My First Blog...a bit about me and why you should follow me!

After hours of reading my good friend's Daz Does Tri blog (well worth a read BTW - google it now!) I have finally decided to start my own!

Not much to say for now other than this blog will chart my attempts to relive the glory days of running and the fun that me and my training buddies will undoubtedly have along the way. Plus of course it will mention bits about other important areas of my life (family, non-running friends etc.).

The great thing about running is that it is easy to fit into your life and you have lots of different distances to choose from to satisfy your desire for PB's, improved age-grading (trust me young un's, it does come to that as you get older!) and over the course of the next few month's I will be attempting to run some all-time PB's over 5 miles, 10K, half-marathon and marathon.

Will I achieve my goals? Will I re-live the glory days? Can I prove that through smarter training you can be a better athlete in your late 30's than you were in your late 20's? Can I prove that you can avoid injury if you plan your training, recovery and diet properly Only time will tell and I will chart my progress here BUT a few things I do know for sure now are:

1. I believe I can do it and belief is at least 75% of the challenge.

2. Being only 4 seconds off an all-time PB over half-marathon this year shows that I am not a million miles off getting back to my best.

3. I have had my most consistent 18 months of training and racing ever since early 2011 and have not had one injury that has stopped me running in that time (anyone that knows me from my old running days will not believe that is possible!)

4. I have some great people to train with (Daz Man, Ian T, Daniel Son, Ed, Alex, Stevie B, John Uff, Kye and more) and between us we will push one another over the coming months and share in the highs of our sport.

5. I will never stop believing as I don't do negativity!

Anyway that's the first blog done and it feels good and fun to put down in words a bit about the goals for the coming winter season. I hope you enjoy my honesty and take something from my positivity and my 27 years experience of competitive running.

Enjoy the ride and please shout if you ever want any help or advice with your training or a pep talk to get you feeling positive after a rough time with training or racing! However bad you think things are there is always a positive take on your training - trust me I should know as I have experienced every high and low there is in 27 years!