Running The City, London Marathon 2006

London Marathon Acceptance Shock

Having been rejected several times in the past for the London Marathon, I have run it 5 times since 1986, I duly sent off my application form in the Summer fully expecting to be rejected again. However the other day I picked up a letter at work with a Marathon franking mark on it. At first I thought it may just be some advertising junk but on opening it I soon discovered that it was a letter saying that I had been accepted for next years race. After the shock had settled down my thoughts turned to horror, a marathon is 26 miles long which is a very long way when you have become as unfit as I have.
I need some new trainers so the first thing I did was buy a running magazine for the trainer ads, it also had a very good article on food, which although I probably wont follow it to the letter I will hopefully take some notice of it.
This time I want to make a concerted effort to train properly and shatter my rather slow personal best of 4 hours 29 minutes, so hopefully this blog will help me train and race better. My theory is that if people can see that I am making an effort then I will push my self even harder. I will be logging all of my training runs and chart my progress on here through the driving rain of Winter to Race day in Spring.
I `m not kidding myself, there is a very long way to go as I havent run since my last London Marathon in 2000, apart from to the pub that is.

posted by memorabiliashop @ 6:03 pm