So, after forswearing marathons after London in 2009, I find myself starting the sixteen week training for my eleventh, the Brighton marathon on 10 April 2011. It's good to be back in training, and even better to know that, now I work somewhere with showers, that training during the week is possible. I know that one of the reasons that London was so bloody in 2009 is that I trained mostly at weekends.
So I set out from work to the canal. My instructions were to run a slow 2 miles, and I think I can say I achieved that. In fact, I paused to help a man who had fallen over on the ice by the side of the canal. I think there was no major damage done. As I helped him to his feet he told me that he had been, until quite recently a basketball player, but was now an old man who had to be helped up by strangers. I knew how he felt.
Time: 22:42
Distance: 2.03
Pace: 11.12 (but I see that I took around two minutes being a Good Samaritan and my moving pace was a rather better 9:58)
See the full details here at Garmin Connect: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/60207241
