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Aug
29

Sixteen miles and the Garmin starts to go

Back to a long run in the run up to the Athens Marathon today and, given I’ve got to do a load of studying for my course, I can’t really stay around too long to talk about it. To avoid last week’s long-run malaise where I ran out of gas, I made sure I had [...]

Aug
15

A half marathon distance around London

Thirty-five days of running left to go and it’s time to up the training for my piece de resistance, the Athens Marathon. According to my program, today’s long run should have been a 12 miler, so I roughly mapped out just over 12 miles using the walkjogrun.net site and set off, bright and early just [...]

Aug
04

Body falling to bits

Earlier this year in the run up to the Brighton Marathon, training for such a big race and doing three miles a day, saw my body starting to react in the worst way to increased mileage with a severe dose of shin splints. Now, one day into training for the Athens Marathon and with my [...]

Aug
03

Past the 1,300 mile mark

A fitful night’s sleep last night… I was up at one, three and five worrying about the twins, running, work… the whole shebang and then realised that while I’m getting closer to my goal of running every day for a year, I have totally neglected that six weeks after I finish, I am running the [...]

Mar
26

Mums always think you're the best

Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I swear there was a time, maybe ten or 15 years ago, where doing any kind of exercise, never mind a big challenge was kind of frowned upon. It seems like it used to be that instead of counting the miles you ran, the number of [...]

Mar
25

Overwhelmed by peoples' genorosity

Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I won’t harp on about this every post otherwise the blog will become more about fundraising than about the challenge… but I’m overwhelmed that, with Gift Aid, I’ve already raised more than £700. Thanks so much to all that have donated and to all those that [...]

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