Growing old disgracefully by Growing_old_disgracefully

July 2007. 51 years old, two stone overweight and I decide i'm going to run the London marathon ten years since my last jog, so this could be an interesting time.  My first run is less than one km and I feel as if i've just run the Comrades marathon 55 miler back in South Africa! I predict that the next few months up to 13th April 2008 won't be pretty!

09-02-2009. It's getting prettier so this needs changing. Lost almost 2 stone since starting training at end of June 2007 and am very happy with that. Fund-raising still continues to be the most difficult part of running the marathon. Running organised races to get times is proving difficult too so have to rely on mapping routes myself in the car or online and trusting that they are accurate reflections of distances, which i'm sure they are.

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