Races

As Christmas is approaching and everyone else seems to be eating lots of chocolate, it's becoming increasingly difficult to go out training and eat healthily.

To provide extra motivation, I've entered some races in the new year: half-marathons in Dover and Brighton, and I'm thinking about an off-road half-marathon in the New Forest.

The Dover Half-Marathon is on Sunday 15th February, so Soo and I will be spending Valentine's night in Dover. Which should be romantic.

Brighton is only a week later on 22nd February. I did this race a few years ago - in fact it was my first half-marathon. That was in 2006 and it was very wet and cold and windy. The half-marathon starts and finishes in the same place as the Brighton 10k (on Madeira Drive), but to make up the extra seven miles, it goes up over the cliffs to the east of Brighton - not fun at all!