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A short post today. Work pressures have once again bitten into my available blogging time. I did, however, mange to browse the running and marathon news on google and came up with this rather interesting piece of advice from Boston Marathon winner Sharon Cherop :-

Know the course

Don't let race day be the first time you see the marathon course.

I can easily see how this would be very important psychologically. When I have done distance running in the past I have always had a detailed plan of the route I would follow. Consequently it was easy to console myself with the knowledge that I had reached the half way or three quarters mark and that the finish line was not too far distant. I guess if you don't have this information available 13 miles can seem to go on forever and the likelihood of demoralisation is increased.

So with this rather timely advice in mind I am hoping to take a trip out to Sauvie Island next week and drive around the half marathon route. It will also be an opportunity to take some photographs of the the island which we will present for the delight and delectation of our readers

Next week should also see the implementation of our new sponsorship graphic embed and a report that I have finally broken the 15 minute barrier. I need to get my running endurance time up to about one hour by the end of this month so progress must be made soon.

Watch this space

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