01-08-2014, 12:57 PM
Hi Ed it's been a longtime. Nearly 18 months in fact. I am now living in Abu Dhabi and have decided to get back into running. In a former life I was playing semi pro football for about 18 years. After the arrival of little people I took a step back but decided to start running to keep myself going. For a few years between the ages of 12 and 15 I had been doing athletics and cross country representing the county but falling a long way short at national level after that it was just running for football fitness. Anyway I took up the 10k programs around about May 2012 and stuck with it until about feb 13, around the time I moved to AD. I managed a pb of 37:58 in nov 12. In AD I decided that I missed football to much and started playing socially and doing a couple of bootcamps a week. Anyway invariably when you do something new, all beit something you spent your whole life doing its advisable to ease in slowly, which I didn't. This led to tendinitis in my left Achilles, which I tried to run off. Anyway long story short my running and nearly everything else went on hold for the rest of 2013. I started swimming and entered a few triathlon team events. My only running this year has been a 10k in April after a mile swim then an hour an a half break (the cycle leg), I was part of a team but the runner backed out. I ran 44:13 after having done no running in 9 months. Then in May I ran an aquathon of 750m swim and 5k run. The run was done in 21:53. My current running has been 1 or 2 times a week. I am aiming to do my first triathlon this year in October. That is my first goal and I would like to get my 5k under 20 minutes. I did a 1600m tt yesterday on the treadmill and got 5:50. I would like to run 3 times a week. I afraid that the intervals will have to be on a treadmill as it's just to hot at the moment. I also shift work so my schedule can change but I am thinking Wednesday/Friday/Sundays for the runs.