Me
I'm Simon Lovick, a thirty-something (I can say thirty-something now I've reached 31!) Audit Manager living in Takeley, Essex (UK for any international readers unaware of where Essex is)
While my job and my two young sons keep me busy enough, I wanted to run 1,718km between 6 April 2017 and 5 April 2018 and keep a record of it here - see Why? for my reasons why.
As I start this journey I am certainly not a runner.
If I used the present perfect I would say 'I have run', however technically the present perfect tense requires an action that started in the past and continues in the present, but do I continue in the present right now?
I have run in organised runs (10ks, 5ks) I have even trained to some degree to prepare for them, but I'm not a runner. Proof? After coming up with this idea I went out for a run (29 March 17) that turned out to be 4.3k in total (to the shops and back) My fitbit app told me that my previous run was 3rd July 2016 (Stort 5 mile run in Hatfield Forest) - nearly 9 months without running! This is going to be a challenge.
1,718k in 365 days (why didn't I pick a leap year? or try this a few years ago - 2013/14 would have been a few fewer kilometre). This is going to be a challenge.
Just over 4.7k a day. This is going to be a challenge.
Looking at my recent activity I've averaged about 2k a day, that includes days out with the family at weekends. Ok, that's with my phone on the desk most of the working day in the week (I start the challenge with just a tracker on my phone, no wrist band yet) - so I'm missing out on all those steps to the printer or the kitchen to make tea.....probably not as many as I wish. This is going to be a challenge.
Some colleagues who are joining me on running or walking 1,718k are telling me "no problem, I probably do nearly 5k a day anyway". They typically have a dog, are physically much fitter than me or don't have young children they'd probably rather be with than spending time running endless miles - or all three. For me, this is going to be a challenge.
I'd better get on with it then!
While my job and my two young sons keep me busy enough, I wanted to run 1,718km between 6 April 2017 and 5 April 2018 and keep a record of it here - see Why? for my reasons why.
As I start this journey I am certainly not a runner.
If I used the present perfect I would say 'I have run', however technically the present perfect tense requires an action that started in the past and continues in the present, but do I continue in the present right now?
I have run in organised runs (10ks, 5ks) I have even trained to some degree to prepare for them, but I'm not a runner. Proof? After coming up with this idea I went out for a run (29 March 17) that turned out to be 4.3k in total (to the shops and back) My fitbit app told me that my previous run was 3rd July 2016 (Stort 5 mile run in Hatfield Forest) - nearly 9 months without running! This is going to be a challenge.
1,718k in 365 days (why didn't I pick a leap year? or try this a few years ago - 2013/14 would have been a few fewer kilometre). This is going to be a challenge.
Just over 4.7k a day. This is going to be a challenge.
Looking at my recent activity I've averaged about 2k a day, that includes days out with the family at weekends. Ok, that's with my phone on the desk most of the working day in the week (I start the challenge with just a tracker on my phone, no wrist band yet) - so I'm missing out on all those steps to the printer or the kitchen to make tea.....probably not as many as I wish. This is going to be a challenge.
Some colleagues who are joining me on running or walking 1,718k are telling me "no problem, I probably do nearly 5k a day anyway". They typically have a dog, are physically much fitter than me or don't have young children they'd probably rather be with than spending time running endless miles - or all three. For me, this is going to be a challenge.
I'd better get on with it then!
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