So Dad is living back in Townsville after being in Fiji for 4 years. For those that don't know, Dad is a runner and has been since an early age.
I have been getting back into fitness training over the last couple of months, but now with Dad back around, I am finding myself being dragged into longer and faster runs (not too fast of course, endurance training really!).
Currently I am at a point where I can jog/run for about 10Km before I am feeling smashed, but this 10Km is a recent achievement and I hope to keep improving on that.
I have done much reading online in regards to motivating yourself to train harder, and many people who are making progress highly recommend blogging their training and accomplishments so far. The idea is that people (hopefully) reading the blog will be keen to see the bloggers progress, and hopefully serve the blogger an ass-kicking if he/she starts to slack off. I am keen to see how that goes!
There are a couple of races coming up that pose quite a challenge to a person at my current level: a 16Km run in Cairns and a 28Km run in Whitsunday’s are both only a few months from now. Both have considerable amounts of uphill terrain (as far as I can tell) and pose quite a challenge to someone at my current fitness level.
Will keep updating,
-Brad
