Slowly but surely

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Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. Just thought I'd introduce the funny looking people above. The one on the bottom is my sister, Niccy and the one on the top is me. The other one on the top is Geoff. Whilst they're both 'training' in other parts of the land - Niccy lives in Turnpike Lane (sorry I mean Wood Green) and Geoff lives in Petersfield - we shall all be running together 'on the day'. Or at least at the start. I'm a great believer in finding your own pace and whilst it would be nice (if a little strange, let's be honest) to all hold hands crossing the finishing line there may well be quite a variance in the finishing times if I can get a bit statistical on you for a moment.

Anyhow should you want to sponsor either Niccy or Geoff you need to go to http://www.capital10k.co.uk/RunnerPage.aspx?BCID=1025504 (Niccy) or http://www.capital10k.co.uk/RunnerPage.aspx?BCID=1026137 (Geoff) but be patient as the websites are a bit erratic.

On the subject of cash, I'm doing very nicely with my £462.50 with a lot more promised. I'm not going to hassle people at the moment as there are about 14 weeks to go but I may be pointing people towards the third link down towards the end of May.

Now let's get up-to-date.

Monday was circuits day - very good little 'workout' in the gym at work involving all sorts of things like press ups, squat thrusts, ab crunches etc. Shoulders don't hurt like last week so fairly happy and it's not a 'run day' anyhow.

Went for a run on Tuesday, and improved my time to 14.22 which is 24 seconds better than last Friday and we're ignoring Sunday's freak result. That was an outlier which is another exciting statistical expression. Mmmm. Nothing much to report except random MP3 player, windy, few people about and running with a slight and intermittent stitch.

Wednesday - was going to play football at lunchtime but the auditors had other ideas.

Aiming to play football tonight and go for a run tomorrow

3 things to note:
1 - A couple of Queen tracks (We will rock you and can't remember the name of the other) have very solid beats which are excellent to run to. Also downloaded 'Eye of the tiger' - very naff and I'm obviously not going to run up steps quickly as I'll do my ankle in, not as young as I was etc. etc. but may be a good song to run to. Or may not. We'll see.

2 - I really, really, really didn't want to run on Tuesday. It was cold, I was knackered, didn't get home from in-laws until nearly 8 etc. but because of all the money raised (thanks to all) and this blog I HAD TO. That's why I'm doing the blog. It all makes sense now.

3 - Haven't restricted my eating/drinking yet or looked at running diets but I will do later. Any advice on this to john.lowit@gmail.com would be much appreciated as usual. Also need to look at training plans and decide when to increase the distance.

Not sure when the next update will be but I'll send out the usual email. Thanks to everyone for reading/sponsoring/reading and sponsoring.

Late note - apologies to Gary for implying that it was his Northern-ness that won the table football tournament. Utter rubbish. It was his keen eye combined with his quick hands/firm wrists combination. Glad that's sorted.