Hello Everyone:
My first post on the forums although I must admit I found the site some time ago and have used the posts for advice, reviews and looking at people's general opinions before. I sometimes feel I can contribute some experience, but until now have been too lazy to get registered!!
I'm far from a new runner, in fact I first started running reasonably seriously back in 1985 or 86, initially as some training for squash and BMX racing. The running took over and over about 3 years I competed in road races in the North West: my best performance being a 1.28 half marathon. Since then I have always done some level of running and / or cycling either just for pleasure or as training for other sports.
Two years ago I decided to take running a little more seriously again to boost my fitness for rugby (league) coaching, and again the running bug has bitten. Over the past two years I've done at least a dozen races between 5K and half marathon (the majority being trail or mixed terrain races including two of last year's lakeland trails series: Hawkshead & Garburn).
I love running. Both training and racing. My main goals for the next few years are to lose some weight, improve my pace and finally complete a marathon (which I've been promising myself I'll do for over 20 years now!). However this may be something of an uphill battle as I'm a husband and father to an 11 and 3 year-old, I run the family engineering business and coach an under 11's rugby league team playing competitive fixtures in the North-West Counties League. As you can imagine, training schedules are never set in stone.....
Anyhow, that's more than enough about me.
My first post on the forums although I must admit I found the site some time ago and have used the posts for advice, reviews and looking at people's general opinions before. I sometimes feel I can contribute some experience, but until now have been too lazy to get registered!!
I'm far from a new runner, in fact I first started running reasonably seriously back in 1985 or 86, initially as some training for squash and BMX racing. The running took over and over about 3 years I competed in road races in the North West: my best performance being a 1.28 half marathon. Since then I have always done some level of running and / or cycling either just for pleasure or as training for other sports.
Two years ago I decided to take running a little more seriously again to boost my fitness for rugby (league) coaching, and again the running bug has bitten. Over the past two years I've done at least a dozen races between 5K and half marathon (the majority being trail or mixed terrain races including two of last year's lakeland trails series: Hawkshead & Garburn).
I love running. Both training and racing. My main goals for the next few years are to lose some weight, improve my pace and finally complete a marathon (which I've been promising myself I'll do for over 20 years now!). However this may be something of an uphill battle as I'm a husband and father to an 11 and 3 year-old, I run the family engineering business and coach an under 11's rugby league team playing competitive fixtures in the North-West Counties League. As you can imagine, training schedules are never set in stone.....
Anyhow, that's more than enough about me.