Many reasons why this post is so entitled… It’s about confidence; it’s about survival; it’s about I am, I am, I am. At the end of last year, I was reading the Run Mummy Run Facebook group, where people were discussing their annual stats. And I wondered – I genuinely did – how they knew….
Tag: long run
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…
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,…
Swearing allowed…
Well. It seems I didn’t update on last week – perhaps because it was difficult to pull out positives… The week began with a set of two 25 minute threshold intervals. I set out to do them before work on Tuesday morning, in Oxford. Sadly, the traffic prevailed and I arrived at work without an hour…
Ooops
I missed a weekend update. Which is a shame, because it was actually a bloomin’ good weekend, from a training and pretty much an every other point of view… I took myself into Oxford on Saturday morning, with the intention of running the route of the Oxford Half Marathon. My training plan said 140 minutes,…
Wandering winter wonders…
Oh, spring marathon! With your 16 week training schedule and your athlete-focussed approach! How little you have to say in all your brochures and glossy bits of puff about that greatest of British variables… winter weather. I suppose for much of the 7 weeks since Christmas, we have actually been particularly blessed. It’s been a…
Long run, reflections and stars
Yesterday’s long run was two cold, exposed, wind-swept, rain-drenched hours. Two hours! TWO!! I set a course crossing the A40, down to South Leigh, through Eynsham and eventually meeting the patient and wonderful Mr P in Barnard’s Gate for a short ride home. There’s a lot of time to fill, in two hours, and…
Roaring into the wind
It’s been a funny old week; heralded in by a storm pulling half the guttering off the front of the house which woke us up at 4am, and see-sawed its way into a migraine-filled, dehydrated, wakeful dawn. Heralded out by winds and rain and my longest ever long run… The migraine knocked my training out….
Run the Nunnery
Today has been a big day!! For three reasons. First, I swapped sessions around and did my long slow run today. I’ll do hills on Saturday. It’s been difficult to find long run routes that I feel happy doing early in the morning, given the weather (icy, cold, miserable) and the need to get from…
Running Between The Water Stations 