Bluewater 10K Run, 14th June 2009

Why you might ask is Simon Adamson doing the marathon. Well there are two main reasons.

Following the Osborne Rail Christmas Party my wife commented one of my colleagues said they thought I had put a lot of weight on since joining Osborne and they were concerned about my health. Also over the Christmas break my mum gave me my annual dressing down, that people of my size where prone to diabetes. So that spurred me on to my first challenge. I gave up drinking alcohol for a month; the only thing is I forgot to start again. So far its 5 months and 16 days since I have had an alcoholic drink. After about 2 months of not drinking I started to do a bit of exercise. This really started off by giving Kelly-Ann Ee and the girls some support and joining them on a training session for the three peaks.

So what’s the second reason I hear you all asking. Well being a health and safety manager its easy to measure what we do for safety, so this started my mind working on a project to encourage my colleagues in the Rail sector to improve they health. I put a proposal to the Rail Managing Director Mike Cocks with various activities culminating with me doing the London Marathon for Railway Children, (unfortunately he agreed).

So here I am just completed my first race- the Bluewater 10k run organised by He Runs She Runs (contrary to rumour this wasn’t chasing my wife around the shops!). It just had to be one of the first hot days of summer, and I managed it in 58 mins. This is less than 25% of a Marathon, so more training needed for me!

So far I have lost 2 ½ stones! But for those of you who have tried a Wii fit I’m still obese!