OK so this is a blog tracking my progress training for the Edinburgh Marathon in May 2011. I’m entered so there’s no backing out now. If you’re reading this you probably know me, but I’ll say something about who I am and why I’m running just for the record – my future self will enjoy having the stats to look back on.
Vital statistics: 21, male, 195cm (ish), 70-80kg (depending on how much change I’ve got).
I’m running because 1) my dad wants to run a marathon before he dies, so I thought someone should go round and help the paramedics when they have to cart him away if he doesn’t quite succeed. At the same time I thought of 2) raising money for Crohn’s and Colitis UK, a charity helping people with IBDs, like me – I’ve suffered from Crohn’s disease for 7 years. Only recently has it come under enough control that I could even contemplate running any distance.
I would never have described myself as a runner before this. In fact, nobody would have described me as a runner before this [bad joke about the Odyssey]. My dad has run for a fair few years, but the only running I ever did was the warm-up before football, and even that was a challenge. However that doesn’t seem to be a barrier for entering a marathon. If we go back to April 2010, when a great friend of mine ran the Paris marathon (in 4 hours), you’d find us standing on the sidelines, cheering on the crowds at the 5 kilometre mark. The race was full of people who seemed never to have run 5k before, so dad turned to me and said “Hey, I reckon I could do this!” And that’s how we ended up, months later, signing on the dotted line for the Edinburgh marathon.
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