I need you! Another motivational based diary.

[Claw75]

you can do it rooks!  Sure you'll get loads of sponsorship from the generous blondes too   3 and a half hours I reckon.

[Laxie]

Plasters over your nipples are a must.

He's got just the thing to sort that out, but if you go with plasters Rooks...pictures or it didn't happen.   

[kinboshi]

You'll do it easy Rooks.  You've beat me to the diary thing though - I was going to do the same and write a diary about my training for London.  Any bugger can do the marathon - it's just about doing the miles in training.

I ran a half-marathon on Sunday, my slowest ever time for a half-marathon, but I haven't done any proper training over the past 9 months+.  Michelle (the missus) also did it, and she's gone from not being able to run for more than a few minutes at a time to running the whole 13.1 miles (in bloody horrible conditions as well) in the space of about a year or so.  We're both aching now, but I can tell that Michelle's chuffed at doing it - and she should be.

As for the training for a marathon, you can't cram it. That's the key.  You need to be doing a regular number of miles a week before you start your marathon plan (which is often over a 16-week period).  So really you want to be doing so many miles a week before January when you'll start the dedicated plan.  I'm looking to be doing 35 miles a week before January.  At the moment I'm only doing 10.

Get yourself entered into some 10K runs and some half-marathons in the spring.  I'm looking to do the London half (it's at Silverstone not in London, don't ask) and the Reading half (that is in Reading), both in March - which are ideal in the build-up for London.  But if you enter some 10Ks for early 2009, you'll have a goal that's a lot nearer and that will get you training as it's all too easy to think 26 April is a long way away and to keep putting your training off.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus

[NoflopsHomer]

Motivation

[Rooky9]

Advice, invest heavily in vaseline. It will soon become one of your favourite products on earth.

I'm on with my training now, though still without a confirmed place - I am hopefully of getting one in the next few weeks. Ran my fastest 13.1 miles on Sunday, though nearly died doing it. I have felt quite good Monday and Tuesday which is very different from the half marathons I did a couple of years ago. I have three target times in my head for the marathon already, a dream time, realistic challenge and a happy to accept time. Maybe if you set something like that it'll help focus the mind.

Don't want to hijack your thread Rookie, but Kin, are you not wanting to do your big run at the time of the Silverstone run? When I first looked at the dates these two didn't seem to fit with what I expected.

[kinboshi]

Nothing stopping me doing Silverstone in the morning and then doing a second run later in the day.

[Linux]

Nothing stopping me doing Silverstone in the morning and then doing a second run later in the day.

[  ] silverstone is in the morning

[kinboshi]

Nothing stopping me doing Silverstone in the morning and then doing a second run later in the day.

[  ] silverstone is in the morning

Starts at noon - that's near enough morning and leaves time for an evening run at 6 or 7.

[ ] I knew it started at that time.
[X] They usually start half marathons at about 10am

[Linux]

Nothing stopping me doing Silverstone in the morning and then doing a second run later in the day.

[  ] silverstone is in the morning

Starts at noon - that's near enough morning and leaves time for an evening run at 6 or 7.

[ ] I knew it started at that time.
[X] They usually start half marathons at about 10am

Fancy a last longer? my target is 4miles

[Graham C]

Good luck Rookie!

[byronkincaid]

aiming to run a marathon was good for me cos it motivated me to get out of the house and any exercise is better than sitting in front of a computer eating doughnuts but I then found out that running long distances is not actually that good for you. most people would be better off joining a crossfit style gym imo although there are not that many of them in the UK atm.

if you scroll down to "Fringe Athletes" on this link it explains more

http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/Foundations.pdf

I have just signed up for this course

http://www.stemlerfit.com/page9.htm

GL whatever you choose to do.

[MC]

Good luck with this man...

I'm impressed by anyone who would even think about running a marathon, sounds so tough, hope the training goes well!

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Thanks guys.

The run to the shop is just under 4 miles all round. I managed to get there in 20 mins without stopping but on the way back it was a stop/start mission which ended with a rather large hill.

Got back within 50 minutes but was shattered LOL. A long way to go me thinks.

[Linux]

Good luck with this rookie, have you checked out nike+. Its good for mapping out routes and getting accurate distances, you can then record thhem on a spreadsheet or something.

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/index.jhtml