Hello everyone.
You are now officially part of my journey from lazy fat bastard towards elite superstardom. Ok, well a sub 35minute 10km. That’s pretty much the same thing right? Feel free to encourage me or give me abuse along the way. Whatever you think will help me make some progress.
The reason I am writing about my training is that I am notoriously bad at sticking to any sort of training commitment or plan. Over the years I’ve decided to focus on triathlon and bought every bit of gear possible before then deciding running is more my thing and selling it all. Then bored of just running I decide to take up triathlon again and repeat the cycle. My wife Amy has given up even commenting. Even within each sport I have driven myself crazy trying to decide whether to focus on short distances or long distances, whether to focus on road running or trail and fell running. The choice of so many different events has paralysed me. If I choose one then I miss out on another. It relates to Barry Schultz’s Paradox of Choice. I’m sure it is all a form of procrastination to actually putting in the training for anything!
Ever since I took up running in 2003 I have only really had a few short periods of time where I have really committed to it. In 2009 (aged 29) I upped my mileage for a few months and ran 34.46 for 10km. Then in 2013/2014 I was excellently coached towards the Manchester marathon and ran a 01:16:04 half marathon along the way before running 02:46:54 at Manchester. After all that hard work the marathon course turned out to be short and so my time doesn’t even count as official. It is listed on the running results website ‘PowerofTen’ as ‘ShortMarathon’. What I’m getting at here is that I haven’t even scratched the surface of my running potential. Now aged 39 it is possible that I won’t ever beat those times again. But I’m going to give it a damn good try. In a conversation the other day about running times I caught myself saying that ‘I used to be a runner’. I felt old and I didn’t like it! Time to get serious!
From beer belly to sub 35minute 10km before I turn 40. 
Good luck Gittens, I believe in you; seen it first-hand before (albeit almost 20 years’ ago) so don’t see why it can’t be done again.
Need regular updates of body comp and performance improvements so that you are forced to stay on the straight and narrow!
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Hi Nic, sorry for the slow reply. I couldn’t work out how to approve the comment! Thanks for the support. Good idea. I have just posted my weight and body fat % on my last post. If I’m feeling brave I might post a ‘before photo’ too :-0) How’s things with you? Are you getting much exercise in?
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