a.m. 5 miles easy along the canal. It's tough trying to run when you're fat!
Anyway, I had this great idea this morning. Guess what? I'm going to share it with you. It's the Tralee Marathon on Saturday and I've decided that I'm going to get out and about on the course and hide behind bushes and chuck stones at people as they run along the road:) Great fun.
Imagine Jake and Riley and the Kenyan fella deep in concentration. Jake smiling to himself - that drink that I pretended to drink from and passed on to them, will have their stomachs turning like washing machines in a minute and then I can stride away to glory:) Thwack! A stone in the head:) Great stuff!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch in the quasi real world of Bam, I was thinking about my goals and I've decided to alter my plans slightly. I might just try and break 3:30 for the marathon. Only joking. I'm going to stick with the 16 mins for the 5k in Sept and 15:30 around March time next year. But rather than pushing on for 14:50, I'm going to give the 2014 Cork Marathon a crack. I think I need to get one under my belt. Cork's a toughish course but it's not as hard as Tralee. There is one (The Killarney Marathon) that's a bit like all the Utah marathons but I couldn't live with myself if I ran it:). So that's it: aim for 15:30 for 5k by March next year and then aim for a sub 2:30 at Cork in June. Secretly, I want to break 2:28. The Irish record is 2:28:XX in the 45-49 age group. That would be cool, breaking the Irish record in my first marathon:)
After that, I'll push on and aim for the 14:50 as part of the prep work for going sub 2:20 for the marathon in the autumn of 2015. That's the new plan.
Of course, the success of the new plan is contingent on not getting caught this Saturday. I doubt I'd be able to train in prison:) | 