So I’m sick again. Yup.

I’m truly quite concerned that this is probably a sign that I should be making more drastic changes to my lifestyle. I can’t remember the last sustained period of good health in the past 6 months – although all of my visits to the doctor suggest I’m fine and I’ve had my flu jab so I guess it could just be bad luck.

Anyway back to the training. As my last few posts may have already made apparent; my training plan has completely come off its rails and given I’ve only got less than three months left im not really sure if I can realistically finish this marathon inside of 6 hours. Still – No sense in giving up now.

The illness has made running a challenge but I did manage to clock a 10k distance on my first ever Christmas day run (inspired by Dharmesh of course). At this point I’m just trying to get a bit more mileage back into my legs and have also been doing some free weight training whilst I’m still unable to go to the gym.

New goals? 15k in January, 25k by the end of February and a total marathon time of 5.5 hours.

Logic: 7+ hours? Why even bother training, I could probably do that at a brisk walk (still an achievement given the sheer distance involved but hardly worth the effort…)

6+ hours? Decent effort but really doesn’t feel like a good return on almost 8 months of training (however undisciplined)

5+ hours? So so happy at this point. To go from a non runner to this kind of performance with all the setbacks ive had I would just be so happy.

Below 5? Dream on Fatboy. That option went out the window after my second setback….