It's all down hill from here!

There's been a slight delay in blogging due to a combination of work, technological breakdown, fire & flood (at the BT exchange) and some lovely Easter socialising.  Despite all this fun, frivolity and biblical sounding external factors the training has continued.  The Sunday before Easter I successfully completed my longest run - a mere little jog of 20 miles as my brother would have it.  It wasn't fast, it wasn't mega slow and I would probably be safe to say my most sensible run to date. 

Here are some of the things I noticed whilst I ran and ran and ran doing my best impression of Forrest Gump possible without a beard:

• The streets of London really are lined with gold.  Okay - I exaggerate but they do appear to be pretty much littered with pennies.  They are meant to be lucky and I've struggled with the inner me to restrain myself from stopping, bending down and pocketing the shiny discs. Oh that sounds like marathon training is like a computer game with real life players!
• The number of people who drank too much on Saturday night is really quite high.  This is also like a computer game where runners have to dodge the piles of puke on dry Sunday mornings.  It leaves me feeling better that I didn't drink the night before and truly dedicated to my marathon cause.

Having completed 20 miles my mileage now starts to decrease which meant I could ease up a bit this weekend and I have a sensitve muscle in my leg which has required me to take it slowly.

The weekend brought Easter and a whole host of Easter jokes which were kindly supplied by Relate for Parents and Families which added to a very funny time I had with my own family on Saturday where we painted hard boiled eggs and rolled them down a surfboard in lieu of a hill.

So with mileage maxed, it feels like it's all downhill to the marathon which for a runner is not such a bad thing!

I'm nearly there!!