Tokyo Marathon

Not sure how to fit everything into 24 hours these days.  You would think with Christmas coming things would get quieter but that does not appear to be the case.

A few weeks ago, on 4^th December to be precise I was up at 4am to get to the starting line of the Singapore Half Marathon.   I ran a disgusting 2 hours 40 minutes and had a bad calf cramp which meant that I walked the last 4 kilometer.  Since then I have been hitting the gym fairly hard to try and loose some of the excess weight I carry.  This involves getting up at 5:30am each morning and going to the gym.

I received a note from Brian Keane (now of Meryl Lynch, formerly of Deutsche Bank) who completed the full New York Marathon in a respectable 3 hours 53 minute – shit what a goal to live up too.

I did a tour of the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi and Kolkata last week.  Actually if anyone ever tells you to go to the IIT in Kolkata tell them to go jump as there isn’t one.  The IIT is in Kharapur which is a horrible 3 hour drive from Kolkata.  Anyway was able to do three 10 kilometer training runs whilst in India and not get the Mumbai belly bug. BTW – refectory food has definitely not improved since I was last at a University.