Well the last 2 weeks have been a total wash out quite literally rain has stopped play.
My training regime is such that I can only run in the evenings when my beautiful wife gets home from work, well thanks to the great Scottish weather this last fortnight has been nothing but rain rain and more rain do as a result I've not none any road work. I've still manage to get out for walks at lunchtime but no running. As a result with 3 weeks to go all I can do is just keep ticking over perhaps doing some shorter faster runs to prepare me for the big race.
Anyway as i write this the sun has decided to come out so I'm all set ready to go which is just as well because I'll be out boozing later on. Now I wont be expecting to break any records today but just to get some fitness back
As always I'd just like to thank everyone for their continued support it really does help, it's kind of weird that with only 3 weeks to go I do get this feeling that I'm going to miss some part of this? Perhaps not the runs part in February when it was -2 at night but the whole experience has been a real journey for me not only for the race but also in life.
Please please remember this is all in aid of MS Scotland a fantastic charity and a worthy cause so if you can spare anything please visit www.justgiving.com/Donnie-Robertson and give what you can
Many thanks
Donnie
Saturday 28 April 2012
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Easter - the resurrection
So its been a couple of weeks since my last blog so i thought I'd better get typing to keep you all up to date with my efforts
During the Easter holidays a couple of things happened that both hampered and helped my training
I treated myself to a week off to spend some time with the kids. This entailed eating out lots (and lots) and no exercise whatsoever (felt great). Not the greatest preparation with around 6 weeks to go but I felt I deserved it or at least convinced myself I deserved it. As a result i had no doubt put on weight and lost some amount of fitness so I was not looking not looking forward to my next run as I fully expected pain and hurt to be fair was exactly what happened. I went out on the Tuesday and did my normal 4 minute runs and 2 minute walks times 9 and it was a total disaster I felt really heavy and tired and was so glad to get it out of the way not so glad that my next run was going to be 5 minute runs and 1 minute walks my toughest one yet....................
So here i was back to work back to cold damp nights and the prospect of my biggest run yet, bad times. I had one ray of light to look forward to and that was catching up with a good friend on the Friday over a few beers, a great way to ease myself into the weekend and my first week back at work. Anyway as things turned out the drinks had to be postponed for a couple of weeks so as exciting as my life is on a Friday night I decided to go out for a run instead and free up my weekend.
So I've got on my running gear and set off on what I know is going to be a tough test 5 minutes running with only 1 minute rests and to be honest it felt strangely good? The running element wasn't as hard as I thought there were times when I got to the end of the 5 minutes and felt really strong the only difference was the rest periods, until now there had always been at least 2 minutes of rest in-between each repetition so having to adjust to 1 minute was a total nightmare, no way long enough to get any kind of recovery so it just feels like you are running all the time
This being the case I got my ass round a good 8.5k and felt really good so I thought hell yeah just keep going and I did until I heard this wonderful sound in my head (via the running app not actual voices in my head) that said "distance 10 kilometres" not normally something to get excited about but to me the guy who couldn't even run for 30 seconds without struggling a few months ago the 6.2 miles covered was sheer bliss and a real boost 5 weeks before the big race as now I know what it feels like and know that I can do it. Now I'm not expecting to run 10k all the time now but as long as I keep the fitness ticking over then I should be in good shape come race day
On a final note again thank you to everyone to has encouraged and spurred me on with my training its been a huge lift and makes life all the better knowing I have a good support out there cheering me on so thanks folks.
You all should know by now why a I am doing this so I don't want to be all Bono and harp on too much but MS Scotland is a fantastic cause to get behind and your money will really help everyone involved to please give as little or as much as you can http://www.justgiving.com/Donnie-Robertson
During the Easter holidays a couple of things happened that both hampered and helped my training
I treated myself to a week off to spend some time with the kids. This entailed eating out lots (and lots) and no exercise whatsoever (felt great). Not the greatest preparation with around 6 weeks to go but I felt I deserved it or at least convinced myself I deserved it. As a result i had no doubt put on weight and lost some amount of fitness so I was not looking not looking forward to my next run as I fully expected pain and hurt to be fair was exactly what happened. I went out on the Tuesday and did my normal 4 minute runs and 2 minute walks times 9 and it was a total disaster I felt really heavy and tired and was so glad to get it out of the way not so glad that my next run was going to be 5 minute runs and 1 minute walks my toughest one yet....................
So here i was back to work back to cold damp nights and the prospect of my biggest run yet, bad times. I had one ray of light to look forward to and that was catching up with a good friend on the Friday over a few beers, a great way to ease myself into the weekend and my first week back at work. Anyway as things turned out the drinks had to be postponed for a couple of weeks so as exciting as my life is on a Friday night I decided to go out for a run instead and free up my weekend.
So I've got on my running gear and set off on what I know is going to be a tough test 5 minutes running with only 1 minute rests and to be honest it felt strangely good? The running element wasn't as hard as I thought there were times when I got to the end of the 5 minutes and felt really strong the only difference was the rest periods, until now there had always been at least 2 minutes of rest in-between each repetition so having to adjust to 1 minute was a total nightmare, no way long enough to get any kind of recovery so it just feels like you are running all the time
This being the case I got my ass round a good 8.5k and felt really good so I thought hell yeah just keep going and I did until I heard this wonderful sound in my head (via the running app not actual voices in my head) that said "distance 10 kilometres" not normally something to get excited about but to me the guy who couldn't even run for 30 seconds without struggling a few months ago the 6.2 miles covered was sheer bliss and a real boost 5 weeks before the big race as now I know what it feels like and know that I can do it. Now I'm not expecting to run 10k all the time now but as long as I keep the fitness ticking over then I should be in good shape come race day
On a final note again thank you to everyone to has encouraged and spurred me on with my training its been a huge lift and makes life all the better knowing I have a good support out there cheering me on so thanks folks.
You all should know by now why a I am doing this so I don't want to be all Bono and harp on too much but MS Scotland is a fantastic cause to get behind and your money will really help everyone involved to please give as little or as much as you can http://www.justgiving.com/Donnie-Robertson
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