16 Weeks To Go

16 weeks until what???

16 weeks until we line up for our first marathon ever, that's right we made a pretty quick and sudden decision that we needed an event to train for and this is it. We miss competing and Ben's worried about joining the hundy club (and so he should be because there won't be a beach wedding next year if he's in the prestigious club!). So we picked our date (30th September) and then searched for a marathon on this day (marathons are huge on this side of the world, you could find one in Europe on any weekend you wanted).

We've entered the Budapest marathon as conveniently this is somewhere on our must travel list and its a bigun with an expected 4,500 marathoners taking part!

Normally you'd want around 20-24 weeks of dedicated running training but we wanted to race the 30th September so we can go and enjoy ourselves at Oktoberfest in Munich the following weekend! Smart logic, we know.

We did our first long run yesterday of 90 mins and are expecting to build that up to about 3 hrs over the coming months, as long as we don't fall apart before then which knowing us, is a real possibility so go on, start making bets on how many weeks we last! Ben already has a sore knee from yesterday and we have to look after ourselves since chiropractors cost around 60 quid a session...

We'll keep you posted on our training and smaller races we do before the big day.