Flashback: it's 2010 and I'm sat in a Travelodge in Brighton trying to force down a packet of Hoola Hoops and a Muller Rice before I'm done for the evening. It's 8pm and carb loading hasn't been everything I'd hoped and dreamed it would be.That was the eve before my first marathon. I'd been excited at [...]
Are you suffering from trouble sleeping, phantom leg pains and reoccurring dreams? Then you too may be suffering from taper madness. Don't worry though, it's 100% curable with just one dose of running a marathon. I'm booked in for treatment on Sunday and I'm told it will take about 4 hours.It can't come soon enough. [...]
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 [...]