We have both signed up to run 21km ( that's about 13 miles) in the Zhengzhou-Kaifeng International Marathon on 27th March. 2011. In a month. Ah.
It's only a half marathon [he writes, hoping that by repeating it, it'll somehow get shorter] although, having spent the day discussing doing the 5km fun run, it wasn't until the last minute, sign-up sheets in front of us, we ticked the 'Half Marathon' box. Still, there's plenty of time to claim there's been an administrative error and switch to the short course. Either tha, or blame Andy for talking us into doing it - this will probably happen at around the 15km mark, anyway.
It's not a sponsored run, costs only 5GBP to enter AND you get a free t-shirt. I'll be honest, the t-shirt was a major incentive.
I've just got off the treadmill, which I have learnt will travel (so to speak) 5km in 37.5 minutes at what I thought was a sensible pace. I'd like to get the thing over with in 2 hours tops though, so I'll have to add a not-very-sensible pace to an already probably-not-very-sensible idea.
Along with observations about mad taxi drivers and near-destruction tuk tuks, I'm filing this in Life And Death On The Road!
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