If I had made an actual list of 100 things to do before I die then “running a marathon” would be up there near the top of the list – in fact it is one of the few things that I know that I have always wanted to do ….  So last year I decided to stop messing around hoping that someday I would achieve this particular goal and actually set about to attempt it.

First I set about training for my local half marathon, I did 10 weeks training for it will my longest run at 12.5 miles (it was only supposed to be 10 miles but I took a wrong turn and got lost!) and then found out that I needed to have an operation that meant I was unable to take part in the marathon as I needed 4 weeks rest with no exercise – I was specifically told that I WOULD NOT be taking part in the half   I was completed gutted that I couldn’t do the half, especially after all the training that I had done but after a couple of months wallowing (is that how it is spelt?) I decided that I needed to get back onto the wagon. 

I searched around for an appropriate marathon but couldn’t really find one locally, but then spotted that the Edinbugh one was quite flat and in May which left loads of time to get into shape… I registered immediately before I could change my mind and then proceeded to tell everyone about it so that I couldn’t back out either, so now for the hard work – let the training commence…..

In order to monitor my own training I have set up a separate blog to log my training Vics Marathon