I’ve now settled on the Unionsmarathon as my aim for the next few months. I’ve been trying to find a marathon to run for ages and this one seems pretty convenient and hopefully quite pleasant. I have to admit that the training’s been pretty sporadic with no runs over 100 minutes in the past few months. Despite my tired legs from yesterday’s uphill race plus jog down the hill plus sprint at the end to catch the bus, I managed another 100 minutes today, bringing this week’s total to 4 and a half hours training. I’m hoping all of the exercise I get with Emma will stand me in good stead, but it’s a marathon not a buggy-pushing race!
Impressive running with the buggy - I found it so hard that I now do all my training before Darrell goes to work to avoid it (and I hate getting out of bed, so it’s some sacrifice!) What sort off running buggy do you have? And how to you manage hills?
We’ve got a Koolstride, which is very nice and light and easy to push, but we do tend to walk up hills. Emma’s objecting to being in the buggy for much longer than 40 minutes these days so I’m doing most of my running after she’s gone to bed. Dave won’t get up early enough to look after Emma for me to go before he goes to work!