For some strange reason I've decided to run in this year's Great North Run, a half-marathon in October.

 

I thought it was about time I did some sort of exercise, and I used to love running when I was a youngster. Whether my creaky old knees will be up to it is another matter, but there's only one way to find out.

 

To try to encourage myself to keep going, I'm keeping a list of all my training runs (on the home page) plus a link to a map on the brilliant Windows Live Local on where the run was - mainly to calculate the distances but also because it's cool.

 

Update: It's all over - my aging knees weren't up to the training, and after doing pretty well (up to 4 miles every other day) they gave way and I haven't been able to train for weeks. I officially pulled out of the race today, and now realise I just can't run that far. Not very happy about that, but it wasn't totally unexpected.