Week 5 complete!

Well I did my 2 mile run last night and it felt really good, even though the last half a mile felt really tough. It was really cold, literally freezing! and my legs began to ache towards the end. But that is best part of it when your body is finding it tough but you`re still pushing yourself.
I`ve completed week 5 of the 'c25k' plan, though I`ve tweaked it a little doing my runs every other day instead of 3 times a week. I will do this until my body tells me otherwise. So week 6 starts tomorrow and were now up to 2.25 miles and I`m feeling good for this training.
One thing that I do need to do is get back to getting to bed before midnight, I used to go bed about 11 and read a little. I think I`ll try and do my run at about 8 tomorrow morning, that may help. Week 6 of the 'c25k' is as follows -
Week 6
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then: - Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes) - Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes) - Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes) - Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes) - Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Rest day.
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then: - Jog 1 mile (or 10 minutes) - Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes) - Jog 1 mile (or 10 minutes)
Rest day.
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 2-1/4 miles (or 23 minutes) with no walking.
Rest day.
Rest day
I also need to tidy up indoors, both upstairs and downstairs.
Last night our team had a pool match which we drew 5-5, the match was played in a good spirit nad was very enjoyable. We led 5-3 but couldn`t close the deal. I lost one of the last 2 games myself(though I did win my other game).

Ive just found this and needed to share it with you all -http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/index.html

Its the krispykremechallenge. Runners have to do a 2 mile run, eat twelve krisrpy kreme donuts and then run 2 miles back, fantastic, I love dounts!

Failure!!

The plan was to get up at 6-30 and do a 2 mile run, I knew late last night that I wasn`t going to make it. So at 7-30 tonight after I have seen my kids I will do my 2 mile run, definately!
I played a pool match last night in the last 16 of the doubles competition, we won 2-0 and it was fairly comfortable. My partner is a very good player which is a bonus, we are in the quarter finals now so the pressure is mounting.
I received a tip to back a darts player called Darryl Gurney in the first roung at odds of around 6/4, he won by 3 sets to 1 and I made a tidy profit.
Ive just been relaxing at work with the music channel on the tv when this Alecia Dixon video came on -http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg8yqQwiCNQ I was in heaven, the girl is seriously beautiful. But then the cleaner came over and wanted a conversation, by the time we`d finished talking the video was we`ll and truly over.
While I`m thinking about it I quite fancy watching this film - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q Slumdog millionaire is a film about an 18 year old indian guy who wins the Indian version of who wants to be a millionaire and is getting great reviews, all I need is an attractive partner in crime.

Brilliant taylor

I completed leg 2 of the c2sk last night and again I felt fairly comfortable. Hopefully I will complete leg 3 at 6-30 tomorrow morning. I watched the final of darts last night in Balckheath with my some of my workmates and had a pretty goodnight. Phil Taylor was superb in beating Raymond Barneveld by 7 sets to 1.

Leg 2 tonight

I`m going to do leg 2 of week 5 of the c25k tonight. -
(Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)Walk 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes) ).
I`m hopeful that I should do this fairly comfortably, then Im meeting up with some of my workmates to watch the final of the pdc world darts championship between Phil Taylor and Raymond Barneveld. Taylor is the favourite but I`ve got a sneeky feeling that Barneveld may sneak it.
The boys stayed over last night and we watched 'Back to the future 3' together which they enjoyed. Its gonna be a quiet afternoon with them over my mums today.

Leg 1 completed.

I did my run run last night as I said I would and it felt fairly easy apart from the last half mile. I intend to do leg 2 of week 5 (c25k) on sunday night. I went ceroc last night and it was ok but I feel that Ive done my time dancing wise, I`m not really enjoying it like I used to so it could be time to try something different.

Happy new year.

I went to the ceroc new years eve party on wednesday night and had a really good time. I wasn`t really sure what to expect and even considered not going but luckily there were plenty of people that I knew there. I danced constantly and even ended up doing the conga at the end. One of the barmaids looked like Anastacia(well a little bit anyway) and I have to admit that I quite fancied her, but this time I didn`t do anything about it.

Im going to start the c25k training plan this week, which is designed to get anybody running a 5k within a nine week period. http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml Im fairly fit already so I`m going to enter at week 5 of 9.

5

workout 1
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

workout 2
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)
Walk 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)

Workout 3
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog two miles (or 20 minutes) with no walking

The plan is to do workout 1 straight after work tonight. Lets see how it goes -

2009 is going to be great!!

I`m determined that this coming year will be a great year, as always its up to me to make sure of that. These are my goals for this coming year in no particular order.

1. To maintain and improve my running - I have spells where I go running regularly, I hadnt done a run for months but have done two 1 mile runs in the last five days and it felt quite easy, I think this is mainly down to the dance classes. I`ve thought about joining a running club (there is one in Beckenham which meets up on a wednesday) for quite a while but mainly because of my introvertedness and shyness I haven`t found the bottle up to go. I also want to run a 10k race or even a half marathon, I think this would be good for me.
2. To date more - I meet a lot of girls which I like and seem to like me and because of bad experiences I`ve had I look for reasons not to go out with. Dating is fun, much more exciting than a relationship and I need to get back on the wheel.
3. To be more social - I`m not a good mingler, it just dosen`t come naturally to me. I need to be a bit more bolder and go up to people and start more conversations, they won`t always be friendly back but that life. I need to be more chatty in pubs and at ceroc.
4. to keep trying to improve my golf - I`m not a great golfer but I could be much better. My swing needs working on and I sometimes get a little down with myself when I seem to be getting nowhere but I have to persevere. I still haven`t broken 45 around magpie but that is easily attainable this year.
5. To go to at least 2 new countries this year - Last year my holidays consisted of 2 weeks in Greece. It was a chill but it wasn`t me, it was a place for clubbers and I felt about 15 years too old. This year I`d like to go somewhere which would excite me a bit more. We will see.
6. To make better use of my freetime - I do keep myself busy but I still waste a lot of my sparetime. The house could be tidier, I could be fitter and I could go out more than I already do. But nobody is perfect!

7. To maintain my blog - My blog is one of ways that helps to give my life a direction and help me do the things that I really should be doing to be totally happy.

8. To be a better dad - I think I`m a good dad but I could be better. I spend a fair amount of time with my boys and try to make them happy. Sometimes work and other things get in the way and I can be a bit grumpy when I`m tired.

9. To smile more - you can never smile enough, thats for sure. I need to smile more and I do smile a lot more than I used to.