Hmm, not quite sure what I’ve got myself into here…

This is the first big event in my training in the run up to Borneo.

It’s going to be nature at its toughest. It’s 11 miles (longer than I’ve ever run before). That’s almost a half marathon, but I think it’s going to be much tougher with rough terrain, steep hills and muddy pools to navigate.

So I’ve got to train hard over the next couple weeks. On Saturday I did my first really long practice run – from Clapham Junction, 1.5 times around Clapham Common, back to Brixton, then twice around Brockwell Park. Mapping it out when I got home, I was pleasantly surprised that it was a total of 9.3 miles – so not far off my target.

I think the longest I ran before was Bay to Breakers in San Francisco in 2005. That was 7.5 miles, which I did in 1:06. My target is to match that pace at Hell Runner.

Please wish me luck! Or even better, make a donation to show your support – we’re over 2/3 of the way towards our target and it is certainly feeling like very hard work now!

Time to get out the devil’s horns…