WHo's idea was it to sign up for the Vic marathon, anyway?

A few months ago, several people I run with signed up for this year's Victoria Marathon. I figured that since I'd be running with them all summer, I'd end up doing the training runs, so I might as well get a medal. So I also signed up. (No, if they jumped off a cliff I wouldn't follow them. Unless we were all learning to rappel or something. Then I'd blame Mike...)

Training has been going really well. There are 6 of us, usually, at least for the long runs. (Every other week we do a short run of 16k. How did 16k become a short run???) So far the weather hasn't been too bad, although I'm really glad yesterday was a 16k day, because although we were done by about 9.30 or so, it was already 25 degrees C at the airport.

We have three more runs of more than 30k each. We have a schedule, but each time we've gone long we've managed to go a couple of km further than planned. The longest planned run is 35k.

So far so good. I just hope the temps cool a bit before the 31k we're supposed to do this weekend...