Great 08 Blog entry – Feb 4 2008
ONE thing few people tell you about when you start jogging regularly is chafing.
I've been treated to a mini insight into what new breast-feeding mothers endure this week after failing to protect my man boobs from their new arch enemy – clothing!
It was only after I felt like I'd been given two of the world's most uncomfortable nipple twisters that a friend of mine belatedly reminded me; “make sure you put some Vaseline on your nipples.”
Apparently, he was serious too.
Instead I picked up one of those black skin tight sports tops that are being worn by practically every footballer these days.
Although, admittedly, I look more 'whale from the sea' than 'Stevie G'.
However, this grease revelation did give my next run a rather comedy twist.
It's great pottering around Sefton Park imagining all the people running in the opposite direction have, just minutes earlier, been rubbing lubricants on their nipples and groin.
Needless to say, I got caught ogling more than once whenever a pretty girl in a sports bra crossed my path.
Thankfully, my pavement pounding is going pretty well all things considered.
I'm not a runner by any stretch of the imagination, so to be doing five mile runs inside the first week is definitely one early target reached.
Now I've just got to master the extra eight and this initial Half Marathon challenge will be a cinch!
Dave Curry wrote...
Yo Nick, just been reading about your plans for this year. Best of luck kidda!
When I was 26, I was a fit as hell Royal Marine and good standard amateur heavyweight boxer, then I suffered pretty bad head and brain injuries [not from boxing],which put me out of action for five years.
When I was 31, just like you now, I started out on the long road back to fitness, knowing I would never regain my former fitness, but I was determined to be as good as I could get, and I did it.
I'm 49 now and can still make lads half my age retch with fatigue, tee-hee!
But you know what made me push myself twice as hard when the going got tough,seeing little kiddies on my return visits to neuro hospital struggling to walk etc but still with a determined smile on their little faces, after they had suffered brain trauma/disease.
Some survived, some didn't. A lesson to us all, when we moan about how hard things are!
It reminded me of my Marine days, when I would tell recruits: "The strongest and weakest part of the human body is the mind"!
Stick in there mate, you can can and you will do it. YOU WILL DO IT!
Regards, Dave.
Posted by: Dave Curry | February 6, 2008 10:58 AM