Last week I was quite despondent that I haven’t been able to do any running or circuit training at all due to my neuralgia & now chesty cough too.  I made a resolution to spend some time looking up what is involved in preparing for a marathon & have a look at what I need to do about food.

Most of the training plans that I have found are three month preparations for a marathon based on how long you expect to take, but I have no idea how long it will take me, so I’m going to start with the 5+ hours training plan and go from there.  I don’t see myself in any way ready to run a marathon in 3 months time, but at least if I start I will get fitter!!

On Sunday I found a group on WordPress ‘Janathon‘ for people who want to get fit and are making a commitment to doing some sort of exercise every day, and blogging every day about what we have or haven’t done.

So progress so far:

0 miles, 0 hours training, 1 dog walk 🙂

I have replaced my evening snacking on chocolates and biscuits with bowls of fruit.  The vitamin C can do me no harm considering how poor my immune system seems to be at the moment.

I have joined Janathon

I will be including walking Wilson in my training plans, as I do tend to walk fast when I am walking him, and throwing sticks & balls is light exercise too 🙂

I have started a food diary.  What I have gleaned from many of the different sites that I have looked at, is that a good nutritious food intake is key to improving my physical health, so I really need to have a good hard look at my eating patterns and find out what might be missing from my diet.  Being vegetarian, it can be easy to miss out on protein, but I am always very conscientious about this, and we do eat a lot of fish.

My target for next week:

Complete my ford diary every day

Try and at least go for a brisk walk every day, minimum 1 mile.

Blog my progress we very day under the title Janathon

See you next Wednesday – I do love this sofa!!!

If this was my sofa I probably would never get off it!