How to run 52 marathons in one year

And here's a summary of 2010:

32 singles, 5 doubles, 1 x 10 in 10, one huge dent in my credit card

1 Zurich  2 Stansted Stagger  3 10 in 10 Club AGM :-| 4 Portland Coastal   5 Gloucester :-| 6 Marrakech   7 Seville    8 Malta  9 Grantham Day 1   10 Grantham Day 2 :-| 11 Rome   12 Easter Enigma  13 Connemara  14 Connemara  15 Brighton   16 London   17 10 in 10 Day 1  18 10 in 10 Day 2  19 10 in 10 Day 3  20 10 in 10 Day 4 :-| 21 10 in 10 Day 5  22 10 in 10 Day 6 :-| 23 10 in 10 Day 7  24 10 in 10 Day 8  25 10 in 10 Day 9  26 10 in 10 Day 10     27 Chester :-| 28 Dartmoor Discovery   29 Langport Day 1  30 Langport Day 2  31 Mauritius   32 Tanners    33 Fairlands Valley  34 Summer Enigma  35 Faversham  36 Isle of Man  37 Fleetwood  38 Kent Coastal   39 2 to go :-| 40 Nottingham  41 Grantham Day 1 :-| 42 Grantham Day 2  43 Great Langdale   44 Jersey  45 Leicester  46 Abingdon  47 Brentwood    48 Snowdonia  49 Porto  50 Cornish 51 La Rochelle  52 Calvia  

I've assigned smileys to each race to calculate a very unscientific measure. 1 point for each  , -1 point for each  , :-| is just a oh, you know sort of race,  for surprising races, usually good surprises,  for landmark races or placings, and the odd  or  for, well, they had to go in somewhere. Starting from 0, the total score is +16, which roughly means I enjoyed 16 of 'em. Don't look at it the other way round......

I won't be doing 52 in a year ever again, aside from the over training, over racing, tiredness, mental fatigue, time consuming admin and sheer jadedness with the whole thing, it's bloody expensive. Nice to have ticked the box, but I wouldn't recommend it.