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Road to London 2009
12-11-2008, 08:43 AM,
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Road to London 2009
So, I’m going to run my second marathon.

Not a big deal for many residents of this virtual running club, but a medium-to-large one for me. It’s taken a couple of weeks to commit. Pretty much every time I’ve woken up in the last two weeks, either in the middle of the night (more often to deal with No. 1 daughter than No. 2 at the moment) or at the unholy hour of 0530 (to get a day’s work in and still get to pick Luke up from school), I’ve thought: "come on, life is hard enough, the last thing I need is to run a marathon."

But after a short time those feelings evaporate. The unthinkable becomes thinkable again. But still, there’s no burning desire to do it, either. I’ve run a few times recently, and not especially enjoyed it, although it’s nice to get re-acquainted with the post-run endorphin glow. I could definitely do without this. But it won’t be that bad, I will stretch myself and test myself and discover new things, and it will be a great journey, even if the novelty factor isn’t there this time.

And if I can raise a couple of grand for charity, for about 75 hours work (excluding logging and blogging :o), then that’s good work to be doing. No-one said work is meant to be easy, or (always) fun.

So here I go. I’m starting to feel settled with the decision.
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Messages In This Thread
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 12-11-2008, 08:43 AM
Road to London 2009 - by Sweder - 12-11-2008, 11:58 AM
Road to London 2009 - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 09:07 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 13-11-2008, 10:41 AM
Road to London 2009 - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 11:14 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 17-11-2008, 08:16 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 17-11-2008, 09:54 AM
Road to London 2009 - by El Gordo - 18-11-2008, 09:02 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 18-11-2008, 10:02 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 18-11-2008, 01:10 PM
Road to London 2009 - by Sweder - 19-11-2008, 01:06 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 19-11-2008, 06:59 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 24-11-2008, 06:59 AM
Road to London 2009 - by El Gordo - 24-11-2008, 09:29 AM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 24-11-2008, 12:22 PM
Road to London 2009 - by marathondan - 15-12-2008, 10:50 AM

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