My First Flora London Marathon. by Live_Your_Dream_Life_Today

Hi,

I'm Damian and my goal is simple

TO RUN THE FLORA LONDON MARATHON FOR THE FIRST TIME!

I used to live in London and once a year used to cheer the runners on from my garden. From then I've always thought about doing the London Marathon. I'll think no more - I'll do it!

But here I am again. Setting sport goals, and probably failing to reach them.

I’ve never been a sporty person until about three years ago I started running. After about 18 months I did my first (and so far only) half marathon (the Great North Run 2006, UK), and then stopped running.

Last year, 2008, I ran for a couple of months, after sitting on the couch and watching the London Marathon on TV. I had applied to run it but never got through the ballot. After watching the race, I applied for and got a place on the Snowdonia Marathon October 2008 and started training. I looked forward to this being my first ever marathon. However, after getting my training runs up to half marathon distance, the pressures of life squeezed out my running and Snowdonia came and went, getting added to the list of races that I’d love to do, but somehow don’t think I’ll ever get to do them.

Here is my wish list of races to do. Hold onto your hats there are some beauts in here.

RUNNING

• The London Marathon
• The Hinckley Half Marathon
• The Langdale Marathon
• The Hawkshead Puma 15k
• The NY Marathon
• The Paris Marathon
• The Great North Run

ULTRA RUNNING

• The Marathon Des Sables
• Badwater Ultra Marathon
• London To Brighton Ultra Run
• The Doyen of The Downs  (6th December 2009)
• The Spartahalon
• Comrades - South African Ultra Run
• Run from Lands End to John O’Groats

SWIMMING

• The Great North Swim 
• Swim the English Channel

TRIATHLON

• The Hawaii Iron Man Triathlon
• The Lanzarotti Iron Man Triathlon
• The Scandinavian "Mad" Ironman Triathlon
• The UK Iron Man Triathlon
• The UK 70.3 Triathlon

CYCLE

• Lands End to John O'Groats

BUILDING RUNS

• The Empire States Building

And the ones I am already booked on for 2009

• The Manchester Great Run 10k - May 09. This will be my third run of this race.
• The London Triathlon 2009 - August 09.

Some pretty mad and extreme runs in there. But these are things I'd really love to do.

A tick list for a life of running, triathlon-ing and other sporty stuff.

Ok, let’s see how many of these I can tick off before I push up the daisies (hopefully MANY years off). Are you ready to join me on my journey? And I should be in a great place to be able to eventually achieve a lot of these as I work as a life coach, and spend my days helping people to live the life of their dreams, and become Powerfully Positive People through my website http://www.liveyourdreamlifetoday.co.uk/

So let's get running!

D

0804 Wednesday 8th April 2009