September...

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

OK yeah alright, I've bitten the bullet (where the heck did that expression originate anyway??) and I'm officially in training for the Point to Pinnacle 21.4 km race from sea level to the top of Mount Wellington (1270m) on Nov 27th.

As much as I'd love to run it, that really is beyond me, so I'm in race walk mode and training is well under way with the first three moderately gruelling sessions in the bag already.

Because I already know I could walk it (given enough time), the real test is to come up with a target time and train toward that. It's too early to know what a suitable target is just yet, but looking at last year's results, the median race walk time was around 3:18, so it'd be nice to think I could perhaps sneak in a little over that, but that's a way off yet. The elite walkers easily come in under 2:30, which is what a lot of people would run a half on the flat, let along race walk up a bloody mountain...!

Thus far the training is going excellently, so motivation won't be a problem. For the moment, anyhow

I'll keep you posted...

And apart from the treadmill training, I've even made some adjustments to my diet, with a total alcoholic abstinence yesterday and only one beer today, so far with no ill affects, apart from an unusual craving for dessert. Hmm. Might have to work on tha a bit. Mind you, with my treadmill sessions all happening on 7%+ slopes, I should be able to eat any bloody thing I like... yeah right. Dream on MLC Man.

Oh how I hate the metabolism of middle age.

Now there's a book title for you...