So far Catherine has been doing most of the training, she lives in North Stainley Yorkshire whilst i reside in Banbury Oxfordshire. Catherine since coming up with this crazy idea has thrown herself full force at the task, and as she has had to start from a base fitness level of 0 has done amazingly well, since the early summer she has trained very slowly and steadily with some fellow dog walkers to 12 miles. I on the other hand having already done the marathon thing swapped to triathlon, less boredom factor plus i couldn't swim so it was a bit of a laugh!!

Now however i have another new pair of running shoes and coupled with Catherines phone call yesterday about aiming for a 13 miler this weekend when she is down visiting, i thought it may be a good idea to try and run longer than my 4 mile jaunt ( i would like to take this opportunity to mention that the 4 miler is REALLY hilly, and i do hillsprint repititions too!!! phew)....  So how did i fair, well 8 miles in 1 hour 10 minutes is not bad for starters, so iam pleasantly optomistic for Saturday. Needless to say Catherine would like a slower pace which i will be only too happy to oblige with, but from here on in i think the bicycle will have to take a back seat!!  although looking at my time today i can heartily reccomend spinning!!!

Hello also to other Realbuzz bloggers that i have met with before in both New York and Chicago, i'm sure you are still running as you were all slightly madder than me, hopefully i will hear from you too.