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Berlin marathon training redux, day 5. This is not how I’d imagined the first Saturday morning of this training cycle. Except for the huge bowl of porridge, that’s obligatory ;-)

I’ve got 8 miles on my schedule today, instead of running however I slept in. Maybe you remember my bout of plantar fasciitis last fall after the marathon, my foot certainly does. I guess I’ve got some scar tissue in that heel and since last night it’s been a bit tender. No running for me today, hopefully I’ll get in a couple easy miles while I’m at the conference next week and then I’ll do the 8 miles next Saturday. Fingers and toes crossed.

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Berlin marathon training redux, day 3. 3 miles, no Garmin.

Booyah, I love marathon training. Another beautiful day, another great run. Remind me of this in a couple weeks time when I’ll tell you how it’s beyond me that I signed up for another marathon willingly, ok?

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I looked at my work schedule for next week. Not pretty, I’m going to a conference in Lisbon (my life sounds way more glamourous than it is) and our company’s travel agent booked me the most stupid flights ever. It will be nearly impossible to fit in all my marathon training runs. So, to appease my OCD training nature and to not dig myself into a hole of overtraining/no sleep/too much stress in the first week of this marathon cycle already, I decided to start my training schedule yesterday. I ran the required distance anyway, and if I start now, I can have a off-plan easy week while I’m at the conference. Yep, it’s official - crazy season has begun!

Berlin marathon training v2, day 1 and 2. 3 and 5 miles, no Garmin. I’m excited!

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I had to stop lots today to take pictures. Only because the light was spectacular, not because of beaten legs from Saturday’s 11 miles. No, not at all.

Ready or not, marathon training starts next week. Oh my.

P.S. Sonja don’t freak out, I’m starting the training plan two weeks early to get a safety cushion for vacation/conferences.

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Accidental 11 miles today.

Out and back along the Thames. I got lost right after my turn around and ran a good extra mile through an industrial area/construction site. Also, full on headwind both ways (how is this possible?) and I didn’t bring any food. Silly 007runner should know better. The eleventh mile, I felt great again, probably delirium starting to set in.

A long run is a long run, not all can be great. I take it, building stamina for Berlin, redux.

London Tumblr meetup and Run.

jeremyrunblues:

It has been arranged… 2012milesin2012 and I will be at Marble Arch on Saturday 18th May, 2013 for a meet-up and run, at around 9:30 am.

All of you London tumblrs (and anyone else in the neighbourhood for that matter) are all welcome to join- would be a blast to meet you all!

London tumblr run in two weeks, yay! Come along!

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Weird story from my run today:

Serious runner dude overtakes me and then farts. Several times. With abandon. I just can’t wrap my head around it. True, running can mess up your innards, I’m the last one to deny that. But why letting it fly like that?

Hypglycemic delirium? Testing a new race strategy of incapacitating your opponents? Infantile notion that if he couldn’t hear it I wouldn’t either (come on, you were the one with headphones)? Jet propulsion?

Don’t tell me that it probably was an emergency and he was sprinting to avoid a catastrophe, the public toilets were the other way.

Freaky. Otherwise it was a beautiful, beautiful morning.

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The last couple days haven’t been great, fighting via skype and being the arbiter of bad news at work. Don’t worry, it’s all fine. And anyway, life can’t be all rainbows and unicorns.

However, it can be bright lycra and double breakfast. I ran along the Thames this morning, a bit far for a regular workday but it sure made me feel better.

P.S. Phil lately suggested that I might qualify as modern art, maybe my hair needs to get even crazier for that though because Tate Modern didn’t let me in this morning. Phil, I love you, you always make me laugh. Why, oh why aren’t you coming to Berlin?

London marathon ballot →

FYI, the lottery opened today! I entered (without the usual niggle ‘a fully mary, really?!’, in previous years chances were around 1:7 of actually getting a slot).

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Saturday sightseeing: Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Tate Britain, London Eye, St. Paul’s, Tower Bridge…

I’d planned on a shorter run today but ended up running a good 9 miles, oopsy daisy. Proof that I can’t do maths while running and that my garmin’s playing games with me. Pretty stoked though, I’m edging closer to double digit runs again.