Help me raise funds for Alzheimer's Society
Recent tweetsFrom here on in the run was fairly standard. I was expecting the field to thin out a little the further up the pack I moved, but with approximately 11,000 runners competing, there was sign of this happening. I had deliberately tried to keep to a natural pace and not go too fast. After I rounded the turning point at Claremont Crescent, about half a kilometre after the halfway point, I decided to really let my legs open up and start running, rather than jogging.
A long time ago, it feels like now, I applied for the London Marathon. Then I applied for the Leeds 10k as well. Unfortunately, I didn’t get in to the London Marathon and ran the Edinburgh Marathon instead. however, this only left three weeks to recover and train again for the Leeds 10k. Which is what brought me to Leeds city centre yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Just a quick note to say that I successfully completed the Leeds 10k in 1:01:23. I’ll be posting a complete account of my run later.
After the marathon I took a couple of days of to recover and to regroup. For the rest of that week, I was on a high. I was surprised by how soon I recovered. Within three days of the event my muscles had stopped aching and I didn’t feel overly tired or exhausted at all. One of the decisions I made that week was to run another marathon. I couldn’t start training immediately for one, however, because I had already committed to running in another event.
So the focus has switched to my next fundraising event: the Leeds 10k. I applied for this before I applied for the London Marathon and before I had even heard of the Edinburgh Marathon (I ran in Edinburgh because I couldn’t get into London). Read the rest of this entry »