Inspiration & Weight Loss

[El Gordo]

Robert - my training regime is very up-and-down at the moment. I've had a very patchy year. Started off pretty well, but then I had two calf injuries, which kept me out for about 3 months in total. Late summer was better, and just recently has been pretty good.

At the moment I'm not training for anything in particular, so there's no great pattern, but I'm trying to run 4 or 5 times a week. I try to run 3 or 4 times during the week before work, and once or twice at the weekend. Just recently I've not been running great distances. My standard round-the-block early morning run is 3.5 miles, and I try to do something longer at the weekend - perhaps 5 or 6 miles (though I didn't this weekend just gone).

It's one of the good things about gearing up towards a particular race like a marathon or half marathon. You follow a training programme which provides motivation. If you have a chart on the wall or in a spreadsheet, telling you that you have to run certain distances on certain days, it provides some structure and discipline to what would otherwise be just a casual tendency to run.

All that said, if you've read any of the training logs here you'll be well aware that I frequently miss runs or have to curtail them for some reason, so I'm no saint. But without a training schedule to follow, I'm worse.

Great news about doing the half.

Cheers

Andy