After completing the 10K for MND I foolishly stopped my training.
I decided to restart it during the week, I stretched just as much as I normally did. I walked 5 times further for my warm up. I went for 1 mile: jog 4 walk 2. I had a long walk to warm down.
I still managed to pull my right calf !
This was something I had when i was training regularly, the only thing that helped was going for a weekly massage.
I have changed the way that I walk so that I am stretching my calfs more and I feel a twinge with every step, this is helping me slightly but not “fast” enough. I want to get back out and do more.
Any suggestions for “better” or “more appropriate” stretches that I should do?
Both Emma and Sarah were recently recognised for their hard work at school.
They make me so proud!
A happy coincidence, at the beginning of the year, I read an article, I think it may have been on LifeHacker about the concept of a “zero state” inbox. Basically, keep your inbox empty, file all e-mails as soon as they appear and create tasks for anything you can’t do there and the.
Now I realise that this is the basic premis of Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen.
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I first read about this on JD’s Get Fit Slowly blog, I’m up for it !
The target is, after 6 weeks I should be able to do 100 push-ups.
First day is today!
Sarah and I managed to finish the 2008 Scottish Motor Neuron Disease Association (SMNDA) Fun Run 10k (6 mile) route in a respectable 1 hour 20 minutes.
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photo credit: Carmelo Aquilina
That is most definitely the furthest and fastest I have ever travelled by foot in the last decade !
OK, it was my slowest speed to date, but I’m not to concerned about speed just now.
My goal is to finish the 10K in 4 weeks time; gulp, I can’t believe it’s so soon !
If I could maintain my current 13minute mile I should come in under 1 hour 20 minutes, lets set that as a goal !
My daughter; Emma Goodman was on Real Radio last weekend.
I have uploaded an mp3 of her appearance here, beware it is currently 30Mb in size; I will shortly edit down a smaller version.
Sarah Goodman, my 13 year old daughter decided to join me on my run tonight.
She did great, she did’nt slow me down any. I am keeping track of my training in a Google spreadsheet here.
We are in training for our upcoming fundraising events.
See the widgets on the right if you would like to donate.
A while back my daughter; Emma Goodman, was interviewed by a researcher from The Press Association who was interested in her story.
She has just called to say that Emma will be featured in the Spring Special edition of the Pick Me Up magazine that goes on sale this Friday.
I have just picked up my copy: 14th march edition, page 27.
