I feel like a fat Rocky

Considering the title of this piece it would therefore mean that my daughter, Rosy, would have to be the character Mickey played by Burgess Meredith. Let me explain... being the school holidays I have been at home with Rosy doing various activities but yesterday we decided to go for a short bike ride as it was sunny. As it was only 5 miles it really wasn't too much of a big deal for this 2012 challenge but upon looking at the data I decided that it was more than likely possible for the next time we venture out that I run it while Rosy cycles. Upon waking up and seeing the sun shining I knew this was the day to trial it, I still need to run but they only need to be for about an hour as I'm tapering down in readyness for the London Marathon that "The Old Hand" and I are doing. Unfortunately Rosy didn't surface till about 11am, she must be tired, so after some lunch we headed out.

Now then, the fans of the Rocky films out there will understand this next bit. Whilst running through the country roads of Halstead with Rosy cycling alongside me I suddenly remembered the scene from Rocky where Sylvester Stalone was in training for the big fight and Burgess Meredith was cycling alongside him shouting various choice words of encouragement. Unfortunately for me though, there were plenty of times when I had to call Rosy back because I just couldn't keep up with her and that is where the title of this blog post comes from.

In all honesty this blog post is just a big excuse to see if I can embed a 3D 'fly-by' of our route. If it works it'll be below... if it doesn't... it won't be below, or anywhere else for that matter.

Lots of love

Wannabe

Gun-ho and kissing the guns!

Well Mr Wannabe you really have been pushing yourself and managed to do over 2012 press ups. I can not believe you have done over a thousand in the last 4 days. Super human effort. I suppose you are now going to attack the squat thrusts with the same vigour and gun-ho attitude? But please think about the marathon and training for that. It is not far away and if you want to get under your target time you need to get organised, motivated and structured with your running.

I promise this is the last time I'll mentioned this and maybe I'm banging on about this so much because I'm still not allowed to run and once again didn't get in to the London marathon. Anway another reason I will stop mentioning this lack of training is that the less training you and the old hand do the more you'll damage your bodies, therefore the longer to recover and more time out of action you'll have allowing me to catch up for lost time.

So carry on boys with your press-ups and squats! You'll be great at the marathon, no problem at all, your legs will be fine - the cheering crowd will get you around. Think positively the more time it takes you to complete it means more total time towards your 2012 minute goal!