Johnny Hall's Travels and Travails

Part of my IM training involves running another marathon next spring. To be honest it's probably not the best thing to do since I have to recover to continue training hard but I've recovered pretty well from my first marathon, so what the hell. I want need to build my confidence and experience over the distance. I've got an entry form for the London Marathon but there's only a one in five chance of getting in without going the charity route. It looks a lot of fun but I'm allergic to large crowds and despite the fact that I love London and it'd be a good chance to catch up with my friends there, I've decided to pass this time. I'll get around to it another year. So, there are lots of choices - if I want to go abroad. But that's obviously quite expensive and long distance triathlon is going to skin me as it is. Anyway, I've put my entry in for the Lochaber Marathon at Fort William. It's in my country, it's as flat as it gets in Scotland, it only has about 500 runners and it's amongst some beautiful scenery. Perfect. Team Recipher enters it's second race.