

might be different after friday night's run....

Now where did I leave my saddle?

Finally, and with due thanks to Mr Westcott Snr, I am able to tentatively start training again although for the time being I am restricted to short forays to see how the ITBs hold up. Have managed two 2km jogs with no problems thus far so fingers crossed for proper race pace and training distances in due course (despite those crafty geordies bringing the date forward to September).

Bizarrely, I have really missed running and am looking forward to the next competitive sojourn whether it be the Jersey North, the Great North or anything else that might pop up. I would never have thought I would feel so attached to such a ridiculous sport...!

The show must go on

Hello Large runner here.

Just thought i would let you all know that i am now training for next year anyone who wishes to come and join the fun give me a call. This morning i was up at 05:55 and running at 06:30. Start was Pisces gym to town and back a nice little 12ish miles.

Love

Uncle Rab