Wednesday 26 September 2012

What challenges are next on my fitness regime

I have found myself pondering what to do next, how long to plan ahead and how long to train for.

I've already convinced Rob to join me on a 10km run to Cannon Hall Farm @cannonhallfarm on November 4th and we may be joined by my little sisters boyfriend Matty. This is a trial run I hope for another one in the spring, same distance and same run but I hope to get a few more involved. If I can I'd like to open the invitation to all mums and dads at Dexters school to join me and try and raise some money for the school. It would be nice to do something that my boys and their friends could benefit from, even if it is just inspiration.

I keep finding myself getting excited and worked up, even before anything has happend or even been organised.
Which is how I stumbled across the next event after the 2 10km runs. I was reading the Blog of a lady in America who has done similar stuff to me but is a few years ahead of me. She was invited to run in the Spartan Ultra beast run which is a marathon with obstacles along the way. I looked into it and watch a video of a similar race, and that was it I had to do 1 too, maybe not 26 miles but something shorter. So I looked for some here in the UK and found 1 that wasn't too far and wasn't run in the middle of winter. It's 10 miles and runs on April 20th 2013 in Harrogate, so sorry sis in gonna miss your birthday next year.

It's called the Yorkshire Warrior if you wanna check it out its website is www.yorkshirewarrior.com

It's a new race and is being built as we speak, I saw that you could follow them on twitter @yorkshirewarrio so I did (the missing r isn't a typo). I was their second follower it's that new and I now feel like I have to promote it like its my own account, so it gets more followers. The website has some great info and maps of the course, but it also has a fitness regime to help get you fit enough for the race. It gives you a weekly schedule to keep and the best thing is its not too tough. I've taken some screen shots so you can see for yourself that it can be done by novices like myself and advanced runners.

When I decide that I wanted to do this I put the feelers out on Facebook to see who was gonna do it with me. I actually got a couple of maybes and a FFS from Rob which I assume means your gonna kill me but ok. If it didn't then tough you know the rules Rob if its in the Blog you have to do it, no backing out.

The thing with all this excitement I hope it doesn't come crashing down on me when I realise what I've got myself into, but until then the training begins Monday. Good luck to myself and anyone else that joins me.

7 comments:

  1. Hi Matt, this is great and you certainly have plenty of time to train. Thanks for the info. I've also followed them on Twitter. I'd like to look into the Spartan Ultra as that is a bit closer to me! Good luck and looking forward to keeping updated on your progress.



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    1. Cheers Jay there are quite a few if you know where to look. Have fun with the ultra cos that's what it's all about really, making sure its fun will make it easier to do.

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  2. A brilliant idea Matt. I might even join you depending where we are at that time of year. Dad

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    1. Which one Dad the Yorkshire warrior or the 10km I don't think lord Coe thought he would inspire the older generation as much as he did. Your more than welcome on either, good luck on your golf tourney final this weekend

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  3. This sounds brilliant....hope to hear more about it at the weekend. x

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  4. I think you are well motivated and you can definitely do this. Just stay on your schedule and you will conquer. By the way, I hope you don't mind I linked to you on my blog at runningwithpoppachuck.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you I don't mind at all, I had quick look at your blog and I hope to be running as much as you at some point and hope to run as long as you have. Inspirational

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