It gives me a sense of enormous well-being

(Thanks to Blur for the title)

Brit-pop is making me happy atm. Might be something to do with memories of being 13/14/15. That said, I was a very unhappy 13/14/15 year old, so maybe I just wish I wasn't getting old.

Anyhoo, I've decided to actually make use of this space on a (hopefully) regular basis, as something of a journal of my (second, perhaps annual) attempt to run 13.1 miles without dying. Also known as the Great North Run

Last year's failed attempt is documented here, for those of you that weren't paying attention :p

There's a bit of psychological stuff about running which may or may not get a look in, but basically I want to keep track of how far I've run, count up the total miles training, sort of thing, and just out of curiosity the nunber of calories burned during training (mapmyrun.com gives you loads of info like that).

Inevitably I'll be griping about being in pain as and when I get injured (given my track record - no pun intended - that's likely).

Not like anybody reads this shit anyway...

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Unless I've miscounted there are 18 weeks and 6 days until the Run. I haven't miscounted though ;-)

Date of Run: 3 May 2010
Distance: 4.11 Miles
Calories Burned: 578

Total distance run: 13 Miles (counting miles run before today)
Calories Burned: 1729

Oh and in case you're wondering, this is what a 9.6 mile run looks like (the route I did on 13 Sept last year - 7 days before the run - and somehow entered/saved on mapmyrun). I hope to be able to do that again by the end of June this year. I'm much fitter now than I was 12 months ago :)

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