Running from Zombies

I watched Run, Fatboy, Run again the other night (highly recommended if you haven’t seen it) and it made me think about marathon training. Now everyone knows that you can’t train for a marathon in 3 weeks, especially if you’re out of shape and haven’t run before, but I suppose you can get away with it when you’re making a movie.

For me, the idea of running a marathon crossed my mind a number of times back when I started running, but as much as I might have liked the idea of it, I knew that I would never be able to. Back then 3k was a good run for me and attempting a 5k would leave me gasping. 42.16k was impossible. Marathons were for other people, the ones that didn’t have asthma. The most I thought I could ever hope for would be to do a half, and that was so far into the future it didn’t even warrant thinking about.

Fast forward 22 months to Sunday 22nd. Running in the morning I was suddenly confident that I would be able to do a marathon one day (though this may have had something to do with the fact that I had only run 2km at the time). My new plan is to do a half in 2011 and then a marathon before I turn 30. Optimistic? Maybe, but then everyone needs a goal.