Archive for the 'Running with it' Category

Around the Thames

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

It was a lovely morning for a run today, not too hot and not too cold. I got up early to go and stretch my pins on the Westminster Bridge/Tower Bridge run. Since the marathon in May I’ve been trying keep myself ticking over with run a couple of shorter runs each week, but this […]

Go Gaucho, go, go, go

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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 , […]

The loading has begun

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

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 […]

Let’s get physio

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

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 […]