Brighton Marathon

Recently my attention was drawn to the fact that Brighton is having it's own marathon in April 2010 and I decided that I should enter. Probably foolhardy as I have never run further than about 5 miles before, so 26 miles may be a bit tricky...still it's 7 months away so plenty of time for training. Sounds like the course will be fairly flat, at least in the 2nd half, so that's a good thing!


Thought that keeping a blog of my training might encourage me to stick to the training and let people know how I'm doing. I started training this week roughly following a beginners training schedule from Runner's World and am planning to move into the intermediate schedule from January.

Had my second 25 minute run/jog today and it felt great. My funky new armband thingy for my mp3 player arrived this morning just before I left for my run and it works really well! Okay, it probably looks silly but it's handy to have. It was very sunny today so it was pretty hot to go running but it's great to finally be getting some sunshine! I also had a long bike ride to The Badgers Watch yesterday involving some steep hills so my legs are feeling the pain today.

At the moment running non-stop for 25 minutes feels like an achievement so running for 4-5 hours doesn't even seem possible right now!