As a final long training run before the New York marathon I ran the Spires and Steeples Challenge, a 26 mile event run from Lincoln to Sleaford along the Spires & Steeples Arts and Heritage Trail. In spite of a few navigational errors, the views and camaraderie between competitors make it a great way to complete your marathon long training runs or just enjoy walking the Lincolnshire countryside.
There are many reasons why people take up a sport, but after achieving the initial sporting or fitness goal what motivates the average club athlete to keep to their training schedule.
Professional tennis has recently begun to allow players to challenge umpire’s calls by utilising a computer system called Hawk-eye. However, a perceptual error is often made by professional tennis umpires, which players could exploit to their advantage, with successful challenges having significant effects on the outcome of matches.
Restricting food for weight loss isn’t really my thing. Although I need to lose some weight, I think it’s more important to adopt a long term healthy diet than to starve yourself for a few weeks. I started by not having sugar in my coffee, there is around 16 calories in a teaspoon of sugar, which doesn’t sound like much but in 5 cups a day 7 days a week that is around 560 calories.
Posted on May 27th, 2009 in Strenua's Challenge
The scientist in me wanted to record my baseline body measurements so if my weight loss plateaus I can hopefully stay motivated with some recordable inch losses.
