The Year of the running

I think on my last post I was getting a bit carried away. And after a bit of email ping pong with Olly, I have a new training plan in place for this year. This year will all be about running, so I need to focus, focus, focus and not get carried away with other events, which I'd really like to do... but No, will focus.

So Kepler is still going to the main focus for this year. As well as the Sydney half marathon. Still going to do the Tour de Tasman, but it will not be a primary focus. So bike and Kayak, will be on "maintenance" for most of the year, with a bit of specificity a few weeks out from Brunner and Tour de Tasman.

Coast to Coast is not on the plan for this year, firstly because, I'd actually like to be able to save some money this year, or even buy a new house (Focusing on running helps this also, because of the 3 disciplines, it is surely the cheapest). Secondly, so I just focus on the running. I'm putting Coast to Coast as a long term 2 year goal, wouldn't mind to be able to get up on the stage at prize giving, but I know to do that, I will have to improve the running, ten fold. I know my body is not equipped to deal with it at this moment, but I also realise that the thing that will hold my body back from being able to achieve this is my mind. I am not genetically gifted, but then I haven't been given genes that would prevent me, so as long as the mind is willing...

So what have I been doing? The last couple of weeks, I have slowly been getting back into doing some training. The weather hasn't been cooperating, and I still am not in the right frame of mind to train what ever the weather. Just been for a 10K jog around the plantation, it wasn't exactly easy, but it also wasn't that hard.

Whats next? Well I have entered Around Brunner, and we have sponsorship this year. There's going to be a team of us, called oursleves the HPA (High Perfomancce Athletes). Think we have Tanya to thank for that name. Then there's the Mount Isobel challenge, in April, 8K run climbing 1000m, then a mountain bike, Kelly's going to do the MTB. Then Christchurch Half Marathon.