Prague Diaries: 90 Days To Go

By Chris O'Keefe

This week I've done nearly 24 miles in three sessions and I'm shattered. The latest run was last night. On Wednesday I ran my first of three. The pedometer showed 7.75 miles on the clock and it only took me 45 minutes to do.

However the pedometer isn't working properly now because when I reach a mile mark it goes back to zero. So I have no idea how much I'm running. The joys of modern technology!

Meanwhile I was contacted by Iain Jenkinson from Barnardo's who said I would get my fundraising kit soon.

I 'm actually quite confident of breaking 4 hours 30 minutes. In fact I could be as bould as to say that under 4 hours isn't out of the question. I might live to regret those words.

Prague Diaries: 14 1/2 weeks to go

I have decided to keep a diary of my progress in the build up to my run in the Prague Marathon. Here is my first entry into my log.

May 22 is looking ridiculously close. Today's run was only about 3 or 4 miles and I felt a strain in my back about halfway round. Walking along Rice Lane and trying to run desperately was my idea of hell at this point. The only thing to interrupt this was a bloke in the passenger seat of a Mercedes shouting "whoa!" Not entirely sure who he was or what he'd been taking, draw your own conclusions.

But I wasn't going to give up. So I kept trying to run and managed to get a bit of steam before I get home.

Going to try and get a couple of laps of the park in later.