Andrew is getting fit

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I’ve had a good day today.  Firstly, I did a good 5K run this morning before work.  5K in 24:36.  I was quite pleased with that.  Work finished at lunchtime today as I got invited along to my wife’s department’s Christmas Party.  I know it’s only October!  But key people are not going to be around during November and December so they decided to hold it early this year.

We went to the Auckland Luge and it was a lot of fun.

I’m pleased to announce that I won 7 out of 7 races we had. ;)  One of the nice things about losing a lot of weight is that there wasn’t any nervous worrying about whether or not I’d fit in the carts or things like that.  I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about that kind of thing in my time but never again!

In other news, I’ve been asked what my time goal for the Half Marathon next week is.

All the guides say don’t set a time goal for your first HM.  Just focus on finishing.  Having said that I’m fairly convinced that I will be finishing (touch wood) seeing that I’ve comfortably done more than the HM distance in training.  So I’m going to tempt fate and aim for a time goal.

Two hours was my initial goal but I should be able to beat that I think.  I’ve plugged my recent race pace and some of my faster 5K times into the various running calculators and they give me about 1:55ish.  I’d love to crack 1:50 but I don’t think that is on the cards for this time.  My dad is coming to do the race with me and my wife reckons that I’ll be happy with whatever time I get as long as I beat him. She’s a cheeky woman that one.

I’ve restarted the 100 pushups program (again!) and I thought I’d just let you know that you can get the whole program on 1 sheet of paper now.  It’s very handy and can be downloaded here.  I’m not going to bore you with daily updates on my pushups and will only report back in on it when I can do more than my previous best of 45 in a row.

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I’ve been tagged by Jeff to answer 5 questions:

1. How would you describe your running 10 years ago?

My gut instinct was to say non-existent and after much reflection I realised that my gut instinct was right. :)  I’ve only been running since January this year and I’m really sad I’ve been missing out all my life!

2. What is your best and worst run/race experience?

My best experience was my very first race as I was just so amazed and happy to be able to do it.  My 4th race was also very special as I ran it with my dad. My worst so far was pretty good too in many respects but I (and pretty much all the other runners) took a wrong turn on the track and did a lot more distance than we were supposed to.

3. Why do you run?

Cos I can!  I started running because I thought I couldn’t and now I run because I can’t stop.  I love it.

4. What is the best or worst piece of advice you’ve been given about running?

The best advice I received was to slow down.  When I started I thought that to improve I had to set a new PR each training session.  Thankfully my readers quickly pointed out that I was setting myself up for injury.

The worst was to do a full marathon.  I’ve taken the first but haven’t quite accepted the second yet…but I’m leaning towards it.

5. Tell us something surprising about yourself that not many people know.

Err…I love musicals?  Always have, always will.

In other news, the weather was crap today so I ran on the treadmill in the gym.  I ran for 30 minutes, did 30 minutess on the bike and 30 minutess on the elliptical.  And it was good. :)

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