Tokyo Marathon

I read somewhere about how taking the Glucosamine supplment can help with ligament problems. I found some in the local pharmacists vitamin supplments made by a company called “nature made”. It may help with torn knees but have a quick rummage through the internet for information first.

A few days before christmas my london based boss told me that he is going to reshuffle the team around in Asia. I opted to take redundancy over moving to Singapore. So this year means I also have to run around looking for another job. Anyone hear of any openings in market data, IT systems consulting, project management or Systems auditing, please give me a shout.

I have a printout of the Hal Higdons marathon training schedule affixed to the side of my desk. It stands prominent and pride of place approximately half a metre from my eyes.  The schedule is made up of boxes which represent a day. Inside the box is written the number of miles I should run. For everyday I run, I paint the box red. For every day I rest I paint the box blue.

At the moment the schedule is very very blue. In fact it is totally blue for the last 6 bloody weeks. Absolutely bugger all running done. i should be at the stage of running 16 miles (27 km) on Saturday. I dont have excuses just memories of chest infection, exams and plain ordinarily idleness.

What can I do ? Any advise would be greatfully received.

the exam is now over. The chest infection is gone

but

to celebrate I drank loads of wine, followed by hangover, followed by another blasted cold !! So the 20km run on Sunday didnt materialise.

My training has gone to pot. Having suffered from a chest infection since coming back from Hong Kong I have gone two/three weeks without exercise or running a single metre. That is, apart from running for the bus.

The problem is timing. Although the chest problem is about cured, I have to concerntrate on an exam this saturday morning.

But I will gear up for a 20km run on SUnday just for the hell of it

Not a post of any great importance but its just the first time I’ve broken 50 minutes for 10K and I’m a tired but happy camper. My time was a humble 49 mins 48 seconds and 653 calories were burned.

Am pretty pleased with myself. Yesterday did 16km – made up of 10km run, 2,5 km walk then 3.5 run. Then later in the evening ran another 5km in just under 30 minutes.

But today I have a damn cold