One of our Clients at Bodyline will be running the Ealing Half Marathon on 30 September and it will be her first attempt at running the distance or indeed, any distance!
Hannah runs her own food PR company and eats, lives and breathes food! So, Hannah has also decided to take a couple of sessions with the Bodyline Fitness Sports Nutritionist Jo Scott-Dalgleish to help her with her Nutrition and diet.
We will be checking in with Hannah from time to time and hopefully her diary entries may inspire one or two of you!
Hannah doing her core exercises!
Here is Hannah’s first “diary entry”:
So, today I ran around my local park for around 30 mins.
This probably sounds very easy to you but to me it felt like I’d climbed a mountain. Everything hurt, and I wheezed and coughed and moaned to myself throughout, but I did it.
Around 2 months ago – after a fairly long period of heartache after my fella and I parted ways, and a creeping up of dress sizes which horrified me – I decided to do something about it. I needed a focus to distract me which didn’t involve running my lovely company, drinking wonderful cocktails, smoking fags, crying over the ex, or eating in fabulous restaurants.
I needed to do something different. After years of silently hating park joggers, with their smug ‘tracky bottoms’ and ergonomic water bottles, I’ve become one of them. I have been seeing the brilliant Roy at Bodyline Studios in Ealing for over a year now, and gradually I’ve been getting physically stronger. I felt I was just drifting with my health and fitness and so deciding to run the Ealing Half Marathon in September was a big decision but something that I needed to do.
The biggest challenge I’m going to face is that i love my food. I’m not ashamed to admit that. I live and breathe it – my PR company, http://www.nourishpr.com/ looks after food brands and wonderful restaurants – and so every waking working hour is spent thinking or talking about food. It’s a borderline obsession.
I’ve decided to do a couple of sessions with Jo Scott-Dalglish, http://www.nutritionsolutions4health.co.uk/ a nutritionist that works well with people who are in training. Yes I have to keep a food diary but surely that’s no bad thing. I’ll have to admit to those 5 mini eggs I had last night.
Hopefully you’ve read this far and not got too bored. I know – I surprise myself. I am now the one in the smug running pants and posh water bottle and I am feeling better for it. I have lost a little weight (small steps….) and though it’s hard, and I get tired (and REALLY hungry) I think it’s starting to pay off.
I’ll be writing about the changes I’ll be going through in the next five months. I’m looking forward to it (she says, wheezing.)
Hi Hannah, I will be really interested to follow your blog. I have been running for about 7 years, but only short distances – 10K. I never saw myself as a runner prior to starting, and don’t see myself now as a person who could find the commitment/will power to do long distances, but I am hoping your blog may inspire me to take my running to another level. I will wait for the next instalment! Don’t forget how massage can assist in injury prevention as well as speeding up the healing process if you develop any injuries!