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You may remember back in January I got my London marathon place. Obviously, I had great plans to follow a plan, get fit and complete in a world record breaking 2 hours. Well ... that didn't quite happen, but I have been making an attempt to stick to my training plan.

Here's a quick summary of my running since sending my entry in:
January

• w/c 10th: 12th [5.68km], 16th [2.13km, until battery died; about 10km]. TOTAL: 15.68km
• w/c 17th: 20th [15.5km]. TOTAL: 15.50km
• w/c 24th: 24th [7.15km], 27th [10.90km]. TOTAL: 18.05km
• w/c 31st: 31st [10.30km], 6th [22.10km -- hillwalk]. TOTAL: 32.40km

• w/c 7th: 7th [6.03km], 10th [10.80km]. TOTAL: 16.83km
• w/c 14th: 15th [7.51km], 17th [12.30km], 19th [12.56km -- Scottish National Cross Country Championships]. TOTAL: 32.37km
• w/c 21st: 24th [11.40km], 27th [25.70km]. TOTAL: 37.10km
• w/c 28th: 1st [7.96km], 3rd [11.80km], 6th [16.10km]. TOTAL: 35.86km

• w/c 7th: 8th [7.63km], 9th [workout, cycling & 20mins *fast* run at gym], 10th [13.40km], 13th [32.18km]. TOTAL: 53.21km

One mile is approximately 1.6km (handy distance converter here), which means last week I finally ran more than a marathon (26miles 385yards) adding all my training together. Yikes. My 20 mile Sunday run was almost the longest I've ever done, and came in at 3hours 6minutes of running, which is OK. Faster would be better, naturally!

The next few weeks are very busy, but running is hard-scheduled in. Watch this space for more running updates as the magical date of April 17th comes around. Quite handily, my birthday (25th) is the following week, so there will be time to console or celebrate with me! For now though, the beers stay on ice (apart from once a week!).