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. [...]
On day three of my taper I woke up very tired; ducked out of a 3-mile race I'd challenged three much faster, non-tapering colleagues to; and then I did this...Edinburgh marathon 2012, see you Jimmy! London marathon is clearly going to reject me again in October and after Nottingham I'm not going to fancy entering [...]
Despite the best efforts of a tree root in tripping me up and a bus driver in trying to run me over, I made it round my final 20-mile run on Sunday. Now mileage starts to wind down as I slide down the slipppery slope of the tapering with nothing but a tea-tray that is my [...]
Thirteen weeks ago I started training for my first marathon. If I had known then that the UK was set to experience the coldest winter in 31 years, I may have reconsidered. But I didn't, so I didn't - and now, with all my long runs complete and just 19 days to go before I'm [...]
With two weeks to go until my half marathon this weekend saw the last of my long runs before the big day. I ran 11 miles on Saturday around Richmond Park and am now looking forward to a big reduction in the amount of miles I'll be doing and a big increase in the amount [...]