I’m gunna run a Marathon!

Jeekers, It’s been a while since I wrote a blog! 

Well as if my life isn’t hectic enough, I thought I’d add something more to the mix… A marathon!

Yip, I am now in training to run the Dublin City Marathon on the 26th of October 2009.  I am doing it because I have always wanted to run a marathon.

I specifically wanted to run the Dublin City Marathon cuz Dad ran that one and we have a photograph of him just finishing the race and the clock behind him declaring “3 hours and 5 minutes”.  I remember when he was training for it too, I was quite young at the time and I remember coming in from school and asking my mother where he was.
She said he was running over to Garrettstown and back again.  I remember thinking that was very strange altogether and I asked her if his car was broken or something (there were no local taxi’s then – ha!).

Well there’s no way I will beat the Walsh record…  Who knows what’ll happen in the future, but for now I just want to complete the floggin’ thing.

So I am midway through ‘Week Two’ of my 21 week intensive training programme.  At the moment it’s easy as I am just kind of doing what I normally would do, but every week it increases 10% .

In about 6 weeks time I will be foaming at the mouth I’d say and the ol’ joints will be giving me gyp, especially my knees.  I’m obsessed with my knees, I am afraid of getting a knee injury.  I might use some of them knee improving machines at the gym.

As it is, I cycle 83 miles a week in my commute to work.  This combined with 50 hours work and 20+ miles of running actually kinda makes me laugh in a kind of mental way.  I have given up the drink too as i know what I am like.  If I drink I will lose focus. 

My summer is therefore a social write off.

Oh, I am raising money for the Donkeys at the Donkey Sanctuary in Mallow:

http://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ie/

Can ye sponsor me?

Will be buggin’ ye all closer the time anyway…