round and round and round and round (you get the picture)

Went to Tooting Bec at the weekend and watched some of the Tooting Bec 24hrs race, the basic idea is to see how many laps of a 400 meter track you can run in 24hrs both physically and mentally a tough ask, i originally thought it was a bloody stupid idea but now I'm not sure and i think this could well be squeezed into next years schedule........

Well done to Rab (a British Ultra runner) who managed 93 miles in the 24 hrs...

Hat Trick

Not quite what i had planned for today but nether less today's 28 miler made it 3 marathons over the last 3 weekends, originally i planned to run the Downs Link a 37 mile path from Shoreham by sea to Guildford but to be perfectly honest its been quite a long week and when the alarm went off at 04:00am this morning i turned it off and went back to bed.

350 miles across the Arctic is just a warm up race

Somewhere along the line i entered the London marathon, and much to my amazement i got a place, 2009 is going to be quite busy what with the 350 mile 6633 Ultra in March, the London Marathon in April and the 145 mile Grand Union Canal race in May, might have to fit in a couple of rest days in early June!!!

The day after

Unlike last weekend I'm pain free today, legs a little tired, I'm a little tired but no pain, going to take it easy this week running wise as i have the 37 miles of the Downs link to do next Saturday!!!

When is a marathon not a marathon

when it is the Lea Vally Marathon, perhaps it just me but i think when organising a marathon the fundamental thing to get right is the distance, we'll ignore the fact that the last 4 checkpoints were either just not their or unmanned, well also ignore the fact that some people cut about 2 miles off the loop in the middle because they ignored the signs, well ignore the fact that their was no medal or tee shirt, but at least get the distance right, and it wasn't short my a few hundred yards it was short by a whole mile!!
I kept up a good pace, slowed slightly towards the end not because i was tired but because of the very strong head wind for the last 10 miles, my time for the 25 miles was 3hr 21mins so if it had been the full distance a sub 3hr 30min marathon was on the cards, felt very good at the end not particularly tired or fatigued so i walked the 2 miles to leytonstone tube station to make up for the missing mile....