Next Week's Zuppa!

Starting to get a good wee collection of soups in my freezer for my lunches at the coalface. This is the soup I shall make tomorrow. You really cannot beat a plate of hame made soup and a bit of breed for lunch, especially if it sticks tae yer ribs!

Another new member to the "Pack" this morning, so 5 of us hit the road. Nice 6 miler at a very relaxed pace. Perfect recovery run for me although a bit hilly but I love the hills! I have decided to set myself a long term goal of running a marathon. I am more of a country bumbkin than a city gent so I have decided on entering the Brathay Windermere marathon which will be in May 2014. I figure that this will give me about 16 months to train for it. So from now on Monday will be my marathon specific training run aka the long run. For such a hilly course, I am thinking of 10'00" mile pace so will build up the miles week on week at this pace. My aim is to complete it - don't think a sub 4 hour is realistic for first marathon.

First tentative steps to my goal start on Monday!