What's this blog all about?

You may already know that I'm a keen road runner, and that I ran the Flora London Marathon in 2007 and raised £3300 for Macmillan Cancer Care... this year decided to try once again to get a place in the Flora London Marathon.

In late November I was stunned to receive notification that I had been accepted for a ballot place, a 2008 London Marathon place was now assured.

I created this blog just to keep a record of important (and not so important) events along the way!

Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Sunday 18th March

Decided on a more regular short Sunday run with Cliff, just seven miles to test out my new marathon kit.

The water belt is a huge improvement over carrying a bottle, I expected some discomfort but it was just fine, it sits around your hip line and I can honestly say I hardly noticed it was there. You do get a sense that you're always running next to a small brook though... it's the water sloshing around in the bottle!

I tested a Go Gel too about halfway through the run. Easy to open, easy to consume, managed to do it with out getting it all over the place and although it really does have the consistency of frog spawn it tastes OK. The main thing was that it stayed put, no nausea, no tummy upset. That will do me for the marathon.

Sunday was too cold for running in shorts if you ask me... cold legs!

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