You know you’re training for a marathon when…

6.2 miles in 50:44
Route: DfES – Home 4a

…you can’t get up out of a chair without wincing slightly;

…your friends ask you how the training is going and then glaze over when you start telling them about it;

…you’re forever ferrying bags of running gear to and from work;

…you are drinking so much water that you need the toilet constantly and are considering writing to your MP about the lack of public toilets;

…you are mildly addicted to Lucozade sport;

…you can’t pass a brick wall without feeling an urge to stretch your calf muscles against it;

…you start flicking through ‘Runners World’ in the newsagent before you even realise you are doing it;

…you know what ‘fartlek’ means and have actually tried it;

…a large bunch of bananas lasts 2 days max.