Up & Running

I felt that this would be the month that would give me a clear indication of my abilities and potential to do the MdS, as I was running in the South Downs Marathon, which, by default of location, was to be very hard work. The terrain allowed only the best runners to run the hills, which us mortals had to walk, but I got round in 4:07 and didn’t hit the wall at all. Rain hammered down in the last 5 miles (won’t have this to contend with in Morocco), but with Andy Palmer, from Poole Runners as company the miles seemed easy and I finished with ease. I hit the wall the following day as I felt like I had flu that night, but recovered quickly with little discomfort, and returned to cross-training within a week.

Inital Starts

March 2007, and the places opened on the internet. I had set alarms and reminders for 10am, not that I needed any of them, and the moment the places came up on offer I grabbed one. Thankfully I was lucky to get a place as all places (220 + 100 on the waiting list) went in 30 minutes. From then on it was a case of trying to concentrate on the next race rather than 2 years in the future.

I managed to get a web-site launched – http://www.desertram.co.uk/ - with the help of my brother Ed (who actually did all the work, whilst I just kept asking for things to be changed), and this was officially launched in June. Business cards, car stickers and flyers were all printed and all paperwork to be sent out was suitably changed to show the site.