Edinburgh Marathon

Its time that I made a decision as to whether to run at Edinburgh or not; London marathon is coming up htis weekend and the training group I have been with for the past few months is now geared up for London; I have another five weeks before Edinburgh and have fallen behind on the long runs.

If I do Edinburgh then I need to do a couple of long runs - 20 milers - in the next few weeks; and this weekend is a medium fell run that I would quite like to do.  I have already decided that I want to do fell running this year, but have started off slowley because I agreed to help man the finishing funnel as well as do the registration; so didn't run the Rivington Pike Fell Race.

The nice thing about the Rivington Pike Fell Race would have been that it was a short one for me to run, and would add to my total for the club championships.  Alas, now that I have missed it, then I shall have to do another one.

Edinburgh comes at a bad time for the road racing season as well; there are races before and two races in the week following Edinburgh; and whilst I recovered fairly quickly from last years London marathon, I am not sure about doing two races in the week following a marathon - this is only my second season running and two races a week without a marathon is bad enough.

I think I will keep my options open; if I do a 17 miler up to Rivington then I will at least be in shape if I want to keep on with Edinburgh, else I can skip and concentrate on the road season.