Comments on: Hampton Court 10k

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:03:25 +0000

Hey Katie – thanks for the comment :) And yep, I know the ’shit mother-fucker’ pain very well!

Congrats on running your first half – I’d like to do one next year if I survive my next 10k with a positive frame of mind ;)

By: Katie Mae

Katie Mae — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:36:18 +0000

Good on ya! I am a (former) fat runner, and I love what you are doing. The first time I flung my fat ass around the track was August, 2007. It was awful. I was like you. Tore up, from the floor up. That will fade. The body will become fit from the inside-out. Keep at it, work though the pain.

And about the pain: there are two kinds of pain. One is the pain that tells your body you are injured. The "shit mother-fucker" pain. (sorry about the language, but you get it, right?) And the other is the body being torn down and rebuilt. Think the demolition of an old building, and the building of a state-of-the-art one in its place. this pain is good. Welcome it. Pain is a tribute to the work you out into your body. Love it. Worship it.

One day I got on the track and BAM! I was a gazelle. Just like that. That was the day I became a runner. I have been seriously training for 3 months now and finished my first 1/2 marathon last month. Find your gazelle. Get your wife out there too.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:12:36 +0000

Race number 1 – does that mean you get Des Lynham talking about your race on TV?

Wot no XXXL T shirts – thats not equality & fairness…

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:14:42 +0000

Well they (the infinite ‘they’) say there’s no shame in coming last, so it must be irony. Shameful, shameful irony.

By: jogblog

jogblog — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:48:46 +0000

Oh don’t remind me, I’m still getting over the shock of having just received a race number of 1 when I’m probably guaranteed to come in last. Is it shame or irony that I’m feeling?