A week to go until blast off.

Out for my "long" run today...still only 9 km but enough for my legs. Amazing the number of "good mornings" you get. Did a new undulating route as a jog and ended up running along roads, footpaths across fields, cobbles and along the top of a golf course finishing with a prom run. Parkgate has a bizarre promenade. The tide rarely comes in and we are left with marshland...hence lots of mozzies and bugs. Didn't eat any today but if I do lose any further weight may consider running like a basking shark.






No change in blood blister. Can you use slugs like leeches ? Will have to check that out.

Now finally beginning to ask for donations but just enough to get me started as I need a steady stream to keep coming in. Started looking into getting some Moo cards printed ...whole new world this.

My first 10k fun run.

On Sunday I completed my first 10k run in under 53 minutes in Hoylake. A brilliant event and all for a good cause "The Wednesday Special Needs Club" in Hoylake. www.wsnc.co.uk

I have been training hard to get some miles into my legs for the start of my challenge as I may need to average around 15-20 miles a week which, for a fairly inexperienced runner, is beginning to look a bit daunting. I am averaging 10-12 miles a week at the moment so I need to keep training.
Have my first blood blister, a small one fortunately. I suppose this will be par for the course now.

Went out for my first training run since the 10k tonight approx 4 miles on undulating paths/ roads including the Wirral Way. Had to keep my head down to avoid swallowing too many mozzies - one of the pitfalls of running in Parkgate (mosquito heaven).

and there ends my very first blog post !!


Robert

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