On saturday evening I ran my first ever marathon. I ran the Ottosdal nite marathon (www.ottosdaldrafentrap.co.za) the only full marathon ran at night in South Africa.

I ran the first half marathon in exactly 2 hours, I reached the 32km mark in exactly 3 hours and then a cramp in my right calf really slowed me down. The last 10kms took me 1 hour 21 minutes.

My time was 4:21:01 - that puts me in the F group for the comrades start - and I wanted the C group. I'll be running a 50km ultra marathon on March 17 and maybe two more marathons on Apr 7/8 and Apr 14/15. I'm going to do my best to get under the 4:20 mark.

In two weeks time I'll be doing my next adventure race, and again at the end of April.