The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary – Week 5
By Andy Teale Week 5- Learning Curves and Long Distance Running There’s less than a month now until the Uganda marathon, and approximately three weeks until I step foot in Africa for the first time! I’m so excited! I can’t wait to land in Uganda and explore Masaka! But before that, there’s some marathon training […]
What I learned running 21k in Uganda
An out of practice – and unfit – runner takes on the challenge of a half marathon in Uganda. Here’s what happened next.
The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary – Week 4
By Andy Teale Week 4- The Rollercoaster Ride of Training for a Marathon Up. Down. Up. Down. The last eight weeks have certainly felt like I’ve been on some sort of rollercoaster ride as I’ve been training for the Uganda marathon. There’s been high points, and on occasion, low points too. The first few weeks […]
The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary – Week 3
By Andy Teale Week 3- How I’m Preparing to Run a Marathon…in Uganda! The big question: how do you prepare for the marathon in Uganda when you’re not in Uganda yet? This is a question I didn’t take too much notice of during the opening few weeks of my training. Back in February and up […]
The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary – Week 2
By Andy Teale Week 2- Building Momentum So my first training blog ended on a high. After 5 weeks of running a mixture of 3Ks, 5Ks and 10Ks, I had finally conquered the 15K mark. It was tough, but I was pleased to have completed a third of distance I’ll need to cover on 24th […]
Diary of a UGM Runner in Training – Week 5
By Paul Lacey Welcome to Uganda Mzungu! It’s been 2 weeks since my last blog post and as promised this will be a rather special one after my incredible week in Uganda! Prior to my week in Uganda, training had been going very well and I won’t lie a part of me began to think […]
The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary
By Andy Teale Week 1- Ahhh!!! I’m Running Uganda’s First International Marathon!! 62 days. 3 hours. 53 minutes. 7 seconds…. That’s how long (at the time of writing) until I run Uganda’s first ever international marathon on 24th May. In two months, I’ll be taking on the equator’s heat, the African sun, the off road […]
Diary of a UGM Runner in Training – Week 3
By Paul Lacey Ruin or Redemption… So it was on. Father vs Son. The Kingston 20 miler. We both knew going into the race that our training had been similar (until recently, not nearly enough of it). We both knew our target pace was the same – sub 7 min/mile. We both knew each other’s […]
Diary of a UGM Runner in Training – Week 2
By Paul Lacey Second Place, a PB, but the old boy awaits me… Wow! I couldn’t have asked for a better first week to my training. I may be sat here with mild cramp hitting my hamstring every five or so minutes but, I did it. Training plan? Kept to it to the letter. Mileage? […]
Diary of a UGM Runner in Training
By Paul Lacey “Congratulations on entering the Inaugural Ugandan International Marathon!” Yes, that is correct, despite my horrendous marathon history, I have entered another marathon – in beautiful but also hot, humid, hilly, elevated East Africa. Don’t get me wrong I love to run, in fact over the shorter distances I would say I’m semi-respectable, […]
