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Recent tweetsI was very apprehensive about todays run. The last training session I did, on Friday, left me totally knackered – and it was only 45 minutes long. At the end of it, my feet felt like they were on fire. After that experience, I was in two minds about whether to go running today or whether to skip todays run to give me a longer chance to rest. In the end, though, I’m glad I did. Read the rest of this entry »
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Today I got up at 5:20am to do the first of several 60-minute runs, which I’ll be doing every Wednesday until the marathon. After an exhausting run on Monday, which I could barely complete, I wasn’t looking forward to this one. I changed my usual course to run around the headland and towards the Spa, as I am starting to get bored with running through Peasholm Park and around the North Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s training session was just that: wet and windy. This was my second “Tempo” session, where the idea is to run for a set period, then rest for an equal period and repeat the cycle a given number of times. So today it was six three-minute sessions. Just minutes after I started, the weather changed from cool and bright to horrible driving rain and what felt like gale force winds. Read the rest of this entry »
On the weekend, as part of Digital Scarborough ‘08, I took part in an event called the Codeathon. Basically, this involved several of Scarborough’s creative community coming together and attempting to build two websites from scratch (almost – we were using Joomla! as our CMS) for two local charities.
The whole event was streamed live (in parts) over the internet, where you can even catch a glimpse of me interviewing one of the founders of the Joomla! project, Brian Teeman. Watch it now!
One thing about running in a marathon in Summer is that you have to put in a lot of training over the Winter months. In a country like Britain, with our unique weather, this can be risky and sometimes downright dangerous (black ice, anyone?). Combine this with our practice of putting clocks back and forward and the result is a lot of time spent running in the dark. Read the rest of this entry »