The importance of travelling on foot

"If you live in England and your girlfriend is in Sicily, and it is clear that you want to marry her, then you should walk to Sicily to propose."

- Werner Herzog

For my next trick...

I'd quite like to run a marathon. I started running again soon after I got back from Japan in November last year, and have got back to the point where I was a couple of years ago (before injury persuaded me to give up running and take up walking) where I can run 5-6km without any difficulty. Barring further injury, I reckon I should be able to run a marathon in a year or so.

My goal is the Tokyo Marathon in February 2009. Unfortunately this is quite a popular marathon, so popular that they hold a lottery to determine which of the applicants get to run. They had just over 130,00 applicants for this year's marathon, with just 25,000 of these getting to start. So if I don't get selected I'll try the Gold Coast Airport Marathon instead. That would be in July 2009. If injury forces me to give up the idea of a marathon altogether, I'll bail out and do something easier, like walking the Tokaido.

Walking to Tokyo (by Erik)