Fund Raising:
Started getting organised!! updated the just giving page with a photo, profile, goals and reason etc. Ordered 1500 business cards with challenge details on, including web addresses for challenge sites, blog address and just giving address. The business cards are going to be sent out to all customers of my website 7bags and my new brands website Roamlite, as well as to customers of Amazon and Ebay. I struck a deal with Lawrence and Stuart to take 50p from all max raked pots at the poker club as donations, this will be matched by the winner of the said pots to make it a £1 donation....great! it will add up i am sure.
Training Plan:
I have downloaded and printed off 4 training schedules for the marathon, most are 16 or 17 weeks so i have a way to go before starting any of these, they all say that I should be up to the 10km mark on a Sunday run to start with. I am very confused as to the type off training i should be undertaking. Some say that i should just build endurance by focusing only on one pace runs of varying lengths 4-5 times a week whilst others say i should incorporate shorter faster runs, hill training and interval training. These all help add strength, increase lactic threshold (?) endurance and basically i think just improve overall capability by getting the body used to a variety of feats. I will need to join a forum to ask a few questions about this.
Weight, Diet, Supplements:
I am currently about 103 kg, just over 16 stone. This is a heavy lump to carry 26.2 miles to say the least. I class myself as pretty fit, i don't quite know the correlation between weight and fitness apart from my Uncle was a short fat bloke who was ultra fit and played squash for a county, and I can currently run 6 miles! My goal with weight would be to get down to about 95kg over the 6 months and keep the muscle that lies somewhere underneath the layer of blubber.
Several small problems with losing weight being that food is my passion, my missus is the best cook in the world cooking Thai food daily, and i am ALWAYS hungry. I haven't worked out the amount of calories burnt that will go into 6 months of a zillion miles a week running but i think it would be impossible not to shed the odd pound. I think as far as alcohol is concerned, i love my beer and feel that after a long Sunday run i deserve a few Fosters in the evening with Kevin and a bit of Poker Stars! I may consider abstaining a couple of months before the marathon to "go the whole hog".
I still have a few tubs of whey protein, I will be making a shake at bedtimes, more to give me the essential amino acids drip fed throughout the night, to promote repair and a hopefully more settled nights sleep. I have bought some Valerian root tablets to also ensure a good sleep to be taken at bedtime and some glucosamine and chondrisomething for my poor knees that are getting bashed up from the million "103kg x gravity x downward force lbs per sq inch x something x something" steps whilst running for 6 months. I am scared of over training as I am moody at the best of times, and from experience of over training before doing weights, i become an aggressive wreck and have found it is a huge negative trigger for a downer with my bipolar disorder. Any overly moodiness will mean stopping immediately for increased recovery time etc.
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