The realisation..

Last night I counted the days until the Gold Coast Airport Marathon.  The number of days until I am going to run further than I ever have even ever walked in one day.  It is fourteen weeks.  To be more precise, it is 98 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes from Right Now.  I wonder if there is a widget for that?  A countdown widget…  Anyway, I decided that "fourteen weeks" sounded like a good name for a new blog.  I think I need to keep my writing about my running separate from my writing about other stuff.  It is a metaphor for my life really.  Otherwise, running will completely consume me and I will possibly Lose the Plot in my Quest to finish my first marathon.  So, a new blog.  Besides, it seems that ever since I decided to follow my dream and start my journalism degree, I can't seem to stop writing!  I have written seven letters to friends this week, I have a journal I keep in my handbag and I now have two blogs.  It's like the floodgates have opened and I am making up for the past 30 years or so.

So, in an attempt to keep me disciplined and to share my feelings about training for this event (in case anyone is interested) I am going to try to blog a couple of times a week.  I will try to photograph something from my sessions each time too, to make it more interesting.  Like, today I am going to start with a photo of my watch, which I still am not yet sure how to use, despite having owned it for about two months.  This morning, for example, I forgot to press the "start" button.  Other times I press the wrong button in the wrong mode.  It was my present to myself for running last year's Gold Coast 1/2 Marathon in under two hours (1:53!!).