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Week 1 Summary, This is going to be tough

I completed week 1 of the Marathon training. Who’s idea was this whole running thing anyway?
Here’s a summary of the weeks progress:
Week 1 – Day 2 – my first run after snow ruined official start day.

12 mi @ 8:52min/mi – hard work and still snow on the ground, freezing

Week 1 – Day 4 – easy [...]

Marathon Training Kicked Off, Sponsors Please

Today, one day late due to a last minute snow storm, I set off on my first official training run for the Edinburgh Marathon 2009. With 16 weeks to go before the big day, it was time to get off the build up runs and start on a proper program, when I have the finalised [...]

Inauguration spells new era

With a new occupant in the whitehouse, a new era of world politics dawns. It’s been a long time coming, there’s a lot of hope on the shoulders of Barack Obama, I’m optomistic he’ll handle it well.
In the meantime, I’ll just keep on running. Gearing up for the marathon was a bit harder [...]