A Newbie Runner’s Perpective: The Anticipation of Race Day
Week 7- A Newbie Runner’s Perspective: The Anticipation of Race day Training’s complete. Just some packing to do this weekend and then I fly to Uganda. Then six days after my arrival, I take on the Uganda Marathon! So with eight days to go and limited race experience, how am I feeling and how do […]
The Road to Uganda: A Newbie’s Marathon Training Diary – Week 6 to Week 12
Week 6- My First Ever Half Marathon and Tapering Time Wow. How time flies… I can’t believe it’s been eleven weeks since I began training for the Uganda marathon and struggled to complete a 5K in my first training session. Now with only 18 days to go until the race and all my long distance […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
