I’m never one to do things the sensible way, so when I slowly began to progress from my half marathon distance I decided that I would attempt to run a marathon while it was easy to train and adapt my body in such a way. I usually rush into things, with my head in the clouds and blag my way through but I decided that this time I wanted to do this properly and really enjoy the experience having trained properly. So one random day in April I signed up for the Brighton 2012 marathon, thoroughly satisfied that with a year to train I would be in tip top condition.
I started training hard and fast increasing my distance significantly past the 13 mile wall and found that I hit a new wall, 16 miles. Frustrated with myself and mentally never being able to push myself past this point I tried to understand why psychologically my body wouldn’t let me go further in this distance and over the past few weeks the realisation that my goal is too far away to make me push myself hard enough.
So me being me and never doing things the normal way has signed up for a marathon. Fair enough I hear you say, surely you’ve got 12-16 weeks over the year that you set yourself to train, which is still more than enough time. Aha! Here is where the problem lies, as I only have 8 weeks….
Is it doable? I have no idea; the body can do strange and wonderful things when you really want it to. Will I get a good time? Probably not but I will be happy just to complete it! So for the next 8 weeks I will blog my very short but sweet journey to my very first marathon.
Wish me luck!
(I might not win but I can dream big!)
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