People that say "You'll be glad of the rain, it will cool you down" may be trying to be helpful, but have clearly not run a marathon, and definitely not run one in the rain. Wet running kit is heavy, it sticks to you and it chafes. That is not the ideal recipe for a [...]
Slightly annoyed with the Brighton Marathon organisers for making us go down there the day before the race to collect our number, SportyGirl and I decided we may as well enjoy our daytrip to the seaside. The decision not to send out race numbers in the post was clearly profit driven and designed to get [...]
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. [...]