........81 days to go.......
Feeling so virtuous this evening. This big challenge is full of lots of smaller ones (challengitos?), and one of the biggest is something we call experience, and often fall victim to. You know what I mean; you have something to do, somewhere to go, but before you do and go, you just have enough time to go home, make yourself a cup of tea, and get snuggly a comfy in front of the telly.
Yes, it's all very good saying that once you get up and get going it's all worthwhile; but in order to say it you still have to actually GET UP AND GET GOING!!! It is a this juncture that the seat of your sofa - or in my case the mattress of you hotel room bed becomes mighty sticky. Nevertheless, up I got, and going I went; and yes it is most definitely worthwhile. Six miles on a solo run tonight with naught but the mp3 player for company (on the subject of which, never buy cheap on these things; it keeps on missing out the intro of all the songs!!). I can't believe I am going to say this, but it was comfortable!! I seem to have found a pace that I can maintain. Okay it may be more mower than Mo Farah, but if it gets me 'there'; who cares?!!
This brings me onto something else which seems to have slipped through little bloggy cracks over the last few months.....AND no one else noticed (big cross against your names for observation)...what has happened to the milometer??
OOPS! I started with forgetting, then getting out of the habit of keeping track; plus there was a time there where the miles weren't going up at all, and no one wants to make a big play of how much running they are NOT doing. However, the good news is that the training plan has kept track of all the mileage, so it's a simple case of adding them all up.
And what is the current total at my friends? Well, the last figure was on 11th September 2012 (not long before the Great North) and stood at 341 miles. Here, on Wednesday 30th January, I can confirm that total training distance is now at........
......drum roll please.......
......eeee it's like the Blue Peter charity Christmas totaliser i'nt it?!!
509 miles!!
Yes that's right; the half grand has been broken! Not only that; if I stick to the training program, I already know that the 26th mile of the London Marathon will add up to........well.....that would be telling now? You'll just have to stay tuned wontcha?!
As always, I'll do it one mile, and one step at a time!!
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