60@60 an Idea

I’m not absolutely sure where this idea came from.  Lynne and I walked the West Highland Way last year which had demanded a lot of training walks which we thoroughly enjoyed yet this year, with no goal to drive us, we’re doing very little walking. A moment of thinking it’d be nice to have a similar goal coincided with an awareness of being 60 next year and my daughter Gillian tapping me up for sponsorship for a London based 10k she is running and the idea formed.

Last summer Lynne and I watched at the roadside in Salford as Gillian ran a 10k in which I also saw a friend Clare from Pure107.8FM and I was aware of a feeling of wishing I was part of it. We taxied Gillian to a 5k Santa Dash at Heaton Park which looked achievable to me, though only to finish, not with a time target. I’ve since been reading the adventures of an old BT colleague Dan, who has started doing Park Run and regales us with tales via Facebook including now beating the guy in jeans who at first was faster than him. We have a local Park Run near us at Bramhall.

So, the idea of 60@60 gelled, a 60 minute target to complete a 10k run after my 60^th birthday in 2013.