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Hello there everyone, and welcome to my blog (hats off to 'Blogging for Dummies' for teaching this dummy how to....you know!).

I am overweight; make that very overweight. I think the technical term is 'morbidly obese'....ouch! Over the last few years I have had a few health warning shots, enough to make me realise that although there is nothing going on with my health that can't be reversed; my time is running out to do something about it before something really bad happens.

So this is my journey to health, and the plan is an ambitious one. I want to lose weight, and I want to get fitter; fit enough to run the Manchester 10k in May of 2012, fit enough to run a half marathon towards the end of 2012, and then fit enough to run the London Marathon in 2013, where the blogging journey will end at the finish line down the Mall.

I write this in the hope that the words and thoughts of both myself and readers can inspire me when the journey gets difficult, then hopefully people can be inspired by my story; believing that the most difficult journey is possible.

I make a promise to you that I will be honest - if the wheels fall off and I have six pizzas in two days, I will come clean - and I will do my very best. Share it with me.

......Wish me luck!!

Monday, 4 February 2013

...76 days to go.....

Is it me or is the countdown counting down ominously quickly??! It is almost impossible to imagine that in these sub-zero temperatures that in just over ten weeks thousands of people will be out in their skinny shorts, in the centre of London, about to run the races of their collective lives. Quite apart from wishing my life away, I am wishing my life goes veerrrrry vvveerrrrrrryyyyy slllloowwwwlly.

Busy day at work today and after yesterdays run I think it is more than acceptable to miss the Spartans beginners session tonight; I will however - promise! - be out with the gang tomorrow for interval training. Hopefully my knees will be in a much less creaky-weaky state by then.

So tonight is a night of Subway sandwich, and making use of the fact that I am in Room 14 of The Abbington Hotel - TV with in-built DVD player. I've treated myself to 'Taken 2'; a film of rare beauty, of rare emotion, of rare je ne sais quoi, and of very common Liam Neeson knocking seven bells out of people who wronged his family...........what, again??!! 

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