Ian and Robin Do London

Hi All,

We have created this blog to enable us to share the pleasure and pain that we will be going through in the interests of charity to prepare and run the London Marathon on April 25th 2010.

We have set up a justgiving page -> http://www.justgiving.com/ian-and-robin-do-london
It would be great if you could help us reach our target of £2,000 for the charity Get Kids Going. This is a National charity which gives disabled children and young people - up to the age of 26 yrs - the wonderful opportunity of participating in sport.

We have dusted off a training plan, with personal goals of completing the marathon in under 4 hours. The training plans began on Monday of this week (4th Jan) and continue right up to the race day - Sunday 25th April.

Week 1 training has not gone to plan so far - Robin has been struck down with the flu for a couple of weeks and myself (Ian), whilst sneaking out on Tuesday before the snow struck Basingstoke for a quick 5.5 mile run, is also now laid up with the flu. So I think a combination of the outside weather, and a bit of sickness, week 1 is not the ideal start, but there are 16 weeks to go so we will pull it around!!

Please check in on this blog as we close in on the marathon - we will try to post progress and training stories.

I have just been on Wii FIT and have been told that with a BMI of 28, I am officially overweight (13 stone) so I will also track my Wii progress - see if I can shed some of that Christmas extravagance and get close to a BMI of 25.