Tokyo Marathon

A colleague of mine knowingly informed me that this week I should be running 30km.

“Once I had done this” he noddingly said “I can ramp down the length of my runs”

With this knowledge firmly lodged in my brain I set off for the gymn. Quite prepared to hog the treadmill for 4 hours !! BTW they have instigated a new system at my gymn. They obviously ran out of patience with Oyajis hogging the machines for longer than the specified 20 minutes. The new system requires you to write down your starting time. The attendents can come round and throw you off if there are people waiting. Quite clever I thought.

Anyway I started my run and managed to clock up 10 km after 70 minutes. Not bad considering the amount of socialising I had been doing the night before. I had to stop after 10km. My knees started to talk to me. Rather than risk injury I stopped there.

Will try again on friday. If I knock up 20km then I am on the right track.