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Recent tweetsNot that there seem to be many milkmen left these days. My run today was 70 minutes long, the longest so far for a mid-week training run. So in order to fit this run in before work, I got up at a quarter past five in the morning. Whilst I was eating porridge and watching the BBC Business Report (which is on before BBC Breakfast), I did note to myself how bizarre it felt to be up so early. Read the rest of this entry »
The wall, in this case, is a physical and psychological barrier well-known to marathon runners. Hitting the wall means you are running onempty, exhausted and totally drained of energy. During my Sunday run, I managed to successfully avoid hitting the wall by experimenting with energy supplements. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday I went running for the first time since I was floored by a sore throat and cold back-to-back. I was slighlty apprehensive about if I had recovered enough and how long it would take me to get back to my pre-illness training level, but I needn’t have worried too much. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been feeling pretty demotivated for the last two weeks thanks to me developing a sore throat a week ago and a cold straight after that. So I’ve had to take the last two weeks off from training, which has blown a hole in my schedule.
The problem is that I have eight weeks of training to do in six weeks. I’ve been feeling so despondent that I even considered pulling out of the marathon altogether and concentrating on the Leeds 10km (which I’ve also entered) later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
The last week has been something of a disaster when it comes to my training. I was unfortunate enough to catch a cold and when you’re training for a marathon with not a week to spare in your training schedule, this was a disaster. Attempting to train whilst ill is like kicking your body whilst it’s down. This was particularly demotivating because there are only 7 weeks until the marathon and only seven weeks of my training schedule left, so I really can’t afford any time off. This has cast my marathon attempt into doubt, as I will have to work twice as hard to get into shape by the time of the marathon. Read the rest of this entry »