Feb
16
For Natalie Onions – as mad as me Crickey, day 150 and still feeling very tender after Sunday’s 15miler… this training for the Brighton marathon is taking its toll. I felt even more tender when I visited my sports massage therapist Lillian this morning. When I told her where it hurt, she started sucking her [...]
Feb
15
Really stiff from yesterday’s 15miler and my left calf has quite an ache, so I spent today’s run going very, very slowly on the treadmill at the gym. Ice and paracetamol on their way to help out… Click here for full details of the day’s run Miles today: 3.01 Target: 447 Miles to date: 572.94 [...]
Feb
11
Very excited yesterday to find out Disney actually hosts a marathon around Walt Disney World in Orlando every January that runs through the four parks – I’ve already put my name down to come back next year and run it. This morning’s run was another dark one as we have another early start but I [...]
Feb
10
A full day on our Disney itinerary today has us meeting at 7.30, so it was just after 5.45 when I went out this morning. I’ve not really got the time to do my two day’s speed training while here this week (each session takes more than an hour) so I think I’m going to [...]
Feb
06
Today is day 140 – just the 225 to go! – and I’m upping my running distance at weekends in anticipation of the Brighton Marathon in April and starting to break new territory by running further than I ever have before. Normally my long run would be on a Sunday but even I’m not mad [...]
Feb
05
For Lillian I’m off to Disneyworld Orlando on Sunday for work for a week so I’m massively backed up when it comes to work stuff so this morning I went for an early three miler and was stiff as a board after my fast 5miles yesterday. Luckily, I’d booked my first ever sports massage at [...]
Feb
04
It was dark, wet, windy and cold when I set off this morning for a 5miler… so I decided to try and liven things up by running at a pace that approached that I’d hope to do if doing the Brighton Marathon under four hours. My first hurdle came when a broken down bus was [...]
Jan
31
For Peter Nunn and his 50th birthday We were in Brighton last night for my pal Peter Nunn’s 50th birthday.. a jolly time was had by all until around 3.30am when I was entertaining people in the bar of the Grand Hotel with a kid’s guitar with only three strings (don’t ask, it sounded great [...]
