With the bike knackered and most of the trains from Streatham into town down, I decided the only way to get to my personal training class was to run in. It’s about 6.7 miles from here to there so I figured run in in the morning and run back in the afternoon. To do this, [...]
Jul
10
I could do without days like today
Well it’s too bloody hot for a start but aside from all that, things have been progressively nigglingly horrid for most of the day. As part of my PT course, I’ve been learning about dose-response curves. Basically, this means there is a response every time you give a dose of something. So when you exercise [...]
Jul
04
Too tired and flat tyres
Another day on the personal training course today and another early morning run… Running at just after six am on a Sunday morning is even worse than running at just after six am on a Saturday morning! Anyway, I was pretty shattered when I woke up: a week of increasing my mileage to five miles [...]
Jun
27
1,100 miles passed and "I can't wait for some chips"
So I know it’s not much of another milestone, given I passed my 1095 mile target just yesterday but today’s run took me past 1,100 miles so far. With the weather so warm, I’ve decided on gym days I’m going to split my run: run up to the gym, do some weights and run back…. [...]
Jun
24
If the mind is weak, punish the body.
A year or so before I took up running, my other health obsession to go with the gym was cycling. I’d bought a bike on the government’s Ride To Work scheme were due to tax breaks you only end up paying about half price for it and I would cycle daily to and from work [...]
Jun
21
90 days to go
So 90 days left but just 14 more miles to complete my first target: to complete more than 1095miles in the year. At this rate, it looks like I could complete the year with a total of around 1,400 miles, which would be a pretty good effort I reckon. I’ve been going through one of [...]
Jun
10
Time for a slight career change
Despite the recession being officially over, things keep getting a little sadder for those of us who have worked on Fleet St – the Mirror Group announced it was shedding 200 staff as it consolidates traditional printed media with its digital operations. One friend of mine, Roger Love, who left papers a couple of years [...]
Mar
27
Now with added shin splints
So I feared the worst when I went to see Lillian, the sports masseuse at Virgin Active in Streatham yesterday and she confirmed it within seconds of touching my legs. ‘You’re starting to get shin splints.’ It’s the two words most runners dread and, having suffered before, I knew the telltale signs were there all [...]
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 [...]
Feb
16
Day 150 and thank heaven for sports massage
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 [...]
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