Monday January 14th 2008

This is the start of my raw food and running blog! And, guess what? No running today.

My London marathon training begins in earnest this week and today just happens to be a rest day, nothing wrong with that! I have just received my 13-week training plan from my coach Josh Scully

OK so why the rest day today. Well, I ran in a local 6.8km race yesterday and I have decided to just do some weights and core work instead.

After finally throwing off the marathon voodoo in December last year (first completed marathon in 3:39:18 with no cramp, albeit only run at long run pace). For details of how I got rid of the curse read It is all about the protein stupid.

Now that I know why my legs kept breaking down during marathons and some long runs, my revised goals for London are as follows, times are in order of preference (dreams):

• 2:58 (automatic qualification good for age when I am 18-40 - only until November 2009 :)
• 3:00 (calculated from my best unofficial 10k time of 38:28)
• 3:07:30 (calculated from my best official 10k time of 39:59)
• 3:15 (automatic qualification good for age when I am 41-59 - yippee can't wait!)
• Promote the raw vegan food "Powered By Raw Food"
• Raise funds for Scope (by Gold Bond entry charity) http://www.justgiving.com/londonmarathon2008scope

I am not sure what shape or form my blog is going to take going forwards. This will do for now. I won't post every day, for every day details of my training click here.

Today I ate the following Raw Food...

Breakfast - pomello
Lunch - bananas, dates, prunes
Dinner - green papaya, sprouted mung beans, lettuce, alfalfa, sprouted peanuts, tomatoes, celery & cucumber
Snacks - dates, apples

I've been reading...

"Why We Run: A Natural History"; Bernd Heinrich.
Written by a zoologist and 'successful' runner. Excellent.