In Which I Admit Where I Went Wrong And Aim To Go Right
2017: Quick review
In February I ran Mad Dog 10k again (Fifth year in a row) and I also ran the Yorkshire Marathon (October time) for the fifth year in a row. I got a Mad Dog PB but only got my third best time in York.
I ran the Scottish 10k, Blackpool 10k and York 10k races for the first time and enjoyed them all (Even though I don’t enjoy Blackpool!)
I ran Edinburgh marathon and got seriously sunburnt.
I’ve done rubbish at blogging this year.
We decided to move up to Edinburgh in Scotland in the summer and since then I’ve not got myself into the routine of running. When we were in England I worked around 2.5miles away so would run home from work most days.
My new job is 11miles from home and so it’s too far to run home after work. (I’ve done it once so far.) Plus I now do a mixture of days and nights, all 12hr shifts so it can be difficult to get motivated when you’ve been on the go all day.
I only managed just over 350miles in 2017.
And so! I need a plan. A new plan. A good plan. An easy to stick to plan.
The plan is this: Do better.
It’s a good plan.
2018: Looking forward
January: Edinburgh Winter 5k, February: Mad Dog 10k, May: Edinburgh Marathon, October: York Marathon. (Others as I find them.)
I’ve decided to be healthy for the whole of January which includes NO alcohol, NO junk food and NO fizzy drinks. Limiting my coffee intake and eating healthy meals. I’m coping so far, but it is only January 2nd… Not long left though!
Every day off in January will be a running day, even if it’s only a short distance. No more of this “ahhh I deserve a full day of laziness” because I end up saying that on EVERY day off and that’s VERY lazy.
This year I’ll get a new 10k PB (currently 47:56) and a new Marathon PB (3:59:15.) I’ll blog more and take more pictures. I’ll be posting more about healthy eating and probably a few recipes here and there so I have more to blog about.
But mainly it’s so I can take more post-race-beer-pics
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Marc Hemingway 
Yay for the beer pics after races- I can’t drink most beers… so I have wine or champagne after my races. Hoping to have a few more and a few better numbers this year as well! Best of lucj
You have a magnificent plan! Working 12 hrs is difficult for running. I would do very little on my 12 hour days, but those glorious days off when the rest of the world was toiling away were wonderful!
Sounds like you’ve got a plan:)