May
31
My experience of Bank Holidays is that they tend to fly past – but this weekend seems to have been a pretty slow one, with today, especially, seemingly lasting 40 hours instead of 24… I’m not sure if that has anything to do with not having a full-time job any more or not, but it [...]
Apr
01
So the legs seem to be getting better and I’m back to training paces of less than 10miles per minute. It’s funny but, before I got injured a couple of weeks ago, I could have done three miles at less than nine minutes a mile quite easily, whereas with just a couple of weeks running [...]
Mar
04
Four days of taking it really easy, a ton of Ibuprofen, ice packs and an hour’s sports massage and I’m still feeling the wrong side of sore on my left shin. This morning’s run wasn’t that bad but I’ve stiffened right up since so I’ve spent much of the day trying to find things to [...]
Mar
03
Another day waking up to a sharp ache in my left calf this morning. It’s right at the bottom where the muscle joins the bone, an inch or so above the ankle. It’s not unbearable, but it’s noticeable when I walk, despite the sterling efforts of the sports masseuse Lillian yesterday. I was reading an [...]
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 [...]
