So having sat on the marathon news for a couple of weeks I have decided two things.
1. I need a proper schedule and I probably need a schedule to get me to the schedule.
Excited with the news regarding the marathon place I went and did a 16 mile run. It's the first time I've ever gone over the 13.1 miles of a half marathon. I had intended to do a 14 but messed up by going freestyle on the route! By jimminy did it hurt!
So I got in touch with Lucy Ellis and Andrea Culp both newly qualified UKA coaches and they are really keen to help map out a schedule which is fab!
2. As my first attempt at a marathon I figure that if I can use it as a way of raising a little cash for a charity then that is what I should do. I have decided to hook up with Asthma UK. I promised my daughter many years ago that if I ever did the London Marathon that I would run in aid of Asthma. The irony is that since then, whilst she is still theoretically asthmatic she does seem to have grown out of it whereas I have grown into being diagnosed as asthmatic last year - it being nearly the cause of me giving up running.
As I have a ballot place the great thing is that all the money I raise goes directly to Asthma UK whether that be 30 or 30,000 pounds plus in wearing their vest it does a little bit towards raising their profile.
Getting excited about all this now!
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
London Marathon Here We Come...!
Almost unable to believe it but London Marathon Here We Come!!
I have been applying for a place in the London Marathon for as long as I have been running. For those that don't know the London Marathon is massively oversubscribed. I don't know the exact figures but I am pretty sure they get about 100,000 applicants per year for around 20,000 places. How it then works is that if you are rejected for five consecutive years then you are guaranteed a place for the sixth year.
I had assumed I would be rejected and thus get a guaranteed place in the 2010 running of the London Marathon only to be suprised by the 'Congratulations You Are In' magazine. OMG panic sets in....!
This is my chance to finally lose some weight and get really fit! I going to need a schedule and a pre-schedule. Wow - I'm in !
I have been applying for a place in the London Marathon for as long as I have been running. For those that don't know the London Marathon is massively oversubscribed. I don't know the exact figures but I am pretty sure they get about 100,000 applicants per year for around 20,000 places. How it then works is that if you are rejected for five consecutive years then you are guaranteed a place for the sixth year.
I had assumed I would be rejected and thus get a guaranteed place in the 2010 running of the London Marathon only to be suprised by the 'Congratulations You Are In' magazine. OMG panic sets in....!
This is my chance to finally lose some weight and get really fit! I going to need a schedule and a pre-schedule. Wow - I'm in !
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