WELCOME

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!!

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Smuggerson Speaking.....(32 days)

I really should know better than to shoot my mouth off about how easy it is to run five miles the night before......running five miles...... It is the perfect opportunity for the little imp of destiny (second cousin to the Easter Bunny) to say 'nya ha haaaaa, I'll show him' and give me cramp, trip me up, rain on me, or all of the above.

Must have been his day off though, as it went extraordinarily well. It is such a contrast from when I first did that run (commonly called hotel-work-hotel; don't know why I am telling you as you will never work it out it's such an ingenious, uncrackable code). I would be exhausted by the time I reached the office and turned for home/hotel (ooops, that's given the game away), making the return feel desperately long. Now the half way point comes as a surprise and......voice hushes to a whisper.....I am actually a bit sad when I get to the finish as I was actually enjoying (ah-say ah-say ah-say enjoying!) it so much!!

This really isn't me; and if in actual fact it IS me, then who am I and what have I done with the REAL Adrian Blaydon??! I fully expect a ransom note in the post shortly; don't think I'll pay it though, really not keen on having him back.

So it is time to peel off the figure hugging, second skin, wearing this to keep warm and fully aware that compression tops and bottoms are more Yucci that Gucci, gear (I may be fitter but I still look a bit of a plonkity plonka in the woolly hat; NO amount of the new me is going to make that outfit work) and jump......don't want to take any risks.....step gently into the shower.

That paragraph jumped about a bit; if you understand it could you explain it to me, the grammar checker has gone berserk on it.

Anyway, more of my Phil Schofields of life tomorrow!

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