I will be returning to the gym next week. I tried running a couple of days ago...oh boy! My focus will be to start weight training and core work with two outcomes in mind.
1. lose weight
2. improve my golf game.
My goals for improving my golf game are:
I am becoming a 10 or lower handicap golfer.
Not embarrassed of intimidated by anyone on my course.
I will practice with focus to develop a foundation of skills that I can draw upon, such that each shot becomes a natural extention of my athletic abilites..
My improvements start in play start today, I will reach this goal by July 1, 2011
Marker for achieving my goal will be three consecutive rounds played in the low 80's at trcc.
I continue to improve today.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Did it ... starting to working on it
Half marathon completed yesterday, ran the Great Bay Half Marathon 2011 in Newmarket NH. Got around the course in 2:15:29, averaging 10:29 a miles. It was a successful event in that I wsas able to run the entire distance. As I anticipated, I hit a wall and pushed through it at the 11.5 mile mark.
Taking pride in your accomplishments is vital to moving forward. It was great to accomplish something have never attempted before. I am not the fastest runner and had no dreams of a miraculous, kid from nowhere coming on to a first place finish. I finished and enjoyed the experience. I hope that along the I provided some comfort and support to those around me.
Smewhare about five miles out I find myself running next a lady, we had been close together for the past five minutes. Thirty or more runners pass us in that time, I ask her "do you thing anyone else is behind us?" She grins, shakes her head then picks up her pace leaving me behind. On I plod.
Coming to a hill, a big hill, a steep long hill with what appeared to be goats at the top hill. I swear I heard yodelling. I glanced to my left and spotted a woman bounding up the aforementioned hill. She looked like those astronauts skipping across the lunar surface as she floated past my lumbering.
I mentioned that "I wished I had lost those ten pounds I was planning to do last month."
She politely smiled, "There's always next year." she gleefully responded.
"I'll this day one."
As we crossed paths me heading north, them heading south I noticed a few runners looking like they were in distress, hell we had just run ten and a half miles we all were in disstress. "Hey! smile, remember you paid to do this!"
"Oh yeah this was a great way to spend my money wasn't it!"
"Can you believe I am doing this voluntarily?"
I spot someone walking, trying to regroup as they prepare for the final couple of miles "That's right! it's all about forward progress."
A limper, she has a blister and still two miles to go, "I wish I had your courage to continue!"
Oh oh! here's that wall they talk about. I'm not halfway through a full marathon and can only imagine if it's double, I'm not wanting any part of it. Mmmm, what to do. I distract myself cheering on those I am now passing as I head south, I know how much further they have to go to get here. I then spot him. I knew it would happen, and I still could not believe it. I pass a runner on his cell phone. I do a double take, and chuckle. Really, on the phone some two hours into a run?
Look the 12 mile mark, only one more to go. A cute coed is running with me, and we chat a little. "Inside a mile" reaffirming myself that I will finish. She informs me we are "seven tenths to the finish." I see she is wearing a gps on her wrist. Having driven the course the day before I share my limited course knowledge with her, afterall we are both runner, "We have one more steep hill, it's short but it is steep about a quater mile ahead."
"Oh, this is a hilly course, I wish I knew that before I started out." She falls back slowly, as if preparing herself for the impending final obstacle.
Up the hill I continue, to the flat part, before a final slow rise, then down a gentle slope to the finish line. About a hundred yards from the end a little boy extends his arm to high five the soon to finish runner. I am only happy to accept his congratulations. Then I spot my wife with her camera, a video tape of me running to the finish line. The two best sights all day!
Now to create a plan to lose weight and to stick to the plan. I will also be looking to improve my golf game, both through swing improvement lessons and learning to control the mental part of the game.
I am tired and still need to recoup so I can focus for more than ten minutes on any topic.
Taking pride in your accomplishments is vital to moving forward. It was great to accomplish something have never attempted before. I am not the fastest runner and had no dreams of a miraculous, kid from nowhere coming on to a first place finish. I finished and enjoyed the experience. I hope that along the I provided some comfort and support to those around me.
Smewhare about five miles out I find myself running next a lady, we had been close together for the past five minutes. Thirty or more runners pass us in that time, I ask her "do you thing anyone else is behind us?" She grins, shakes her head then picks up her pace leaving me behind. On I plod.
Coming to a hill, a big hill, a steep long hill with what appeared to be goats at the top hill. I swear I heard yodelling. I glanced to my left and spotted a woman bounding up the aforementioned hill. She looked like those astronauts skipping across the lunar surface as she floated past my lumbering.
I mentioned that "I wished I had lost those ten pounds I was planning to do last month."
She politely smiled, "There's always next year." she gleefully responded.
"I'll this day one."
As we crossed paths me heading north, them heading south I noticed a few runners looking like they were in distress, hell we had just run ten and a half miles we all were in disstress. "Hey! smile, remember you paid to do this!"
"Oh yeah this was a great way to spend my money wasn't it!"
"Can you believe I am doing this voluntarily?"
I spot someone walking, trying to regroup as they prepare for the final couple of miles "That's right! it's all about forward progress."
A limper, she has a blister and still two miles to go, "I wish I had your courage to continue!"
Oh oh! here's that wall they talk about. I'm not halfway through a full marathon and can only imagine if it's double, I'm not wanting any part of it. Mmmm, what to do. I distract myself cheering on those I am now passing as I head south, I know how much further they have to go to get here. I then spot him. I knew it would happen, and I still could not believe it. I pass a runner on his cell phone. I do a double take, and chuckle. Really, on the phone some two hours into a run?
Look the 12 mile mark, only one more to go. A cute coed is running with me, and we chat a little. "Inside a mile" reaffirming myself that I will finish. She informs me we are "seven tenths to the finish." I see she is wearing a gps on her wrist. Having driven the course the day before I share my limited course knowledge with her, afterall we are both runner, "We have one more steep hill, it's short but it is steep about a quater mile ahead."
"Oh, this is a hilly course, I wish I knew that before I started out." She falls back slowly, as if preparing herself for the impending final obstacle.
Up the hill I continue, to the flat part, before a final slow rise, then down a gentle slope to the finish line. About a hundred yards from the end a little boy extends his arm to high five the soon to finish runner. I am only happy to accept his congratulations. Then I spot my wife with her camera, a video tape of me running to the finish line. The two best sights all day!
Now to create a plan to lose weight and to stick to the plan. I will also be looking to improve my golf game, both through swing improvement lessons and learning to control the mental part of the game.
I am tired and still need to recoup so I can focus for more than ten minutes on any topic.
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