So the upside of last week's DNF is that I've already been running this week, and will be out with the SWAC mob for the usual Sunday morning run tomorrow. Still had some time to fill though, and have spent most of the week plotting my route to Berlin in August, working up a plan, and slotting in races to keep things focused and interesting. The main races look like: Greater Manchester Marathon, not especially inspiring but timing is good and it's local; Liverpool Spring 10k, running with some of the guys from work; Dukeries Ultra 30 miler, ran the 40 miler last year and had a blast, timing's perfect to be hitting 30 mile; LLLR 6 Hour Challenge, loved this 2 years ago when I placed 3rd, and should be my last long run before Berlin; Round Reservoir Marathons, 2 back to back marathons 3 weeks before Berlin - perfect! Having just gotten that lot sorted, I got an interesting email from the organisers of the Bolton Hill Marathon this morning. They're putting on a 5 day sufferfest of 5 marathons, involving going up and down Rivington Pike 40-odd times for 30,000ft of climbing - equivalent to Mount Everest. In November. Thought about it for 5 minutes and signed up - gonna be hellish and will be tricky childcare-wise running the first 3 of them Wed-Fri, but figured there's some time to get that sorted:-)
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