About me.

Lets get things into perspective.

I don't run. In fact, sometimes I struggle to walk. I have arthritis in my knees and back and I am overweight. By quite a lot.

So why have I decided to run a 10K event?

Well, in the space of a month, my friend's partner and then another close friend have found out that they have cancer. Both dont deserve to have to face this.

This is my way of showing support and hopefully to raise money for Cancer Research. Hopefully by documenting my journey, I can stay focused and encourage people to stay interested enough to sponsor me on this epic adventure.

Day 21 - 11 June 2013 - Nigel - RAISING THE TITANIC

                             by Mr Nigel Howells

 Tuesday 4th June, possibly a day that will change my life
                                      forever.

    A day that could quite possibly be the day that was the beginning of the end of life as I know it.

 That was the day that somehow, God only knows how, that two workmates (she devils) persuaded me to run in the Swansea Bay 10k run.

Now for most of you guy’s reading this blog you may think

                                       “so what?”, 
     

                                           10k........ that’s nothing!!!

                             but for a 19 stone unfit decrepit civil servant,

                                                       it’s massive.

 For me to run this 10k to the end, is the equivalent of them raising the Titanic, giving her a full refit  and resailing her from Southampton to New York,
                                                                   a massive task.

 And no doubt along the way I’ll hit more massive obstacles than the Titanic ever did on its fateful journey back in 1912.

So with the help of my trusty training partner Jack the Dog, I've begun “Raising the Titanic”, bit by bit we are going to winch that baby out the North Atlantic,
                     paint her up and get her sailing again.

The first 4 days training, when I say training, I mean walking the Dog 5 miles, have been tough, list of injuries below…


  • Bad Right Knee
  • Strained Right Calf
  • Chaffing of the inner thighs
  • Chaffing of the Bollocks
  • Frozen Right Shoulder
  • Blisters (even got one under my armpit??????)
  • Chaffing of the Bola Ridge(where the belly overhang meets the whatever is below it)
  • Hay Fever
  
But I've battled on, and Day 5 was going to be my biggest challenge yet, YES I was going to attempt to RUN, JOG, SPRINT, WOBBLE, please delete as you feel appropriate. 

So with Jack The Dog unleashed and nobody in sight I started to get 19 stone of rusty, decrepit body mass into forward motion. You could hear bones and joints creaking that have not creaked in 25 years, it was a noise to behold,.
              The Titanic was off the seabed and was on its way up.

10yds,
          25yds 
                  50 yds, 
                             this was going way better than I expected, 
                                                                                         100yds had gone by and I was still breathing, hey this ain't too bad I thought. 

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Now, when 19 stone is at full speed it must develop it’s own Gravital Pull, there were all sorts of insects orbiting around my mass, midges, flies, even Jack The Dog was getting involved and then after around 120yds and about 40 seconds it was all over, whilst  gasping for air a Daddy Longlegs crashed into my mouth and instantly began wrestling with my tonsils, choking and spluttering I stopped and after 5 mins continued walking. 

Raising the Titanic will have to wait another day, but we will raise her and we will get around that 10k course.
                                             

                                           That is a promise.


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2 comments:

  1. Rhydd11 June 2013 at 15:13

    Keep it up, Nige. I know that your heart will go on.

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  2. Mo Farrah11 June 2013 at 22:28

    Ha ha, fantastic

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