Typecast

So, back at the beginning of lockdown, I embarked on a fresh "couch to 5k" journey. I was running solo and wasn't all that keen so I tried to take the dog along and he hated it just as much as me, refusing point blank to run by week 3. I had a little moan about it and a few running friends said they felt the same - they wanted to kick-start their running again, missed group running and needed a way to 'buddy up' with someone. And so the "LOCKDOWN C25K" group was born. It was a small, but perfectly formed, group which was for those few running friends who needed an excuse to get out and wanted to be accountable for their runs, in a similar way to the structure of our community C25K group in Blackburn but away from their main Facebook timeline. This, however, wasn’t about being a brand new runner, or running in groups, or to have everyone running on the same day at the same time but about having a place to say “I DID IT” and know that if you couldn't b...

You know that saying : "I wish I was as fat as I was when I thought I was fat"? It keeps coming back to haunt me. I thought long and hard about posting this side-by-side picture but I want to be accountable and I need a goal. [L] yesterday [R] May 2018 A couple of years ago I lost 2.5 stone (32lb - the picture on the right) and knew I still needed to lose more but I was starting to enjoy the results I was seeing; clothes were fitting better and my running was improving. Fast forward to the end of 2019 and I got a bit sloppy with the food and alcohol consumption and a few pounds crept back on. Not a problem - I could tackle that after Christmas and New Year plus I had a holiday to look forward to. Enter, stage right, Coronavirus and national lockdown, where I consoled myself with more food and alcohol, had an excuse not to go running and spent every day without a routine whilst furloughed from work. Oh, and I now had no holiday to look forward to.  But this picture on the left...