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Having never run a half marathon in my life, or even a full marathon I have decided to set myself a bit of a challenge and have entered the Jurassic Coast Challenge 2010, organised by VOTwo.  The challenge involves running 3 marathons in 3 days along the Jurassic coastline of Dorset from Lyme Regis to Sandbanks.

So on Friday 26th March I get up and run a marathon, then stumble to bed.  On Saturday, I will wake up in pain and go and run another marathon, then have someone carry me to bed.  Finally on Sunday I will wake up in tears and even more pain, before putting on my trainers for the final time and running a third and final marathon.

To make it just a little bit more challenging the route is not following roads like the London marathon.  This event will be a mixture of trails, rocky cliff paths, sand, mud, shingle and maybe a small sprinkle of tarmac.

Just to make the event really appealling, it involves a horrifying amount of long and tall hills to go up, and down.

The final 'nail' in my challenge coffin - it is currently January 6th 2010, and I have not even started training.  I cant go for a run if I wanted to as I am injured and there is snow everywhere!  So not having been for a run for 2 months, giving me around 8 weeks to train.  In short I will have around 8 weeks to train, which probably is not enough for one marathon, let alone 3 in 3 days!  This really will be a challenge.

I think anyone who has known me over the past 3 or 4 years knows how I like a challenge and a bit of competitive racing.  This though is taking it to a level I am not even sure I can do!  With your help and support I intend to complete all three marathons, even if it means crawling over each of the three finish lines in the dark.  I am optomistic at this stage of being able to cope with the challenge, but having never run a marathon I have no idea how my body will be feeling after 20+ miles.  Even if my knees or hips give up, I will keep pushing myself to walk/limp to the finish.

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Feel free to send me a text on 26th/27th/28th March as I am sure I could do with the encouragement.

SAM

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