No Turning Back Now!!!

Registration for the Marathon opened on the 15th of February and Alison and I were among the 1st to register :) So it's official - no turning back now. We are fully signed up to do this :)

Mary

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Busy Busy

It has been a busy week so we have not had time to post any news - but I can assure you we are still on track with our training and have done our 3 sessions for the week and today we are doing a long road run. Thankfully it is a cloudy day , as usually we do our runs in the early morning to avoid the heat, but Alison was away over the weekend and gets back at lunchtime so we will do our run this afternoon.

Just for your information, all the training manuals say you should always run at the same time as the event will be - in our case this is 7am - hence why we run early mornings. Its gets your body used to running at that time - just a bit of interesting running info for you all :)

On another note - I am hoping to see more posts from our friends in the next few weeks as the training goes up a gear this week and in the weeks to follow, so some encouragement will be much appreciated.

Love for now.

Mary

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Week 6

OK.. it's been some days since we updated! Hopefully the steam is not running out ;-)

Training schedule went a little disarray due to not being in Nairobi (Mary) but we tried to make up for it in advance!

Once again, travel this weekend for me, but will do my best to catch up! I had 3 days rest and did a 25min run on Tuesday and it felt like an hour run, so needless to say the trick is do not rest for too long - once momentum has kicked in, just keep going!!

Rest day today, although I'll cross train, going to try out the gym facility at Muthaiga Club this afternoon.

Have a fab rest of the week. Alison xxx

8th February

Woke up feeling not much like doing anything, but leaped on the treadmill and thank goodness I did, the feeling after is so much better!

I think it helped that Jimi was working out with me. Makes a difference to have company.

Rest day tomorrow YAAAAAYYYYYY ;-)

Alison xx

Sunday 7th February

What an amazing run.... feeling much stronger for some reason :-) but have been all the wine at Anne-maries on the saturday before!! :-)

Anyway, ran over our time and felt great!

Thank you Mary, would not be doing this without your solid commitment and support!

Alison xx

Week 5: Session 15 of our Training Programme

I can't believe we are already in to our 5th week of training - "time flies when you're having fun"!

Good session today - it was an easy run after yesterdays slightly longer one.

I think I am actually beginning to feel stronger and fitter :)

I had a major attack of nerves last night as Carey and I were chatting about the marathon and remembering the times I have done it before (the half marathon)! Gosh it was exhausting - and now we need to double that!

I didn't train properly for those ones, and I have complete faith in the programme we are following now, so whenever I get the nerve attacks, I just need to remember that we have a great programme which we are completely dedicated to and all will be fine!!!! Aghhhhhhh!!!!

Talk Later.

Mary

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Week 4: Session 14 of our Training Programme

We had a wonderful road run around Lavington this morning - it was cloudy so it was lovely and cool!

We enjoyed it so much we went over the set running time.

There were a few killer hills but I believe we are getting stronger so they weren't too horrific.

Running 1st thing in the morning is such a wonderful way to start the day :)

Talk Later

Mary

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P.S

Wandia we promise to sign off from now on ;)

Yaaaay rest day! Thank goodness, after all those vodka tonic's last evening!! ;-)

Week 3: Session 13 of our Training Programme

A lovely 25min run - very easy pace. I took it extra easy as I have 18 holes of golf to play this afternoon.

Maryxxx

Hello!!! I'm alive!!! Sorry Mary... the lonely blogger :-)

Yes indeed what a grand few weeks it has been! Tons of fun tho' and enjoying every second!

Will be updating as we go along!

Nimu thank you for the great poem ;-) I've not stopped having hope that you will join us!!

Week 4: Session 12 of our Training Programme

I kept finding a million other things to do other than run this morning - but I did it and it was great. Feel like I am getting fitter and stronger every day which is so encouraging :)

Talk later.

Mary

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1st Feburary 2010

Week 4 Session 10 of the programme:

An easy 20 min run - went well. I wasn't feeling too well so took it easy.

31st January 2010

Today was Week 3 Session 10 of our training. We did a road run - found a great route - lots of hills so great practice for the main event. We did the same route last week, but the other way round. We improved on our time so we very chuffed :)