Just back from fab holiday,  but more of that later I hope!!   Had hoped to keep my blog up-to-date while away – good practice for next year but as you can see I’ve not posted anything since June – oops.   In my defence (or maybe I’m just making excuses) – poor wifi at times and when I was with my friends,  wine and blethering took precedence over blogging.   I have typed quite a bit but just not published it yet – decided to do the last few weeks on mass – which wasn’t a good move – always on the catch up – a bit like trying to do all my homework on the bus to school.   Anyway home now and will hopefully post soon about the last few weeks but here is today’s update.

So lots of walking while I was a way and quite a few short but tough bike rides but only one run and that was just under 6 miles and just over 3 weeks ago – prior to going away lots of 3 mile runs and on the the 24th of June I did 12 and a wee bit miles.   So what???   What’s the point???   Well the point is that on Sunday the 25th of September I am doing the Berlin Marathon and I need to up the miles,  kind of pronto but without knackering myself in the process – I also need to keep track of my passport and make sure I actually make it to Berlin this year!

So the plan is this – aim for 13 miles today and over the next 5 weeks increase my long runs by 2 miles each week – in theory get to 23 miles and the rest will be plain sailing!!   When has a marathon ever been plain sailing??

Well I did just over 12 miles today – should have done a wee bit more but this took me to my front door and I needed a loo stop so that was enough for today – so based on the plan above hopefully training will take me to 22 miles!!