Less than twelve weeks to go until Huddersfield Hilly* Marathon. So I thought I would at least attempt a weekly round up of training/excuses here.
*It’s not officially called ‘Huddersfield Hilly Marathon’, I just thought I’d mention its hilliness (obviously the correct spelling – based on silly/silliness) in case I have previously failed to mention its hilly/challenging nature.
So…. crunch time! I’ve got to keep serious now…you know me…always serious…
Friday afternoon is also usually crunch time for me as it is when I am at my weakest, motivationally speaking. I need to see if I can avoid the temptation to sustain the last few hours of the week at work by munching at the various boxes of biscuits and chocs that do the rounds. Folks at work know I’m ‘in training’ so they don’t offer me stuff now…which is good….
…but away from their eyes I can be a secret eater. I’m not proud of it. I know I shouldn’t do it. But staying late to finish work an hour after everyone has gone, and knowing that I wasn’t gong to be eating until late this evening due to a tennis awards evening, the box of chocs were all mine.. 😦
Cross with myself for my secret eating, when I returned home from the tennis awards where, incidentally I ate reasonably well (apart from repeated trips to the crisp bowl) I then ate another big packet of crisps very unsecretively. CRUNCH TIME!
Take that secret eating! Ha. That showed you!
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Obviously this was all just a cunning plan to shame me into running extra hard to get that parkrun PB that I publicly proclaimed I would get last week…
I woke this morning (Saturday) and foolishly stood on the scales to assess the damage…
I was pleasantly surprised to see that I’d actually lost weight. Go figure. How does that work?
I was spurred on by the knowledge that if I run at the same effort as normal, my reduced weight should mean I’m faster, right?
That’s just what I did, and the results are demonstrated by the following graphic…
…by nearly thirty seconds too!
To complete a successful jantastic week, I just need to take it easy with a steady 15 mile run before breakfast tomorrow, now 
Congrats on the PB – awesome effort!
(And forgive yourself the secret eating – tomorrow is a new day!)
I live in Huddersfield and it should definitely have hilly added to its official name!! Good luck with your training! 🙂
Are you doing it too?
No im only just doing my first halfs this year so maybe next year. Ive seen the route tho and will be going to cheer people on!
Well done on the PB! Excellent work.
well done!!
A Pea Bee fueled by crisps and chocolate, fantastic!
I know!
The hard part is working out if it was ‘because of…’
or ‘in spite of…’.