Everyone had told me that Edinburgh is a lovely city, but the orderly Georgian New Town still managed to surprise me with just how pleasing it was. Compared to London, the city is a manageable size and lacks that exhausting, demented frenzy of life down here. However, on the Friday morning we arrived , […]
With three days til race day, I’m ‘carbo loading‘ like crazy. That is, I’m trying to consumer even larger quantities of carbohydrate than usual, rather than eat coal, which is ‘carbon loading’. I had a final massage on my afflicted leg this morning, which left it covered in a menthol gel and feeling like a […]
This morning saw my final trip to the physio before Sunday’s date with destiny. It helped, because last night I ran for one hour forty minutes. I had been advised to do this by Rosie, the physio, but afterwards my knee hurt a bit more than it has done recently. Apparently, the quadricep had tightened […]
That’s what the physio said to me this morning when I asked her if I could run the Edinburgh Marathon this Sunday! ‘Yes’ Hurrah! Or should that be ‘Eeek! What have I let myself in for?’. The long and short of it is, that my horribly tight quads are not quite as short as they […]
