...and then there were two

[marathondan]

Yesterday I received an email titled "Flora London Marathon | Entry is now open!". Today I will go out in search of Marathon News. I can't say yet whether I'm going to do it, but more than a hint of the buzz from 2005 is coming back to me. To be part of a pageant with 35,000 performers and a million spectators...

Or to put it another way, as many have said before, it's just about the only sport in which everyone competes in the same field as the world champion.

On the running front, I've managed three or four short runs in the last couple of months. I did think about doing the Burnham Beeches Half after all, as Naomi is settling into an evening routine and I have an hour or so per day (sometimes) to call my own. But I have to confess that I'm having too much fun doing family stuff to apply myself.

The Windsor half has been full for some time, so in order to fulfil my promise of doing two of the four local halfs, I'd better enter Marlow and Henley in Oct and Nov. I've since also discovered Wycombe in July, so next year a really nice goal would be to do the full set of Wycombe-Burnham-Windsor-Marlow-Henley, all decent local HMs and arranged monthly from July to November. That would tide me over between London 2007 and training for 2008!

Ah well, it's nice to have some idea of where you want to go - even if you end up somewhere else.

That really is a crap philosophy. That's why I'm not a philisopher.