February Fighting Fit?

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Not too many weeks now to the Canberra marathon on April 19, and my training hangs in the balance. At best I'm getting out twice a week, but my long run (such as today) is no more than 15km, which is not enough. I do have a couple of options further out than April 19 should Canberra fall through, but it's a race I'd really like to run, so I'm not quite giving up just yet.

Actually, today's 15km really wasn't too bad, so if I can ramp up the long 'un fairly soon to 20 - 25km I may still be OK. But two runs per week really isn't cutting it I'm afraid. Still, there's 9 weeks to go and I'm still quite fit aerobically, so maybe it'll be OK on the day.

The weather here is phenomenally weird. Terrible bushfires to the south (still burning - 181 confirmed dead so far with many people missing presumed dead), and terrible floods to the north. Here in Sydney we've been inundated with several days of soaking rain, but nothing too severe. Not good running weather however, so today's run was done on the treadmill.

I do think though that I could probably run better if I had one of those spiffing RC running vests... you listening Sweder?

And remind me to keep my running shoes away from this guy... why do you suppose he does this?