March 2012 has been a crazy month.

It started out with a 42km Marathon 'Feeler' run where I did the entire PCN of the East including ECP. It was really tough but I completed it nevertheless, never once stopped to walk because I was tired. I just pushed on in my Puma H-Streets. It was quite a feat for me!

Then I embarked on my 12-week Marathon Training Program. 2 key exercise per week for 12 weeks. Its beginning to heat up now as I am hitting the 25km workouts. The next few weeks this will progress to 30km, 33km up till 36km, as lead-up to the Sundown Marathon in May.

Then there was the issue of getting ready for the inaugural 1st ever Kuantan Century ride, covering 160km on a bike under the baking hot 35+deg celsius sun. I made myself do a long solo 115km ride a week prior just to get my ass ready. I survived this ride and in pretty decent time as well (finishing around the top 30% of participants), considering I waited a few times for me mate and also had to deal with a rear tire puncture halfway through. It ended up to be just a great fun ride and nice road trip to Kuantan.

Then this morning, in true Jackal fashion, I paid homage to Barefoot Running and did 21km with my bare feet. It was 'painfully slow' (painful and slow as well). Decent completion time with average pace of 6:38min/km.

I end this month with 250km of running under my belt (246km now but after tomorrow's 'recovery run' I will be there) and about 350km of cycling distance covered.

It will be tough to match this kind of running distance with any month for me!!