It has been set up with the primary intention of documenting my 40
day fast but it's something I've been thinking about for a while, I
joke with people that this 12 month block is my mid-life crisis but
the truth is I've always been about challenges...
This year I decided to be a bit more formal about it and try to
set myself a few monster challenges this year, I'd like to get to 12
by the end of the year, (12 tasks of Heracles and all that) but we
will see how we go:
January: as part of the Plymouth to Timbuktu rally I and my son
drove a 1997 Isuzu Trooper 4500 miles from Guernsey to Banjul in
Gambia (Timbuktu and Mali being off limits due to military action)
The car was donated there to the local Lions club to be auctioned
off. I'll write a longer post on the trip another time.
April: Ran my first full marathon, Paris in a time of 4:42:50, I
wanted faster, but as my trainer pointed out, if I had hit my target
of 4:20 I'd still have wanted to run it sub 4. I ran the whole thing
and I finished knowing that with a more concerted training effort
that I will get a faster time, plans are afoot to start training
early June for the Guernsey Waterfront Marathon September 22nd.
April: I will be taking to the boxing ring for a white collar
fight, this is actually my 2nd fight, the first being in November
last year, but is probably more of a challenge as most of my recent
training has been focussed on the marathon and not boxing specific.
Guess I also want to prove to myself that I've got the guts to get
into the ring against a relative unknown opponent, as my first fight
was against someone I had done a lot of sparring with.
April: The 40 day fast, I had thought about this a lot last year
when I carried out my 21 day fast, the results I got were excellent,
but I felt that the one day a week feed of 1000 or so calories was
detrimental. So the question is can I totally abstain from food for a
prolonged period, what challenges will arise from that, and what
benefits, both short and long term.
The 5:2 fast, since my 21 day fast last year I have been flirting
around the edges of 5:2 fasting, some weeks sticking to it, but
towards the end of my marathon training I was advised to stop fasting
in order to be taking enough calories to cover those lost by the
amount of miles I was running. Since the marathon I feel I have to
get back into a structured pattern of 5:2 fasting, but obviously the
40 day comes first. I'll write a longer post on 5:2 when I can.
That's all for now, tomorrow I'm going to try and get to the
doctors for blood tests and will do all the other good stuff in
preparation of the fast, blood pressure, weight, body measurements
and a few photo's.
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