Week 3 of being back in training and this was the first week that I found a few mornings harder to wake up. This shouldn’t have been a surprise as it was a similar stage last time and is as my body getting used to being back in the regime....
So, after the surprise of London still working towards going ahead, week 2 of training needed to happen. For a long time I had expected week 1 wouldn’t happen and all of last week I was expecting it to be a flash in the pan. So digging out week 2...
Here we go again! When I first started marathon training last December I never expected I’d be starting again so soon. As I did that first week I was wondering how I’d deal with the training? Would I get injured? What would it be like crossing the finish line at...
So as I sit here writing this, I should have been on my way to Old Trafford. I’d have been picking up my race number, dropping my bag and then been ready to run my first ever marathon. The weather looks good and the crowds would have probably been huge....
I’d played over what would happen if my races were cancelled numerous times. So when they were, I was surprised to find my overarching feeling was relief. After a couple of weeks of fearing the worst, finally at just gone 5PM, on Friday 13th of all days, the confirmation came....
This has probably been one of the hardest weeks of training so far. Not necessarily because of the actual training. More that as the coronavirus issue gets bigger and bigger, so do my fears the races will not go ahead. It’s hard to see them going ahead with marathons in...
I don’t know if it is the fact I’m now on the home straight, or that I was back at work this week. However, the week has flown by and suddenly we’re down to just 5 weeks until the first Marathon. I won’t lie, I am starting to feel a...
Double figures! I saw the below meme this week and it summed up in a way how this week felt on the training cycle. Hitting double figures makes it seem that I’m almost there, despite only just being over halfway. That said, it was another week closer to the races...
After hitting half way last week, it’s now into the home straight. However, I know from the past, this can start to be the hardest section. The energy levels start to drop and there is still a long way to go. After a slightly disappointing training week, it was time...
In the words of Bon Jovi, “whoa we’re halfway there”! In some ways it doesn’t seem very long at all since I started this 16wk training plan. However, 8 weeks down and I am halfway to Manchester (and then London). After a new longest (again!) last Sunday, Monday was a...
