Main menu Post navigation What are you going to do next year?? ...is one of the first questions that I usually get asked after explaining what I am doing for One BIG Year. The answer I usually give is "Hibernate!" -- however it merely masks that I really don't know what I want to do next year. What this year has shown me is that the human body is incredibly adaptable -- it is true what they say- you can achieve anything that you put your mind to. I was not an endurance athlete in any shape or form -- not even really an athlete come to think of it! I bumbled around a 5 aside pitch with my two left feet on occasion, and I joined in some sports at work, however I never could call myself an athlete. The first spark was when I joined Parkrun -- a free 5k run that is held worldwide every week. It is organised by volunteers -- and I joined in because my mates James, Emma and Kate were doing it. After gasping round the first lap of two -- I made a resolution to get fit again. I signed up for the Jones Lang LaSalle sprint triathlon, and trained hard for that. When I beat my goal time of 1 hour 30 -- I was over the moon -- and resolved to get faster and go longer. That is when I started hatching the plan for OBY. I weighed in at