I’ve been so pre-occupied with the Brighton Marathon over the last week that the seven month anniversary of the three mile a day challenge totally passed me by! (It was on Tuesday) I’ve been shifting at The Express today with a bit of a late finish so it’s too late now but I’ll do a [...]
Apr
22
Energy levels approaching zero
The burning pain in my legs has gone to be replaced by a dull, but bearable, pain in my shins. The big change though is in my energy levels. Post Sunday’s marathon, I’d been full of beans for the next couple of days, no doubt buoyed by actually finishing the bloody thing. But this morning [...]
Apr
21
Now I know what post marathon pain feels like
Three days since the Brighton Marathon and I thought I’d got away with the pain issue – at least until about 3am this morning I did. In the two days since the race, I’ve been out, ran both days to keep up my three-mile-a-day streak, had a sports massage, done lots of stretching and icing [...]
Apr
20
See my Brighton Marathon finish on video
I’ve finally sorted out some of the confusion over my time for the Brighton Marathon. Apparently my chip malfunctioned, I was one of 15 from 8000 whose chip didn’t work. So my time sent by them, which was adjusted to 3 hours 53 minutes, is the time it took me to finish from when the [...]
Apr
19
Hitting 850 miles the day after the Brighton Marathon
I’ve now added pictures to the post on the Brighton Marathon, click here to see them So after a fairly good night’s sleep I woke up this morning a little stiff but in better shape than I expected. Interestingly, the stiffness is more muscle soreness than shin splints so I’m hoping I have broken the [...]
Apr
18
Bird shit on the head and running Brighton
We went down to Brighton on Saturday for the marathon, checking into the Premier Inn for the night and then going to our pals, Jo and Omar’s for dinner. Omar was also running the race, so Jo had done a huge pasta dish for the pair of us and Laura and I made sure to [...]
Apr
17
The run before Brighton
The last run this morning before tomorrow’s Brighton Marathon saw we do a very, very easy circuit of Streatham Common – little more than a jog to get me through the last day without any problems. I’ve also had a good stretch out and am about to jump in a cold bath and then it’s [...]
Apr
16
The penultimate Brighton Marathon run
So the penultimate run before Sunday’s Brighton Marathon went well this morning. I didn’t really push it and also didn’t look at the Garmin again as I was running to check my speed and still did under 9mins 30secs a mile. I also went to my last sports massage before the face. Lillian at the [...]
Apr
15
One thing that DEFINITELY doesn't work for shin splints
I was pretty cautious when I went out for my afternoon run today. I wanted to make sure I warmed up properly, took it slowly and took a route with some soft ground to take the pressure off my legs. Now, over the last few months, I’ve tried loads of remedies to reduce the shin [...]
Apr
12
Loving the new trainers
So, whisper it, I think I may be starting to solve the shin splints problem and it could to be down to the new trainers. Since I got the Brooks Adrenalines on Friday, I have done 10 miles in them, two threes and a four and the pain in my legs seems to be receding [...]
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