Marathon Man Day 2

Alarm 550 - snooze 6am!

Did a quicker run this morning but pretty much the same distance. Average speed was about 11.8km/h which is just below my target of 12km/h.

I figure I can run at 12km/h for 42 km which makes it a 3.5 hour marathon. That oughta do it.

I paid the price for being so neat and tidy this morning - both my pairs of good running socks were in the wash so I ran in the cheapies and got a blister. The blister of course was at it's worse when I was farthest from home.

Social run again tomorrow.

13km total this week so far.

Marathon Man Day 1

Got up at 550am!

Hardest part of running is getting out of bed.

Did my Gould Street jog - 6.44km in 45 mins according to http://gps.motionx.com/overview/.

Handy bit of kit on the iphone - allows me to upload my run and include times, distance and a google map.

It was a social run. I'm working on the peer pressure model.

try for 10km tomorrow. solo.

Marathon Man

On Sunday 11th October I will be running in the Melbourne Marathon.

I'm registered (race number 639).

I've never run a marathon before. I've run a couple of half marathons but that's it.

I haven't trained for at least 6 months due to a foot injury. I have some grandpa style orthotics which will hopefully get me through.

I'm putting it out here as I don't think I have the willpower to get up at 6am to train unless this information is public; or at least as public as my blog, facebook and twitter can be.

I'm going to try using an iphone app http://gps.motionx.com/overview/ to track my training.

Apparently it can update twitter and facebook; we'll see.

So I have 4 months to train. Wish me luck!