A quarter marathon

This morning I ran 6.62 miles (10.65 km) - which is a little over a quarter of a marathon.  I was pretty pleased with my run, given that I chose a route with three hills (total 331') and it was the furthest I've run since the summer.  Despite this, there was a niggling thought in the back of my mind: the marathon with be another THREE laps again.  Sheesh, that's a long way!

However, I then realised my longest training run will be 18 miles, which is only three laps, not four.  So that's not so bad.... ;-)  The book assures me that if I follow the programme and run 18 miles in training I *will* be able to run the marathon.

It was quite mild out there today, although breezy.  After the rain of the last few days the park was very wet in places - but thankfully there was no rain for today's run.  The blisters are an on-going issue though, even though I wore the older trainers and my socks were dry.

Time to crack on with the Christmas preparations.