'How best can I quit?' 'I know I'll take up running!'
Absolute genius on my part.
After a few minutes daydreaming of myself atop a podium receiving my first Olympic Gold the realities of such a plan begin to materialize.
i) I ran the 1500m once when i was in school (ages ago now)
ii) I don't own a pair of runners
iii) I don't know anybody that runs (and my wife is completely against the idea)
iv) How will 15+ years of skateboarding have effected my joints
To be honest the list went on and on and I quickly began to talk myself out of the idea.
But I eventually managed to muster the motivation (having found a pair of nike runners at the bottom of my insanely huge sneaker collection- that however, is a story for a different time) and went for a run around the streets. It is here that i encountered the biggest barrier to that Olympic gold; road running is immensely boring!!!!!
Because of this, well, it is the reason I am sticking too, I was unable to complete a mile without stopping and ended up back in the house dejected and in severe need of a nicotine boost. The internet then granted me a most welcome gift, trail running! Surely this is the answer to the boredom of road running.
To be honest, looking back on that time now, I find it hard to understand how I didn't stumble into trail running accidentally as I live 5 minutes walk from the coast!
Genius!!!
On the 28th October 2013 I managed 7.2km in time of 47:56.
I was rather pleased, and my enthusiasm for running grew.
So fast forward 2 months and 168km later and what you get is something that does not smoke anymore and can loosely be described as a trail runner. No Olympic golds yet though, unfortunately.
I took some photos from my regular 5km route last week.
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| The cannon at the top of Trow Rock |
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| The way forward |
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| Looking forward at frenchmans bay |
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| Looking back at Frenchmans |
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| Trail down into Marsden Bay |
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| Marsden Bay |
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| And the route back up onto the Leas |
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