Day one...

This blog is created at Chano's request...your wish is my command, sir!

And it all came about from the hike to Lolo last week. I was talking about going for one last marathon ( the last one I ran in was a long, long time ago and with injuries etc over the years so I gave it up and only ran short races thereafter). But Chano is a bit of  a firestarter, asked me how many events I intended to run in this year, so I said three, starting with the Energizer on April 17th.Then Sean and Ms Wong got dragged into it, and here we are ...

Started googling up some programs to run easy ( my motto)  and found this : Run Injury Free with Jeff Galloway

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/about_jeff/index.html

Quite like it. It's quite similar to the program I first used when I started running marathons, and It slowly peaks you for the big event. Not only that the training schedule suits all of us. A 10k first (Energizer Run ), three months later a half marathon and end the year with the Big Event.

I have never been one of those who is flat out after a race, I run easy and just look to qualify comfortably. I know I am not fast enough to be a top finisher, so why get injured ?

I really do not care if every man ( or woman ) and their dogs , cats whatever finish in front of me so long I don't get injured and hopefully qualify. Its all about the fun, companionship and all the good stuff that comes when you run with friends.

On the race events ... am rather keen on doing the Laguna Phuket  for the Half Marathon (June 12th 2011) http://www.phuketmarathon.com/ and Singapore Standard Chartered ( December 4th 2011) http://www.singapore180.com/events/singapore-marathonfor the Full Marathon - we'll see...