Lazy Paddler and the Marathon

So today marks 30 days till my first marathon (that Sydney one that finishes at the Opera House). What's a better time to start blogging about exercise-related stuff on my lazy blog? I have been training...rather...intermittently IMO. It's quite difficult to juggle my other sporting and recreational endeavours with marathon training. Marathon training is, very, very taxing on my time and yes, on the body too. But time. Gosh! Burns away time! (along with muscle mass, fat, some money (not to the extend of paddling thank goodness...), food, food and lots of food). Anyway I hope by honestly blogging away will help me get back on track with my training. I currently only do the long 30K-ers on Sunday and 3 x 10Ks mid week. I should run more and do those FARTleks things...but they are damn hard...lazypaddler is just too lazy...

My Kinvaras are (almost) ready for action...

I've been slack in the weights and conditioning department this week too. Blame that new tone on my phone alarm. I've even stopped paddling for more than a month now due to lack of time. In fact, most times I cannot think of anything else apart from when (and whether!) I should do my next run. Sick isn't it? Do I miss paddling? Yep. But what really disturbed me was that, I realised I have so little else in common with some of the paddling crowd. It's the same with running. You go for a run and start chatting to your running mates about wind speed and stroke rate and you will be greeted with **silence**.

This is Mo...

You sit down with your paddling mates and start talking about how in awe you are at Mo Farah doing 2.22min Ks in the 5000m at IAAF in Moscow and you also get **silence**.

And no, I won't even get started on chatting with my gym mates...**silence** Well, given most people I speak to at the gym don't do long runs, and like the average person, thinks paddling is rowing...actually that was what I thought too until I started paddling......Let's all blame rowing.

Does this look like rowing?