It's Official
Ironman
I've sent the email in making the withdrawal official. I'll be back next year though :o). Just need to decide whether to cancel the hotel or to go out and support. In some ways that might get me down, but in another it'll be fun. Just might feel like a bit of an outsider though :o(
Plus of course there's the cost issue - flights plus youth hostel will probably come to about £400 (plus more for meals out etc), and bearing in mind the news below, I could do without that.
Computer
Crashed the other night, and now although I can get online, it won't load web pages and I can't use MSN, although I can do the former of those by logging in to work. Skype works too. Odd! I suspect it's a fairly easy fix too, but havign said that, I've been tinkering for two days with no luck! I've been thinking of a new pooter for a while anyhow, so m aybe I'll make now the time :o)
Study
I'm getting more and more tempted by the A level - somewhere! While the objection to doing it at my old work holds (five days a week for small chunks!), it would give me a better start to the physio degree and look better to St George's and other unis. They might think the access course was a bit of a cop out.
Floodlight suggests a couple of courses in human bio at Croydon, although I can't find them on the website - I'll give them a call later.
Training
Did a six miler the other day - seemed good - 8:40 pace. Some slight twinges the next day, but they could have been due to Pilates. It was a comfortable run as far as my legs were concerned - only the hills revealed any twinges, and FLM is flat.
M has suggested a strategy which I love the sound of - at least as a starting point. Run to the one mile marker, then walk until elevent minutes (my target pace per mile) is up. Then run to the next mile marker (hopefully about 0.88 of a mile), then walk to 22 mins, and so on. If I can stick to that it'll bring me home in something like 4:45, which leaves plenty of room for slowing down!! The only slight problem is that that still leaves 20 odd miles to run, and I'm sure my pace will slow! STill - if it can get me to 16 before I have to walk all the time, I'll be pleased. This is going to be about completion, not about speed - although sub 5 would be a nice bonus!
I've sent the email in making the withdrawal official. I'll be back next year though :o). Just need to decide whether to cancel the hotel or to go out and support. In some ways that might get me down, but in another it'll be fun. Just might feel like a bit of an outsider though :o(
Plus of course there's the cost issue - flights plus youth hostel will probably come to about £400 (plus more for meals out etc), and bearing in mind the news below, I could do without that.
Computer
Crashed the other night, and now although I can get online, it won't load web pages and I can't use MSN, although I can do the former of those by logging in to work. Skype works too. Odd! I suspect it's a fairly easy fix too, but havign said that, I've been tinkering for two days with no luck! I've been thinking of a new pooter for a while anyhow, so m aybe I'll make now the time :o)
Study
I'm getting more and more tempted by the A level - somewhere! While the objection to doing it at my old work holds (five days a week for small chunks!), it would give me a better start to the physio degree and look better to St George's and other unis. They might think the access course was a bit of a cop out.
Floodlight suggests a couple of courses in human bio at Croydon, although I can't find them on the website - I'll give them a call later.
Training
Did a six miler the other day - seemed good - 8:40 pace. Some slight twinges the next day, but they could have been due to Pilates. It was a comfortable run as far as my legs were concerned - only the hills revealed any twinges, and FLM is flat.
M has suggested a strategy which I love the sound of - at least as a starting point. Run to the one mile marker, then walk until elevent minutes (my target pace per mile) is up. Then run to the next mile marker (hopefully about 0.88 of a mile), then walk to 22 mins, and so on. If I can stick to that it'll bring me home in something like 4:45, which leaves plenty of room for slowing down!! The only slight problem is that that still leaves 20 odd miles to run, and I'm sure my pace will slow! STill - if it can get me to 16 before I have to walk all the time, I'll be pleased. This is going to be about completion, not about speed - although sub 5 would be a nice bonus!
posted by XFR Bear @ 9:32 am
4 Comments:
great FLM plan! You so know you will do it and in a FAB time!
You're havign a laugh aren't you Pix?
Okay - it's not a bad way to make the best of a bad job, but there's no way I'll do what for me would be a fab time.
I'll be chuffed to finished - time is very much secondary.
And unlike the first time I did FLM I can't even spur myself on with thoughts that "at least I'll be able to say I've done a mara" or "at least I won't ever have to do another one"!!
I talked to M about that strategy at Windsor last year - I think it was Trinity who suggested it?
and it is my plan for FLM too - but at a somewhat slower pace per mile!
Beary, I'm still happy to try and keep up with you. Sub-5 would see me smiling this year!
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