Jun
08
… as Madness once sang. Where I grew up in Greece there’s an old joke about someone going to London and it only raining twice: once for three days and once for four. And it felt like that a little today. Despite the summer being here and us having a week of sunshines, it’s grim [...]
Jun
07
So I went to bed last night with a knee that was aching so much I couldn’t sleep and woke up this morning with a knee aching so much it woke me up! A cup of tea, a banana, a couple of Ibuprofen and a story finished for The Times later and I went out [...]
Jun
06
So the good news is I managed to complete my three miles today; the bad news is, it wasn’t good and my knee is feeling pretty ropey right now. Among the lots of very nice messages I received yesterday, one from Andy Ratcliffe who reads the site said: ‘Hit the ibuprofen hard and the road [...]
Jun
05
The rest of the Friday, post-work was a write off for me. Throughout the day, I managed to get by just by burying myself in work and keeping busy, but by the time I got home I was zombified… Just enough energy to eat tea, watch telly for an hour and crash out. The good [...]
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
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
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 [...]
Apr
15
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
14
In the email conversation I had yesterday with fellow shin splint sufferer Claire Higgins I asked her how much difference it really made if she did the London Marathon in four hours or six and concluded that it didn’t really. The irony is that while telling other runners that just finishing is a decent result, [...]
