Mission accomplished: running my first marathon

Mission accomplished: running my first marathon It took two years and many hundreds of miles to get there, but on Sunday 18 April I crossed the finish line of my marathon. I'm not sure what I expected it to be like, but it wasn't how I imagined it would go. If you can believe this [...]

2019-09-30T13:58:12+01:0027 April 2010|

Carb loading: Dishes of the day

I'm a big fan of the Marathon Talk podcasts. They kept me company on a couple of my long runs and I've picked up quite a bit of information from them. One thing I learnt from Tom Williams and Martin Yelling nattering in my ear is how to carb load. I had assumed, like many [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:45+01:0015 April 2010|

Thank you

Blogging about my marathon mission has been as much a journey into the unknown as the training for the event itself. I once read somewhere that blogging was a lot like talking to yourself in an empty room - it's only the occasional comments from people that have stumbled upon your words than make you [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:46+01:008 April 2010|
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