Thursday 29 December 2011

Running away from 2011, 2012 targets

Not rode during the month of December, well not outdoors anyway, I have had s few short sessions on the turbo.  Instead I have been running for fitness kicks.  The new job only allows smaller windows of time for 'me time' (yes I know I'm lucky to get any) so running at the moment is a more time efficient way of getting and keeping fit.  My main objective over the winter is to keep losing weight and maintaining fitness so I can hit the ground running come spring time instead of the usual 2 months of regaining fitness, for now running suits this better.

My longest run to date is 6 miles, not bad considering I've only been at it for a few weeks, and I have never ran before.  I am aiming at increasing this to half marathon distance during 2012 and full marathon distance for 2013, yes, they are my running targets!

Planning for the bike next year I am aiming to finally crack the 5000 miles barrier as well as play my part in a world record relay attempt from John O'Groats to Lands End in August, my stint basically being a 45 mile time trial!

Other sporting plans for 2012 are to play some pool, well it cant all be physical can it ;) I've signed up to a local team (god help them) seriously though it's more asocial thing than competitive, although it would be nice to win a couple of my matches during the season.