New Year, New Training regime

Hello!

Well it's been a while, and a lot happened since the last blog. Halloween... Christmas... and New Year in Cork. December was a particular bad month for health, with lots of drinking on an epic scale. New Year was a particularly big session, and it meant that starting January, I wasn't in the best of states.

So, first things first, I thought I'd lay off the alcohol till early Feb and give my body time to recover. Second, was to start my training runs back up. Third was to sign up to the Great Manchester Run on Sunday 21st May 2006.

So how am I doing?

Well, I've still not had a drink, though with the speed dating and my cousins 18th this week, it will be the toughest test I've had.

I've signed up for the Manchester run, and am aiming to do it (injury, weather and traffic permitting) between 40 and 45 minutes

Finally, the training. Well for January, I didn't want to push to hard to soon, so I just did my medium 6km course, and focused on getting my body use to running it a couple of times a week.

6.2km
03/01 - 29:28
08/01 - 29:25
14/01 - 28:36
21/01 - 27:30
22/01 - 28:08
24/01 - 29:24 - late, very cold and after food!

Well, it's a start, and I'm happy with it. In February, I'll be looking to start including some training advice from various souces into my training plan, and we'll see what happens. For the moment though, the big question is if I can make it through to February without a drink!!!

Cheers

Andy