Park Run #100 - "Bin A Long Time...

...bin a long time, bin a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time..."

2014 in fact when I did my first Park Run. Completed a handful, tore my calf muscle, got gastroenteritis and the rest is physiology. In 2017 I started my "Marathon or bust/slow carb" adventure and FINALLY I have 100 parkruns under my belt (where all that stomach used to be). 

My family came out to support and then encouraged me to put all that weight back on with a lovely cake

Oh and I was 10 seconds off a PB.

New PB!

Boy that nearly killed me! My lungzzzz!

Good Times

This week the training has really kicked up a gear. I've run 13.7 miles twice (2:42 on the second one) plus a couple of shorter things. Today I ran another ParkRun PB and got my best position (due, no doubt, to all the bank holiday absentees) and then ran half of the Robin Hood half marathon course as prep for the race.

I also had my weigh in - and I've dropped all my holiday weight plus an extra pound! So I'm back to having lost over 3 stone this year and, with the holiday season over, I'll hopefully keep it off.

So how does a slow carb diet guy celebrate losing three stone? Like this!!!!

CHEAT DAY!!!

Oh, and I've found this documentary so inspiring, I've watched it twice

Fat Times

Missed my Parkrun PB by 1 second today. My knee was freaking out as I approached the finish line so no big push. Then I lost my son (he went home). At home I got a free gift from Vitality - for entering the 'my summer goal' challenge - I thought it would be a free quote for health insurance, but it turned out to be this nifty little running bumbag 

thanks Vitality!

Two short holidays meant I put on 7lbs (mostly in sweets and red bull while driving) and the cunning plan of sticking to slow carb meals but then eating like a pig in between. 

Back home after 1 day back in training I lost 3lb, so fingers crossed I'll lose the rest of the holiday weight in a week or two.

By the way I discovered an alternative stay awake hack to Red Bull, Coffee and chewing gum. When you stop for a motorway break, do 3 laps of the car park (not in the car you dummy - running!). That wakes you up. 

Snowdon National Park, Wales

South Stack Rock, Wales

Coniston Water (in the distance), Lake District

Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria

Loch Lomond, Scotland

Race To The Stones have released their 2018 dates - and it's NOT on my wedding anniversary. I think my plan is to do the Leicester Marathon and not die, and then if I can talk my GLW into letting me do it and it's not sold out then sign up for 2018. If that's not possible, train for 2019 and possibly sign up for one of the shorter events in 2018.

Parkrun 190

I ran 5k faster by 6 minutes!
This is the first running session I've done without stopping.