Feb
13
I was out… I’m not kidding here… at 9am this morning. And it’s Sunday! Lot’s to do today and so had to get the run out of the way. I suggested yesterday that I would need to start running 7 miles or more every Sunday as from today. As you will no doubt notice, I [...]
Sep
25
What happened to the weather? My oh my, it was cold today! Having dragged myself out of bed early several mornings this week, I decided Saturday was for laying in and leaving the run until later. And then I forgot to turn my alarm off and so got up early anyway! It’s been a long [...]
Apr
23
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 [...]
