I’m sorry to have hijacked Chris’s (Playtheman’s) post, but when I heard about Mark proposing to run the Snowdon Marathon I felt I had to reply with my experience.
Despite the hardships it was one of the best Marathons I have run and if you can run twenty six miles as Mark has done in the past (in excellent times might I add) you must run this one, it’s brilliant.
As for exercising to lose weight, I think it is a non starter. Perhaps in the short term.
I weigh in at around ten and a half stone and have been a long distance runner for almost forty years. During my time as a Marathon and fell runner I was nine and a half stone but as age advanced and running declined I added a stone. The only time I returned to nine and a half stone was when I worked as a postman, jogging round eight miles for five days and training for the remaining two days.
I have never run to lose weight or keep fit, I have always run because I love it and always will. Unless you enjoy a sport for what it is, you will never keep it up long enough to lose weight and keep it off. Losing weight is a side effect of running, not the other way round. Doing something you love is self motivating, as the advert says ‘Just Do It’.
Whatever you do to lose weight remember to be patient and treat it as a long term exercise, gently gently is the way to go, losing weight rapidly is not healthy and will lower your resistance to infections and diseases.
