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Feb
25

Split to the gym and back

Still a little tight today so another fairly easy run that I actually split in two. I’d not made it the gym at all this week so decided to run there and back, happily, in another case of running serendipity, it’s about 1.47 miles to the gym… Click here for a Google Map and full [...]

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 [...]

Feb
15

Ouch, ouch, ouch

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
05

Walking like a ballerina after sport massage

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 [...]

Jan
30

Splitting running and Power Plates

I tried an interesting experiment today in the gym: run 1 mile (10 mins) on the treadmill, come off, do a Power Plates session and then run two miles (20mins). I say interesting, what I mean in knackering, sweaty and sick inducing. Marina, the PP instructor at the gym is a beast of a woman… [...]

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