Story
On July 1st I will starting a month of marathoning raising funds for MND Scotland. This challenge follows a year of marathoning from November 2015 to October 2016, a marathon a month. This year however I wanted (sticking with the 12 theme) to run 12 marathons in 1 month. Why? Because I can.
The challenge for July is 12 full marathons throughout the month; some solo, most self-set, 26.2mile routes that will push me harder than any challenge I have set myself before; physically and mentally.
I will run a total of 314.4 miles in marathons alone, and potentially further as I will need to keep moving in between. This is no small challenge and although I have over twenty marathons under my belt already, I know that this distance will certainly take a toll on my body, and mind.
I am often asked how you train for something like this, and to be honest, I don’t know if what I have done will be enough. What I do know is that now the month is nearly upon us, I need to do my best to make sure that I stay in as good a shape as possible. I have trained on tired legs since the end of last year. I took a month “off” with reduced miles last November at the end of the 12 in 12 and in December began a run streak (running every day), initially just for that month to see if I could do it. I could, and realised that this would be a great way to make sure my body can run on tired (pardon the pun). With a minimum of 3 miles covered every day I have integrated this into a marathon training plan, that I hope will see me through July. have time for injury either so making time is key.
The support that I have had while I have been doing this has been overwhelming, from friends and strangers and strangers that have become friends I have been touched on so many occasions by people that have been willing to share their own stories of how their lives have been affected by MND. While of course I wanted to raise as much money as I can for the charity, raising awareness and getting conversations started has been incredible too.
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