Hey, hey, folks. Welcome to Bam’s blog. Tiddles Maloney here (cub reporter on The Sporting Universe – the best selling sports magazine in the universe.) Guess what? It’s raining over this of the pond.
Bam did 10.5 miles at 10:30 a.m. including 3.5 miles of brutal climbing in the Slieve Mish Mountains. A decent workout: at about 10k race effort. He was blowing like an old woman loaded with grocery bags.
Tonight, after Bam’s 6 mile shakeout, I’ll have some decent stuff for you. But for now I’ll sign off as we’re all going swimming. Yipee – can’t think of anything worse...
Back again, folks. What an afternoon. Hit the pool with the Bamster and family and then stayed home while Bam went out in the rain for his 6 miles shakeout. Bam in a swimming pool – what a sight. He looked like a stick insect.
Anyway, while Bam was doing his shakeout I spent time considering my notes and the last couple of days. Loads to throw at you but first I’ll clear a few things up, as there appears to be some confusion.
Of course I’m not Tiddles Maloney. I’m not a lumberjack or a character either –sorry JakeJ I’m a leprechaunJJ I’m Sean the running guru – the leprechaun from Bam’s early days on the site. My mission’s to keep Bam on the straight and narrow – off the booze and fags and bad food. Yeah, okay he’s a tad nuts but that’s all part of the metamorphoses. We all know he isn’t going to run anywhere near 2:20. But he is in shape. His sessions and miles are all true (RobJ) as is the 3000m ‘stuff’ from the other day. I need to get him to trawl through the darkness so that he can come through into the light and stay there etc.
I think he’s beginning to accept that he’ll do well just to stay fit and healthy. But that doesn’t mean that I will not have him out on the roads running 10k’s and marathons etc.
I have a plan. I want him to do the Tralee marathon and set three goals A, B, & C. ‘A’ will be very tough on a tough course but you never know. ‘B’ will be hard too and ‘C’ will be realistic and commendable – all things considered. But I’ll deal with those things on another day.
Also, just to let you know, I’ll be doing interviews with members of his family and his friends etc. I’ll be ripping apart his life and here’s a real taster for you: handy boxer, studied philosophy and literature at Warwick university – even though he left school with hardly a qualification to his name, lived in Botswana for two years and Kenya for a year; he had to escape from Kenya into Uganda under the cover of night and bribe a border guard, he was the editor of a best selling tabloid newspaper and owned a national tabloid newspaper, he retrained as a physical therapist and set up a successful clinic that’s still running today, a team of 8 close protection officers (bodyguards) were assigned to guard him and his family and then you’ve got all the gangsters and organized crime stuff. No wonder this guy hit the bottle. But can he stay off it? Can he sort out a goal and stick to it? Can I sort out a way of relaying the details of all this ‘stuff’ and keep Bam motivated, even though that might mean he gets bogged down in a mire of mediocrity?
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