I was wittering about race prep this morning, as you do. What…? No, really. You do. Anyway. This year, I am mostly running with my very excellent friend Rebecca. She’s very lovely and very zen and we always have the most excellent, giggling time. We did Manchester marathon together in the spring (I know; I’m…
Category: iMarathon
Commitment
This has been an interesting year. You may remember that last year I promised Mr P that I wouldn’t train for a marathon this year. Then Mr P left me, and that was difficult. And I’ll be honest, I did consider registering for a marathon to console myself, but then I thought perhaps the rest…
Over the finish line!
I’m in that mass of people. We gathered in Preston Park at 8:30 yesterday morning, where I met up with a handful of the Run Mummy Run community, and chatted in particular to one lovely lady [edit: it was Lisa Jay, who was a star!] as we queued roughly forever for the race toilets… And then…
It’s today!!
I’m drinking tea in the living room of the impossibly cool house we’ve rented in Brighton. God bless Air BnB!! I’d like to tell you my race kit is neatly laid out on the floor. It was, yesterday. Today there’s a jumble of things, I’ve just eaten breakfast (chia porridge with strawberries, omega seeds and…
I FINISHED IT!!!
Yes I did. The whole iMarathon training programme!! Yesterday, I ran the final set of 60s intervals. I ran in glorious spring sunshine around University Parks, running past French school kids on some kind of exchange visit who were lolling on benches, or snogging sulkily under the trees. 6 repeats of 60s sprints, with 90s rest…
On not being ready…
It’s week 15…. or week eeeeep!…. and I’m surprised by how calm I’m feeling. I truly was expecting to be more stressed. I’m tapering – which means running in short, sharp bursts – and resting. Marathon day is a mere 10 days away, and I’m feeling….. well. I’m feeling ready. I had a little worry,…
March miles….and the bends.
I’ve just looked up my miles for March, to answer a question George asked in our On The Wagon Facebook group. How many miles did you all run in March? And my answer… “only 65.8 miles”. Only. I mean, that’s at least 30 miles short of what I’d have done if the knee hadn’t had…
Putting in the work
I’m going to write this today, before whatever’s going to happen tomorrow happens. The knee is improving – not quite better yet; it still doesn’t function well as a spring or a pivot, but provided all it’s asked to do is hinge the big bones in my leg, it’s fine. Unseen bumps in the road,…
You’ve never had it so good…
Yeah, well I see now that I’d more or less jinxed this marathon training malarkey. It was all too easy – I didn’t get ill, I didn’t skip sessions (well. Two sessions. But that’s pretty good going), I didn’t hurt myself early on when the miles were building. I let myself off too early, a…
Morning fuel
I’ve always been a morning runner. I simply can’t get my act/energy/interest together to run after 12pm, and experience has taught me that it’s altogether better if I just roll with this. Typically, I set my kit out the night before, get up and into my running clothes, and leave the house before I’ve woken…
Gold stars
One of the best ideas from the training session at The Alzheimer’s Society in London, a couple of weeks ago, was to end every week by pulling out three positives. That way, the thinking goes, when you’re approaching the big day and full of the maranoia, you can look back over your training journal and…
Running Between The Water Stations 