Meeting with Marie Curie

I met with Marie Curie Cancer Care Community Fundraiser Manager Clair Cusack and Louisa Trunks today to finalize the fundraising plans and activities. It was a really useful discussion with lots of ideas being bounced backwards and forwards. In future you'll find me in lots of supermarkets across Bristol where I'll be doing fundraising activities between the vegetable section and the biscuits.

Marathon Tips

Even amateur and fun-runners whose only ambition is to finish the marathon need to put in some serious hard work and training. The advice of the London marathon medical team is that you should be able to run 15 miles comfortably three weeks prior to your race.

More exercise

There is plenty of good advice available about how runners should train. It is handy to learn a few new words from the long-distance runner’s vocabulary. I will be featuring a new word each week as part of my blog posts along with some training tips.

Periodisation

Basically this is the one-day-hard, one-day-easy training idea. This is based on the fact that muscles need to recover after training and some down-time really helps this to occur. As the runner becomes more experienced, they usually increase this to one week easy one week hard, then by month and so on.

Welcome to the Blog

I have now registered for my first marathon – the New York Marathon 2008.

Running a marathon has always been an ambition of mine. I love a challenge and I love running. My furthest run to date is the Bristol Half Marathon.

In this weblog I am going to chronicle my preparations and training. I hope Marathon Blog will help other first time Marathon Runners.