Ramblings of a mad man.

I cant believe just how tired I feel this morning after just two days of training. If I feel this tired after only 2 days of training, then how will I cope with the full 24 hour slog. At least I know that I have the stamina and mental resolve to complete the task, having completed a few other daft feats as follows:

a. 16 Marathons, including 5 in 5 days, averaging 3hrs 59min
b. 40 Mile ultra done in 7hrs 30.
c. 52 Mile Ultra done in 10hrs 30.
d. Mountain Marathon in Chamonix
e. 2 Marathons in 2 days just 3 weeks ago.

I'm trying to imagine how tired I'd feel staying up for a full 24hours. The issue wont be the mileage(thats not to say that I will underestimate it because I wont be, if you'd like a representation of how far it is, check out this link PRESS HERE), but staying awake, I need to know what that feels like. I wonder if anyone has an ideas what it feels like. I could possibly ask the Beastie Boys, they sang a song about staying awake until gone midnight.

Does anyone know what the world looks like at 3am in the morning or has anyone been outside between office hours, I'm not even certain that the world is still there once I've gone in the office.

On the running front I've gone from training for 5kms, straight up to training for a 160km run. Thats 32 parkruns (one word, all letters lower case - anyone know whose bugbear that is).

Just how do you train for such a distance? The answer is I dont know, other than one thing, I suspect 80% (ish) is going to be mental. I will be doing over the next 3 weeks a lot of mileage, at slow speeds, before I taper, a taper after only 3 weeks running, now theres a thought. If my training plan works, I should be able to adapt it and put together a quickfire 5 week marathon training plan.

If youve read this far, you should have noted that my writing style is completely random, the reason for that is there is so much in my head which I need out, therefore jumping from topic to top..

I'd like to thank my brother, Paul for setting up the spreadsheet on the blog, which should start to fill up if I get many people wanting to run a mile and (sponsoring me).

If anyone is concerned about getting cold during the night if you plan on coming over to give me support, I'll be setting up a 6 berth tent, along with a table with a double gas burner and will be bringing a kettle and tea bags and coffee, to keep you all warm. I'll also bring along 3 or 4 sleeping bags if you plan on spending more than an hour or so on site.

Thanks, and please keep reading.