Start again

I have been keeping a blog for a year or so now at dw-race.blogspot.com

In September 2008 I declared to the world that I was going to take part in the '10 Devises to Westminster kayak race and the blog was going to be my motivation to keep up with the training. I knew if I didn’t keep a log of what I was doing I would quickly get bored and stop the training and I felt that at 30 I should really start taking a bit more care of my body.

For about a month I struggled with an increased fitness regime, with a new pain every day but I did get fitter and I began to enjoy what I was doing. I began to look around for other events as way of training for the DW and accidently signed up for a half marathon, and then another, and then a swimming race and very quickly I had hijacked my own Devises to Westminster blog with talk about running events, and cycling and more recently, games of squash.

Then in October 2009 I realised that I was not going to be ready for the DW race. I had spent too little time training in a kayak having focusing my energies on distance running instead.

This change of direction hasn’t really bothered me. I am still getting out there getting fit, and I am still taking part in events that I never thought I would a few years ago. I even still have plans on taking on the DW race, my aim is for next year for that one instead.

I have a lot of people who arrive at my blog expecting to find useful information about the DW race though, having given the blog a name with DW-Race in the title would do that I guess, and this blogging malarkey for me is no longer just about that kayak race, it is more about me and my attempts to beat back middle age spread.

So from now on I will be blogging about my exploits, predominantly about exercise and races and sports, occasionally about injuries, and sometimes I might talk about other things that are bothering me, here in a new blog that isn’t so specifically titled as my old blog.