Doing the best that I can, at writing, running and living
I had a good week of training last week but I didn’t space it out very well. My aim was to have a rest day on Wednesday and cycle with PROBs (Pensby Runners On Bikes) on Thursday, but Thursday came and went, and the only reason I didn’t go was that I was getting to… Continue reading Yorkshire MT – Week 5
Having felt so positive in the previous couple of weeks, I’ve had a little dip. I don’t mean that I’m down in the doldrums. Quite the contrary, I feel pretty good, but I haven't quite fired on all cylinders this week. Yesterday, I was wiped out from a heavy duty headache for most of the… Continue reading Parkrun Sandwich + Yorkshire MT – Week 4
Well, that was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Given that the forecast was for a 70% precipitation probability, I had expected glowering clouds, and a wetness akin to yesterday’s run. Instead, as I picked up Alex, it was still kind of dry, and the air, as we got… Continue reading Hilbre Island + Yorkshire MT – Week 3
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
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