Well, looks like I'm back for a bit at least! The New Year's Resolution sort of went OK in terms of not pigging out too much, but I spent more time at the gym (spinning, cross training etc) than running, and ended up with Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
A good bit of hard massage, lots of stretching, and gently getting back to the running seems to have sorted that out, so I'm in the process of planning the next stupid idea:
The theory is that myself and my sister will run from Winchester to Ditchling Beacon then down to Brighton over 3 days on the South Downs Way - that's 80-90 miles of fairly hilly off-road running in 3 days!
My sister is a nutty marathon freak - she's run 28 marathons, including the Jurassic Coast Challenge which is 3 marathons in 3 days from Lyme Regis to Studland (in Dorset), so the team of the two of us has some sensible experience (albeit it all weighted towards one half of that team!).
Training wise, I've booked in for a 100 mile charity cycle ride in July, a half marathon in July and I've got a 10K in May. I'm expecting to be doing a long run of around 15 miles each week by July, which should hopefully build up enough fitness to get this done.
More info to come as the planning goes on, but the last thing is that I've just bought an Innov8 15 litre backpack - it's amazingly light (feels like a carrier bag!). I haven't run with it yet, but I'll put a mini review up when I've had a chance to try it.
