Doing the best that I can, at writing, running and living
Let me begin with the negatives of today’s run, and there were a few. Fail number one: when I got out the house, half an hour later than I wanted but still in time to run to Parkrun, the first two miles seemed not to have registered on my Runkeeper app. I had to stop… Continue reading Five Fails
This week I felt something. No, don’t worry. My calf muscle didn’t seize up and my hamstring didn’t ping. Quite the opposite in fact. I realised that I am getting stronger. There is probably a way of measuring this more scientifically, but I don’t need to see the metrics, I could feel it. By the… Continue reading Yorkshire MT – Week 2
Well, how did that happen? I thought I had loads of time over the rest of spring and summer to do a few different things before training for the second marathon this year but the time has whizzed by, and I’m already at the end of Week 1 of round two! More like fell walking… Continue reading Yorkshire MT – Week 1
I’ve just eaten my first KFC in two years. I get a yearning for it once in a while because I have this childhood memory – probably a false one – that it was a tasty treat of a meal. When I was a kid, we used to have the occasional takeaway – pizza, fish… Continue reading Sandringham Half – and Fried Chicken
I have just stuck a load of autumn/winter clothes into the attic. I swap my clothes around every six months or so, in order to make a bit of space in my small wardrobe and to make the ‘in season’ clothes feel new and fresh because I haven’t seen them for ages. It works for… Continue reading Sunny Southport and Other Sundries
Today marks four weeks after my Spring marathon in Manchester and I think this is the time to get back into some sort of structured (ish) training. I would have begun a little sooner, but I had my big two-day cycle ride last Thursday and Friday, so I needed to inverse taper on the bike.… Continue reading Fasted But Not Fast
I’ve been tracking a number of people on the London Marathon app. My good friend Salena is looking pretty consistent for the first two 5K markers. There are a whole bunch of Pensby Runners in the field too, with a range of times and expected times between 2:36 to around 6 hours, and this is… Continue reading Borders League and London Marathon
Surprisingly, I managed to sleep for most of the night before the race. A family wedding in Knutsford the previous day had had a free bar and a superb band on, and I was a little bit gutted that I couldn’t partake of either, other than having the odd bottle of Peroni 0.0. Instead, I… Continue reading Manchester Marathon 2023
Last night I dreamt I went to Manchester (again). I got there too late, I couldn’t find the bag collection, and then suddenly I was running in what felt like gloop and my limbs wouldn’t really move. What a nightmare! I’m not prone to anxiety, but since yesterday, I have suffered all the classic pre-race… Continue reading Maranoia
And rest. Actually, it’s probably not wise to be entirely sedentary for the taper period but it has been known for people to do exactly that and I’m currently tempted. A lot of the training plans start from three weeks out from your race date, and get you to cut your weekly mileage by twenty… Continue reading Taper Time: Marathon Training – Week 13
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