Barolo and wine runner's lexicon

I just missed an opportunity to go to Rome because I am still waiting on my "carte de sejour", French for permission to go in and out of the country as I please without getting deported. Fortunately, I have been before and my girlfriend and her family were kind enough to bring me back some Italian treats. Yesterday was a multi course Italian meal with Barolo wine and no running. Today, I drank Minervois from my trusty bag in a box with some left over pizza pie and fusili in pesto. I continued with some goat’s cheese, Basque Iraty cheese with black cherry fruit spread. The finisher was left over Tiramisu and a small pot of coffee from my Italian coffee maker. Then I went for a 1.4k swim (25 min). Dinner tonight will be steak, Swiss chard and sweet potato. Probably I will drink the Minervois again to see if it has matured since lunch time. I'll have a couple squares of dark Italian chocolate to finish.
I have been reading up a little on how to prepare for a marathon. The shortcoming of the literature that I have found is that it is based on people who are only doing one event... running. So I have decided to use the same techniques for preparing for the drink stations. I may use some terms that you are not familiar with so I have created a mini lexicon:
I will refer to drinking other alcohols as "cross training". For example, on Sunday, I watched a rugby match while drinking a fabulous Basque amber ale- that was cross training, in case you missed it.
"Specific training" refers to when I am drinking Bordeaux.
"Endurance training", I suppose, would be a massive night out but this seldom happens anymore, not that my endurance has deteriorated. It is my recuperation phase which has become critical and drooling on my slippers for days on end is not going to help me finish 42.2k.

The first 10 weeks in brief

I am training for le marathon de Medoc in September which requires me to drink 23 different Bordeaux wines and run 42.2 Kilometres. Ok. Perhaps I am not actually required to drink all 23 but I think I should make a concerted effort or it would be just as well to do some other more conventional marathon.
I have never run in any competition before, however my alcohol consumption skills have a much more solid foundation. I am going to try to turn this to my benefit.
I am in year 17 of my drinking preparation and week 10 of my anticipated 27 weeks of running before the marathon on September 11.
In this blog I will attempt to document my jogs and wine consumption. I welcome advice and encouragement. I have kept a written record of my main physical activity (including the raising of glasses) so I will put that down here for further reference


Wk 1
1k - swim (25 min)
3k - rowing machine (10 min), 600m swim (12 min)
5k run (28 min), ski machine (5 min)
3.5k run (24 min)

Wk 2
5k run (27 min), bike 2 times (15 min)-warm up/cool down
5k run (25 min,inc 4 times 4 min fast), bike 2 times 20 min-warm up/cool down
3.5k jog/walk (35 min), bike 2 times (15 min)
7k run (45 min)

Wk 3
3k run (20 min), 1k swim
3k run ( 20 min, inc 4 times 4 minutes fast)
6k run (31 min)
7k run (40 min)

Wk 4
5k run (20 min),bike (2 times 20 min), ski machine (15 min), 500m swim (10 min)
5k run (30 min)
8k run (50 min)

wk 5
5.5k run (33 min)
6.5k run (25 min, inc 4 times 4 min fast)

Wk 6
2k run (15 min), cardio (15 min)
5.8k run (26 min)
12.4k run (1h 27 min)

Wk 7
6.5k run (40 min)
3k run (20 min), cardio (20 min)
1.5k run (10 min), cardio (30 min), ski machine (8 min)
8k run (50 min)

Wk 8
5.6k run (30 min, inc 5 times 4 min fast, ski machine (12 min)
4k run (30 min)
12k run (1h 7 min, inc first 10k 51 min)

wk 9
4k jog (40 min)
6.5k run (45 min)
13k run (1h 15 min)

Wk 10
6.5k (45 min)
cutting down and uprooting a tree (35 min)
15k (1h 20 min)

wines consumed wk10: coteaux d'Aix en Provence, Chateau Flaugeres- Montpellier, Minervois, Pic St. Loup, Vaceyras = all red and all yummy.