Late last year I was really into the XC mountain biking, and starting to become mildly athletic and maybe even the most skillful I’ve ever been at it. It was great fun, and I had a riding partner, Nick. Nick started riding a few years ago, and his consistent, regular, hard riding, now also with some (or a lot of) road riding, has earned in some pole positions in the Mens Elite category with the Adelaide Mountain Bike Club. It’s great to go riding with Nick because he makes me ride hard. Then at the start of 2010, I entered the Tour Down Under Challenge ride with him, and did a 160km ride. I don’t think I had ever ridden more than about 100km, so this was huge. Either had Nick really either (maybe a bit more than 100km, but not much). To make a long story short, Nick pulled me through almost the entire way – very grateful for his wind shielding! To make a long story short, I finished the ride, and I was now all round the fittest XC and road cyclist I’ve ever been.
After that ride, I felt like I’d done enough riding for a while, so I stopped. I joined an online gaming clan, and started playing computer games. Now six months later, I consider myself unfit. Due to a combination of seeing myself unfit, and seeing a photo of myself after finishing a Melbourne Marathon a few years ago, I decided it’s time to get back into marathon running. It won’t happen until well after the wedding, as I have a lot of work to do to get back into being fit, let alone running fit, or long distance running fit. My plan is to just do regular short runs (no more than 6km on weekdays, and no more than 12km on weekends) before the wedding, and ensure that I maintain good stretching sessions between runs, including some abdominal muscle work.
This plan will help to keep me fit for the wedding day, and ensure that I set my body up to be able to handle a more gruelling training program where this time I won’t cause any injuries. So I went for a 4km run today, and ouch my legs hurt!
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