Sometimes in life we dream of many things, never supposing they’ll come true, happy to day dream, happy to think of a better or different life. We rarely actually believe these things will actually come through to fruition and sometimes when our lives actually take the desired direction it is a fear blind panic that starts to overcome us, perhaps because our dreams are just that – dreams. They are something we want so badly, something that we strive towards as a goal, that when they start to become true the fear of failure becomes horrendously unbearable. 

It is with this feeling that my dream of running the London marathon has taken a dramatic turn of events. Now get me wrong, this isn’t a huge dream to me, it is just something that I’ve always considered that I wanted and thought I should do. To achieve running a marathon is, in my mind, to achieve a great sporting victory and though I have applied on several occasions I’ve never got in and to this day never actually dreamt that I would. But oh yes, you’ve guessed it, before I went off to the sunny climes of the Red Sea shores I got my confirmation that indeed I was in for 26^th April 2009, 26.2miles of London running! Argh! 

I have a large and sufficient time period in which to train in but it simply seems so immense to me. I suppose I should just get on with it and do the best I can but I have a strange mixture of fear and exhilaration at the news. There is a fantastic training 13week schedule in Marathon Magazine which I will be starting on Mon (I hoped to start this week but large quantities of Shisha smoking seem to be repeating on me in the form of an annoying tickling cough) and other than that all I can do is cross my fingers, hope for the best, and train as well as I can. What on earth have I got myself into!? 

I have also decided to start a new blog featuring Television shows and news simply because I felt that the odd opinion here and there in “Life of the Hermitage” didn’t really work. In “Hermitage TV” I can at least concentrate on a specific subject and update as necessary. Unfortunately I had to move to blogspot due to the lack of html elements here at Bravenet, but I will in no way be leaving this little blog to blow in the wind! Rather, I’ll have to start updating with all the pain of training for a ridiculously long run!