107 miles and counting

So it's official, running has now taken over my life. Well, maybe not so much the running, but the thinking about it, the time spent arguing in my head trying to make myself go out running and then there’s the time spent worrying about what the hell I have agreed to do! Seriously, apart from the odd thought of Justin Timberlake and chocolate, there isn’t much room for anything else!

Thanks to my complete square-ness (resulting in all runs being logged on an iPhone app!) I have realised that I have now passed the 100 mile mark and after completing a nine mile run yesterday, I have now run a total of 107 miles. Having thought that seemed like quite a lot, it was only when I worked out that in total I will be doing 505 miles that it really has dawned on me that this is quite some undertaking!!

I was pretty sure by now that I would have lost at least two stone and have a washboard stomach, but alas, that has not transpired just quite yet! That being said, I am starting to enjoy it more and more, and although at times it is more the finishing I enjoy, with each week seeing me pass a new personal record, it is already feeling like quite an achievement!

To add to the nervousness, I have entered some actual training runs and races as practice – I mean, really, what kind of a way is that to spend a Sunday morning?! So if anyone is near Hemel on 30^th Jan and fancies a 12 mile canter let me know and there’ll be more dates to follow soon.

And should any of you want to part with some hard earned pennies (although maybe January isn’t the best month to ask!) here is my sponsorship page:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/AliceHarveylondonmarathon


Anyhow, I hope you are all surviving the January blues. Just think of the sight of me running along the canal in Paddington, unsurprisingly completely lost, to cheer yourselves up!