Week 1, Day 1....

Whilst on the treadmill today at my local gym, I began to think... Why the hell not?! You are a big enough mug to have signed yourself up to something this epic, why not actually document it. So this is where my story sort of begins.

Now I am one of those people who can, in fact is, very driven by their emotions, case in point is how I have ended up writing this blog. For a number of years I have watched the London Marathon with a tear in my eye, full of pride for those strangers on my TV running/walking/crawling those 26.2 miles, and every year I would always end up saying at the end of the BBC coverage ... I am signing myself up to that, next year I am doing it!! Now let me start by letting you know I am NOT in the slightest bit athletic! I am not being modest, I really have no level of fitness that should warrant bold statements of marathon running or even marathon completing! However despite this, for the last couple of years I have filled out that online application form to do it.

I have received at least 1 knock back and can't remember if I; 

1. did actually fill out applications forms previously or maybe it was just the once that I actually did it
or if 
2. I had every intention to do it but some gut instinct/self preservation inside me (aka the lazy cow from within!) just never did it, but my head logged the intention as an actual submission!

Anyway after having seen a few of my mates run it, actually being there with all the other 'spectators' lining the streets of London, having spent another 3 hours with my bestie Spoons after my mates had finished cheering on strangers and the stragglers at the end of the race, I just felt that I had to sign up again! 

So when the ballot opened however many days after the last London Marathon I entered. Paid my fee, donated it to charity so I could get my London Marathon lightweight jacket (in the past it made me feel like I actually had run it and was part of this elite club.... I know I am a twat!), I clicked send and the forgot all about it until September 27th when this arrived.....

I literally started laughing hysterically!! Happy because I got through but fucking petrified as its 26.2MILES and the furthest I had ever ran at one time was 3 miles for a Race for Life in Trent Park!. My sister Kell-belle response to me getting through was "congratulations!! You best start doing some road running!" my response "nah, I don't like road running!"........ oh dear!

So its now a month later and I am finally starting to 'train'.

This is how I have spent my last month of 'freedom'......

1. Buying new headphones as music is going to be key to getting me through
2. Downloading 'power music' to get me through.
3. Eating like a Russian weightlifter... seriously the amount of weight I have put on is obscene
4. Avoiding any form of exercise to the point of naivety that ...I'll be ok I'll start tomorrow!
5. Rejoined my gym. The most sensible thing I have done
6. Looking at marathon for beginners training plans. There is no beginners, beginners guide.....I checked.

So today I walked the 1k to my new refurbished gym, and managed to do the following...

5 mins on the step machine
25mins on the treadmill 

I then walked back home!. This is a start, granted a pretty poor start but a start no less! I genuinely thought I was going to go to the gym and 'smash' it, I was very, very wrong. What I am going to blame my poor performance on was getting a new tattoo! Now hear me out, its on my lower back and hurts, it really hurts! So full potential performance was definitely impeded, and I will hopefully be all healed up and ready to go full pelt in 7 days.

This is where the story comes full circle, and how this blog came to existence. My plan is to write something every day between now and race day, documenting it so when I look back I can see what a lunatic I was for signing up in the first place! So this is going to be self indulgent, rambling, and probably quite poorly written but it will be my honest thoughts and feelings and that's all I care about. 

So plans for tomorrow...

1. Up at 6am for early morning gym sess #yeahright!
2. Not be so paranoid about what the person next to me thinks about my i-pod music collection when it comes up on the screen of my treadmill!
3. slightly improve upon today's workout, nothing too epic just a bit better!


So this is Week 1, Day 1 over and out.

Miss Pulse