The leggings are in...

... and they are awesome.

£95 new - £40 off ebay.

Now I feel motivated, enlightened and fit and sharp and gorgeous...

or - just £40 lighter and still waiting for the rainy hail to give over and I can try them out.

Day 1. Again

I ran this morning – further than I have for quite some time. Well done me. The reason was that I’ve decided to do the Bristol 10K in May. It gives me about 7 weeks to up my miles.

But it’s more than just an event to aim for: it’s motivation to overhaul my whole physical and mental well-being. So no pressure there then.

I have put on weight (have I mentioned that???) through over-eating and over-drinking. The part-time months have left me lazy. So now I’m working back full time I want to get back to being and feeling like the person I am.

It’s going to be tough. It’s only 430pm and I’m considering heading up to the shop to get a bottle of wine for the evening. It’s a bad idea.

How much do I want to start this journey?

I’ve been gathering inspirational sayings

1.     Motivation follows action

2.     Everything counts: every bite, every step, every sip

I reckon every extra stone in weight adds an extra minute a mile on pace: so if I was to lose the weight I could conceivably run 9-minute miles. Quite a challenge but it was a realistic aim until I had the stress fractures (mind, I was also very much younger then...)

But – every journey starts with the first step (I’ll put that as number 3) and today is just me stepping out the door…

4.18 miles

10m 01s per mile

Day 1

It's 0744 and I have already been for a run. Well done me, right!

It was OK - the hardest part was getting out the house yada yada yada


3.07 miles, 9m52s a mile so not too shabby

I think I almost enjoyed the first bit, even the hill (slight slope) - the difficulty is when I get a bit tireder and the weight starts being an issue. I guess when I was thinner I could run further before this became an issue. So I have to lose the weight

Easy, right.

But at least it's started.

Pre-relaunch

Tomorrow I begin to change my life. Not 'Tomorrow my life changes' - I am doing this.

Starting with a run - nothing special, just the first in this new chapter.

And then I build up to starting my new job early on Monday morning. 

I have been bidding for some leggings: on paper, they are my perfect running kit: zero gravity leggings They are very, very expensive. On eBay I bid  up to £25 but am already outbid. I'm glad: I didn't like them when I tried them on. I am still too fat to wear anything so beautiful.
So basically I have £95 to spend on new kit once I'm under way again

So there it is.
Ready to go.

Tomorrow