Getting yourself race ready isn't complicated. Hard, yes. But complicated, no. There's really only three things you need to remember: eat, sleep, run. And so with just 32 days until Edinburgh Marathon I've written myself a post-it as a reminder to take these things seriously.EatRemembering to eat isn't hard, you try and stop me forgetting. [...]
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 [...]
The Thames from Richmond HillIt's one of life's hilariously cruel ironies that the times when you need to run most are always the times when you want to do it the least. Hangovers often see me clawing at the carpet as Lazy Boy or some other good-intentioned person tries to shuv me out the door [...]
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 [...]
This weekend I ran 10 miles. I've run this far before but yesterday found it much more difficult. My right ankle was sore from wearing heels on Saturday night for the first time in months, but this wasn't the main problem. What I found difficult was having no energy.When I got home the problem soon [...]