Road to London 2009

[marathondan]

So, I’m going to run my second marathon.

Not a big deal for many residents of this virtual running club, but a medium-to-large one for me. It’s taken a couple of weeks to commit. Pretty much every time I’ve woken up in the last two weeks, either in the middle of the night (more often to deal with No. 1 daughter than No. 2 at the moment) or at the unholy hour of 0530 (to get a day’s work in and still get to pick Luke up from school), I’ve thought: "come on, life is hard enough, the last thing I need is to run a marathon."

But after a short time those feelings evaporate. The unthinkable becomes thinkable again. But still, there’s no burning desire to do it, either. I’ve run a few times recently, and not especially enjoyed it, although it’s nice to get re-acquainted with the post-run endorphin glow. I could definitely do without this. But it won’t be that bad, I will stretch myself and test myself and discover new things, and it will be a great journey, even if the novelty factor isn’t there this time.

And if I can raise a couple of grand for charity, for about 75 hours work (excluding logging and blogging :o), then that’s good work to be doing. No-one said work is meant to be easy, or (always) fun.

So here I go. I’m starting to feel settled with the decision.