7 days

This time next week we (god willing) will have finished our first marathon. Both of us are reasonably healthy and will take the start line....

I have taken the drinking is better approach for training and as such i am in great beer drinking form and my running form is coming a distant second. Kat, apart from shin splints for a couple of weeks is in good form and should kick my a$$. Here are my predictions...

Kat - 3.23
Ben 3.47

You heard it here first.

Training Update

8 weeks to go.... yep 8 weeks till we run 42.2 km in Budapest. So far so so average, in fact i am concerned about it, Kat not so much she can run and run, me i gotta work for it. I'm struggling with the weekday running as i'm away for work etc but Kat runs to and from work so does a fair no. of k's during the week.

We knocked off a 2 hour 35 run in Jersey and managed a 2 hour 45 min run today so we are not too far away from being able to 'finish' but gone are the goal times and prospects of finishing in 3.15 , anything under 4 would be gold. however just getting over the finish line will be reward enough.

On a brighter note my work pants are loose again and my belt is no longer at risk of going to the next notch, which is a surprise considering the amount of beer / whiskey and wine i have consumed while away.