The French Alps

I am in a ski resort called Morzine :) Having the most wonderful time.
I have done 2 runs so far!!! Just to set the scene for you:

It is -10 degrees!!!
We are in the mountains - so hills everywhere

That said - it is stunning to run surrounded by mountains, and once I have warmed up (which takes about 15mins in to the run), it is wonderfully refreshing and invigorating.

The hills are brilliant training for me - I hate hills and find them extremely difficult, but after 2 weeks of this I should have improved on hill running.

Today is a rest day and I can tell you it is much needed. I am trying out snowboarding - decided to give the ski's a rest....snowboarding is tough tough tough. So lovely to have a rest today!

Talk later
Mary
xxx

London!!!

Right, so for the next 2 weeks I am going to be doing my training in Europe :)
I ran in Hyde Park - London this morning. Sooooo lovely, and also very encouraging as I ran a lot faster than I do in Nairobi due to the altitude - felt great. It was 5 degrees celcius, but the sun was shining so perfect (apart from a rather strong wind in some places).
Met lots of joggers (which is not often the case when Alison and I are running in Nairobi) - and watched people walking their gorgeous doggies which cheered me on my way.
I missed you Alison!!!

If we ever want to do another marathon - let's go for the London one: Nice and flat and lower altitude than Nairobi, so we can shave some minutes off our time :)

Talk later

Maryxxx

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

xxx

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