The training books are all read, two half marathons are complete and seven weeks ago in a moment of pure insanity I entered the Paris Marathon. The easy bits are done. It's day three of 2010, the countdown begins...time to get serious...
Up at 6.45am for the first run of the New Year. Panic is beginning to set in that the Paris Marathon is just 14 weeks today! Last night, I tried in vain to find a 14 week marathon training plan but they all seem to be a minimum of 16 weeks...have I left it too late??
Today is the Pennine 10k at Brighouse.
Meet Lisa & Julie, my fellow Eccleshill Road Runners (ERR), at the end of the road. The snow is pretty bad and as we drive into Bradford to meet Gill (another ERR member), Lisa wonders whether the race will be cancelled because of the ice. Unfortunately, her prediction comes to fruition as we approach Brighouse there is a call from Mick Hogan (top notch ERR) to confirm the race is cancelled. Undeterred, Lisa suggests we run anyway and drives us to a park for a short run.
We're just warming up (well, of sorts), when we're joined by another would-be Pennine 10k racer from Baildon runners. Turns out he's run nine marathons and is full of tips. The main thing I remember though is his experience that once you start doing training runs over 13 miles your weight drops off. Well, every cloud....
He also confirms my reading (the bible - The Competitive Runners Handbook) that I shouldn't go over 20 miles on a training run. I like this man!!
We do about three miles in the end, not much, but it is freezing cold and surely we're using more muscle power running in snow?
Finish off with a warming coffee and bagel in McDonalds...hmm not sure that is on the training plan.
Well, it's a start...
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