Birmingham Half Marathon 2011 is open for entries now. It's part of the "BUPA Great run series" now so is called The Great Birmingham Run. For those who did it last year the route looks the same.£30 entry so the goody bag at the end better be good!http://www.greatrun.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=14
But how am I supposed to get fit doing nothing?!Got the proper running socks (good old Sports Direct for the Nike elite and standard running socks) but still feeling the sole is very hard through the foot (especially the heel) and like the shoe is rubbing up the inside of both feet where I guess my foot should ideally not be quite so sunken.Got free delivery if I order another pair from sportshoes.com within the next couple of weeks. Just realised if I'd gone to London Marathon Store in Covent Garden today that it was a Saucony ShoeLab Day and could have got my feet and trainers assessed by them. D'oh!
No marathons for me yet, but tracking my runs I find I've done 49 miles this month. For a guy who started the year an unfit fat bastard, I'm extremely chuffed.
I finished our huge charity challenge on Friday which saw us complete...April 3rd - Taunton marathonApril 10th - Brighton marathonApril 17th - London marathonMay 19/20 - Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon in 23 hours 25 minutesJune 1/2/3 Coast to coast along Hadrian's Wall - we covered over 89 miles.We are trying to raise monty for childrens charities at www.justgiving.com/phoenix-challengeI went to the doctors this morning as I had severe pains in my left knee on day 2 at Hadrian's Wall. I've been referred to a consultant with probable cartlidge damage so I may have a few numbers available to anyone who fancies taking up a marathon / half marathon this year.
Was running along the cut in Brum on Saturday and bumped into the Wolverhampton to Brum half Marathon, the leader must has won by about 10 mins he was going at a fair old lick.