Hi,

Well the first couple of weeks into training have gone well, despite having to run in the dark, the wet and the cold! Currently I’m running 5 days a week and totalling just over 30 miles a week.

Certainly one highlight from the last couple of weeks was a Thursday night club run, we meet at a local sports centre and do our pre run warm up outside, on this particular night it started to hail and hail hard! 30 members outside with no cover getting pelted by hail the size of marbles, crazy… runners are truly a strange breed.

I’ve been posting my routes via facebook using the garmin device I have which tracks my run via GPS. (see my facebook account)

Nick (my training partner) and I discovered a new game which tests the accuracy of the device, basically we find a big field or open space and spell out a rude word, just like sky writing but on the ground. Nick is off on holiday soon so I’ve set him a challenge to ‘ground write’ a rude word on that continent.

Ground writing, seriously it’s the next big thing!