Two Little Ducks (Thursday August 21st)

Quack quack, just 22 days to go till the bananathon and if you haven't had a good look at the interactive map yet, now is the time to get stuck in.

Click where it says 'view larger map' just under the map to right of the blog and then click the white box that says 'Satellite' to get an actual image of the 26 mile course. The route is marked out in banana yellow and eighteen of the venues now have their place on the map with a clickable icon that reveals what we are doing at each place, where it is, what time we are getting there and a gateway to their own websites. Zoom in using the bar on th eleft side of the map to exactly where we will be running on the day. Just 8 more venues left to name and we have some absolute belters. Eyes down.

It's been a bit of a frustration to me that I haven't had time to make more films about the race. Once all the venues are in place I will make one of the whole course, but that will probably have to be it. I showed the original film to one of the celebrity DJs today and I was amazed to see how much the idea has changed sinced we launched back in June.

We originally planned to have top bananas (lrf fundraisers) running with us all the way round, but decided that there was more than enough going on without that aspect. The time has also changed, originally it was 10am till 8pm, now it starts and finishes half an hour earlier to maximise the use of Tiger Tiger.

I haven't a clue what the next few weeks will bring, but am really looking forward to getting together with the Tom the banana and running a long way on Sunday with him. We will purposefully work stops into the run as specific training for the event. We have both individually done this on runs and noted how difficult it is to get going again after a few minutes rest. Cramping may well be a problem and if that kicks in we may have trouble reaching all the destinations at the right time. What have we let ourselves in for?

Tarzan