Hi all
The nub of my question is this - I am v overweight and improving my fitness - my running is a super-slow shuffle - am I fooling myself to think I could do the Edinburgh marathon in May?
The long story...
I've recently got back into fitness following an 7-8 year break. During that time I put on loads of weight and became very sedentary outside of work.
A few months ago, I finally got in the right headspace to make a change and joined 90 day online fitness & nutrition programme which has been great.
Over the last three months, I've lost 2 stone and become much fitter. I am still 2.5 stone overweight, which as a 5'4 woman is significant.
My resting heart rate has gone from 75 to 62, which I'm delighted about.
My daughter has a chronic disability and I would like to raise money for his charity and also raise the profile. I work in a sector where I could get quite a bit of corporate funding, provided I was doing something genuinely difficult.
Hence I signed up for the Edinburgh marathon late at night this week whilst in hospital with my daughter - pretty much in an emotional state, and now I'm not sure if it's achievable.
The Edinburgh marathon has a time limit of 6.30 hrs - I've just got up to running 10k on this fitness programme and my time was 1hr38 mins .
Is it even possible to improve enough to get round in about 6 hours?