100 marathon Club the madness begins

Blogging ? what's all that about then ?

Something new I guess, what do I say, what do folks wanna hear about ?

I guess as the organisers of the Brathay Challenge sent me this link I should talk about running & my 10 marathons in 10 days challenge ?

With regards to the challenge maybe i should start at the beginning, why am i putting my body through the ordeal of running 262 miles in 10 days ? I don't know, makes no sense really & i often question my sanity.

The first person I have to blame is Jim "manic" Mundy of Sutton Runners - I'd never heard of the concept until chatting to him, he's not only done the challenge he was daft enough to do it in back to back years !!

Of course then i have to blame Jim's club mate Dave Ross, the mad South African ultra distance runner for introducing me to Jim on a cold dark January day at Sutton station in January 2007 as I headed out with the 100 marathon club to run in Belgium with a mere 6 marathons under my belt.

mentioning to these guys you've done 6 marathons when they've done 100 - 600 ish is like an Aston Martin driver asking what you drive & replying "I've got a skateboard" !!

The more I chatted to Roger,Colin,Linda,Fu & about 6 other Dave's the more the insanity spread culminating in 17 marathons in total that year & 23 once I get round the historic city of Hastings on Sunday with possibly the craziest 100 club marathoner of them all Paul Watts, you thought doing 100 marathon was tough how about doing it whilst blind !!

As I said this is something new to me, so not sure how much i should write don't want to bore people, gonna leave it there as it's getting late & need to run off the excess calories from last night's office party !!

keep on running !!