50000steps.co.uk » anxiety http://www.50000steps.co.uk Help me raise funds for Alzheimer's Society Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Floored by illness…again http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/09/08/floored-by-illnessagain/ http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/09/08/floored-by-illnessagain/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:30:14 +0000 Simon http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/09/08/floored-by-illnessagain/ The week before last was a complete washout, training-wise. I came down with some stomach bug over the bank holiday weekend and had to suspend all training whilst I recovered. So that explains the lack of posts recently.

You’d think by missing out on something so tiring I would be happy, but the lack of training played heavy on my mind. Mainly my concern was how missing out on a week’s worth of training would affect my ability to compete in the marathon. It may be several weeks away, but I don’t do enough training now, there’ll be no point competing, because I know I won’t have the strength or resources to complete it.

]]> http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/09/08/floored-by-illnessagain/feed/ 0 The Big One: The day before http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/05/26/the-big-one-part-one/ http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/05/26/the-big-one-part-one/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 18:59:51 +0000 Simon http://www.50000steps.co.uk/2008/05/26/the-big-one-part-one/ On Saturday, my parents and me took the journey up to Edinburgh. I was very nervous and anxious – The gravity of what I had signed up for became more and more apparent the closer I got to Edinburgh. Previously, I had managed this by simply ignoring these feelings, but now this was impossible. The closer it got to the day, the more anxious I was getting.

The day before I had to go to an exhibition in order to pick my race day kit – including my race number to pin onto my vest (9393 in case you’re interested), a timing chip to wear around my ankle and some other bits and pieces.

The rest of the exhibition was mainly devoted to charities and other marathons. At the exit I got two free potatoes from the marathons’ main sponsor (Albert Bartlett, grower of root vegetables) – great carbs! After that we went back to our hotel and found somewhere to eat.

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