Now that I am starting with my marathon training, I would need to sign up for the Sepilok V program. Just hope that they have slots for me for 2008.
Let's see.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Prep for the marathon
First webpage that I came about is these words:
Marathon is a commitment more than anything else. If you are planning for a wedding or taking up a new course, you might want to think twice about it. Time for training is crucial.
While researching for a training plan for my marathon, I found out at first I might not be able to do it. Most say you need to be running for a year CONSTANTLY, before you should consider running a marathon. But I came to this website where there I might just be able to make it for the marathon. Anyway, my occupational health nurse said that I am fit enough for the run and I should be doing better than other. I have a BP of 73/110 and a resting HR of 49. In the program stated, I would need to build up my mileage to be physically competent for training the marathon, which is 18-week long.
after much calculation, I would start my marathon training from 7 July to 4 November (the race day). Now that gives me now (Feb to July) to train for my mileage build-up schedule. It is again a 18-week long training. Just in time! Totally elated!
This evening, I have just busy keying in my MBU (Mileage Build-up) training log in my Google calendar. Basically it works like this: In Week 1, I need to accomplish 14 miles altogether, so it would be spread out in 4 alternate days of 4 miles, 3 miles, 4 miles and 3 miles. The training is progressive with less than 10% increment in distance each week until I hit around 35 miles a week.
Officially I would start 2nd week of February. But I think I better start training for the 3 miles itself!!! That's 6km!!
Wish me luck!
I hope I am ready for it. Now I need to look into running club in Reading to enrich my running. It can get quite boring running alone and also dangerous.
Marathon is a commitment more than anything else. If you are planning for a wedding or taking up a new course, you might want to think twice about it. Time for training is crucial.
While researching for a training plan for my marathon, I found out at first I might not be able to do it. Most say you need to be running for a year CONSTANTLY, before you should consider running a marathon. But I came to this website where there I might just be able to make it for the marathon. Anyway, my occupational health nurse said that I am fit enough for the run and I should be doing better than other. I have a BP of 73/110 and a resting HR of 49. In the program stated, I would need to build up my mileage to be physically competent for training the marathon, which is 18-week long.
after much calculation, I would start my marathon training from 7 July to 4 November (the race day). Now that gives me now (Feb to July) to train for my mileage build-up schedule. It is again a 18-week long training. Just in time! Totally elated!
This evening, I have just busy keying in my MBU (Mileage Build-up) training log in my Google calendar. Basically it works like this: In Week 1, I need to accomplish 14 miles altogether, so it would be spread out in 4 alternate days of 4 miles, 3 miles, 4 miles and 3 miles. The training is progressive with less than 10% increment in distance each week until I hit around 35 miles a week.
Officially I would start 2nd week of February. But I think I better start training for the 3 miles itself!!! That's 6km!!
Wish me luck!
I hope I am ready for it. Now I need to look into running club in Reading to enrich my running. It can get quite boring running alone and also dangerous.
Monday, January 22, 2007
A fortiori
Why I am doing this? (Mind me still under construction. I need some time to phrase it right for my future sponsor, yape u! Just some unpolished thoughts ... )
I am always trying to proof some thing, maybe it to my family, people that put me down, or just myself. I want them or myself to eat the words. I like to prove them wrong when they say I cant do it.
I think that's why I am going for the marathon. It is still unconceivable in my mind that I can do it. I want to do beyond where my comprehension is.
Orang utan conservation has always been at the back of my head, even since young. I just have this thing for apes. I can choose any movies or drama series for apes on national Geographic. yes even grey's anatomy!! I still need to find out why I like them so much. Maybe it is the biologist side of me, primate is the best experimental models! But it is so easy to have skrewd results, because like us, they are largely governed by their emotions that change with their environment. So scientists need to understand primates behavior before any testing can be performed. But remember I am under the conservation program, no matter what, to preserve the species from any activities, including scientific exploration.
I have been fighting these two school of thought nestled deep inside the philosophy of my life. The scientist side of me and the environmentalism side of me. It is because I understand the science, but massively lack of critical apprehension of nature of life. Maybe with my volunteering I can come to understand our ancestral being and see what it is like to be them.
A fortiori, to make a fruitful life out of what I have now.
I am always trying to proof some thing, maybe it to my family, people that put me down, or just myself. I want them or myself to eat the words. I like to prove them wrong when they say I cant do it.
I think that's why I am going for the marathon. It is still unconceivable in my mind that I can do it. I want to do beyond where my comprehension is.
Orang utan conservation has always been at the back of my head, even since young. I just have this thing for apes. I can choose any movies or drama series for apes on national Geographic. yes even grey's anatomy!! I still need to find out why I like them so much. Maybe it is the biologist side of me, primate is the best experimental models! But it is so easy to have skrewd results, because like us, they are largely governed by their emotions that change with their environment. So scientists need to understand primates behavior before any testing can be performed. But remember I am under the conservation program, no matter what, to preserve the species from any activities, including scientific exploration.
I have been fighting these two school of thought nestled deep inside the philosophy of my life. The scientist side of me and the environmentalism side of me. It is because I understand the science, but massively lack of critical apprehension of nature of life. Maybe with my volunteering I can come to understand our ancestral being and see what it is like to be them.
A fortiori, to make a fruitful life out of what I have now.
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