Project Good For Age! Week 5 of 30
Goal : Automatic Entry Into the London Marathon
How? : Run a 3:15 Mara @ Manchester Mara in April (Current PB 4:45)
First Step : Run a 45 Minute 10k @ Windmill 10k race in November (10k time at start of project 57:58) www.strava.com/activities/1188827899
This Weeks 10k Time : 45:55 Whoop Whoop!! (See Below)
Absolutely Buzzing!!!
Here is what happened in week 5
Behaviour
Very well behaved however the big test is coming next week.
On Thursday its my dad’s memorial football match in Barnsley at the local youth team that he used to coach.
Last year, this turned into a piss up.
Stuff like this has the potential to wipe out all my great work in training as quick as you can say ‘pint of stella’
The thing is, a normal person would get into their car, drive over the M62, watch the match, then drive straight home.
But as you know, Iron Rookie is not a ‘normal person’…..
Iron Rookie starts planning a mad adventure involving lunchtime trains and pubs en route and hotels etc etc etc .
Do you think Mohammed Farrah goes out on an all day bender a couple of weeks before a big race?
I don’t think so…
The truth is that being a good little boy all the time is all well and good but after a while it starts to get a bit boring and you feel like you are ‘missing out’ so you begin to crave a ‘mad adventure’
Getting the choo choo over to Barnsley and making ‘a day/night of it’ is a golden opportunity for a ‘mad adventure’
The devil is rattling the cage, rattling the cage…
But one must resist…
We will see what will happen…..
Diet
I completely lost the plot diet wise this week and I am now convinced I have some sort of eating dis-order.
Case in point I stood looking at a loaf of Warburtons fruit bread in Tesco for about 5 minutes whilst I debated with myself about buying it.
I knew exactly what would happen if I bought it.
In the end I decided that I can have it but will allow myself a maximum of two slices per day.
I bought it on the Thursday.
By Friday lunch there was only the crust left.
What is wrong with me?
I really want to lose weight.
I know exactly what I need to do in order to lose the weight – control my calorie intake.
So why, on occasion, do I appear to become possessed and start munching everything in sight?
This seriously needs sorting out.
Weight
On my scales I weighed 13stone 11 but on the Bodytrax ones it was 13/8 with 23.2% bodyfat versus a start point of 14 stone and 25%
The ‘gap’ between the two instruments is annoying me but lets run with the Bodytrax ones.
Despite the poor diet I am feeling surprisingly light and everything appears to be fairly tight – If I can just sort the diet out then this is the key to making big gains in this regard.
As I keep saying, losing bodyfat in a quest to increase running speed is a complete no brainer but trying to remember that on a Wednesday night when a big box of malteesers keep winking at me is a different matter entirely.
Training
My ‘standard’ training has gone really well however I mixed it up on Wednesday.
I got it into my head that my benchmark Sunday Run would be so much easier if it was completely flat so I mapped out a new course of the same distance on totally flat terrain and laced up the mizunos…
Guess what happened?
My time was slower! (47 minutes)
This pissed me off.
Not only that but I felt like I was fighting it from the beginning and throughout – my heart rate way higher than I want it to be – way higher.
Nice try Rookie but no cigar….
Super Sunday ‘Benchmark’ 10k
Storm dorris is here.
If you think I am going out trying to PB my run in that you can think again sunshine.
What this allowed me to do though was something else….
This…….
A year they told me it would take to do that…..
A Fookin Year…………..
Keep going Rookie, keep going son!
Next update 28/10/17 – 3 weeks till race day!
By the way, I have written a book, it’s all about how I went from zero fitness to completing an Ironman triathlon, it’s only just come out but it has got some fantastic reviews already!- you can check them out here: (also available on Amazon in the US but please read the UK reviews first!)
To your amazing journey!