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[Bierzo Baggie]

OK, let’s see if this works. I’m going to try and use this motivational tool on a once a week basis. And this time there’s a specific event on the horizon for which I’m thinking of (dare I use the word) “training”.… in a specific, training sort of way.

There, I’ve said it.

And that was my first step.

This race I shall from now on refer to as “the race I dare not mention not even to myself (and especially not to my wife)”. The resultant acronym is TRIDNMNETM (AENTMW). A bit crap really.

If I’m absolutely honest this wasn’t the first step. I’ve already taken several tentative steps including signing up for the event in question (and this one goes to a lottery like the London marathon, so I might not get in anyway…all the more reason not to mention it then!)

What I’m yet to do is …”training,” and this is where runninngcommentary.co.uk can help me out.

Through January, February and March I’ve kept up my twice weekly running routine which has kept me in good stead for most of my adult life. One run is sometimes a half hour jaunt around the local canal and the other is generally along the hilly Monte Pajariel trails and varies from 45 minutes up to an hour and a half. But it's not really "training"; there’s no real method to the madness and no set times or distances. For The Race I dare not mention… all that must change. As our resting webmaster guru might say, “it all starts here…”