Hello!
This might be completely mad (I suspect it is), but I was wondering how feasible it might be to keep my London Marathon entry given that I'm due to have my first baby on the 11th of September.
To explain further, I was successful in the general ballot for the 2015 marathon, but I stopped training as soon as I realised that I was up the duff in January and withdrew. It turns out that in those circumstances I still get an 'Ill or Injured' entry for the 2016 marathon, and I have until the 20th of this month to decide whether to go for it (and pay the entry fee).
As further background, I ran a half-marathon in 2014 but have never run a marathon before. I've always wanted to have a go at the London Marathon. I would've considered myself reasonably fit 7 months ago and regularly ran around 8-9 miles a few times a week, but that's a long way off 26.2 miles! And in the past 6 months I've been too exhausted to do any exercise. At the moment I can barely get up the stairs without stopping for a break due to the demands of my increasingly blimp-like bump.
I do intend to try and breastfeed when the baby's born, which will probably make going on long runs rather unfeasible...?
Does anyone have any experience of this sort of thing?
Am I bonkers to even consider doing this???