My training my first marathon by stephen1976

Sorry for delay in updating My Blog

But it has been a long road,

You see it all went wrong, I went to a party and stupidly had one smoke, you guessed it,  I was hooked like glue again. For 2 months I have been fighting to break the disgusting habit.

Then just when I  thought I had  broke the habit again , I was hit by the worst running injury,  that I  have  ever had, the doctor informed me that I  had torn my calf muscle away  from my shin bone, I could hardly walk.

Well that was it, I screamed “what is the point in trying to get fit, I grab the first packet of fags I could get my hands on!  Very stupid, and I should have known better! So for the last 6 weeks I  have spent a considerable amount of time recovering from the injury  and fighting the nicotine gremlins.

I kept saying to myself   ‘I am not training if I am smoking’ and finally last week I kicked the habit again, I hope for the very last time.  Well to my surprise on Thursday I came home from work,  only to find that I had been lucky enough to secure a place in the London marathon.

Well I can tell you this,  it has made me so determined in my training that I  have not even thought about a cigarette, well  until I wrote this. Even now,  I can honestly say that I don’t even have the slight urge to have one,  My mind is totally focused on training and completing the marathon.

I sure that 22/04/2012 is going to be an amazing day.

Today was my first run since my injury. Only 5k but it felt so good.