What can I say, I’m writing this the day after my first attempt at a Half Marathon and I truly feel like I have been hit by a train. My hips are so sore and out of alignment that it’s not funny, and I am waddling around like a drunken cowboy who’s been in the saddle for weeks. But I don’t care cos I...
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…partly because my daughter is at her Grandparents for the weekend, partly because it’s raining – again, but mostly as it’s a good way to stop thinking about tomorrow. It’s my first Half Marathon. Eek! Okay, deep breath. I’ve got up to 9.6 miles on my long runs with Cathy, I can do this,...
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I went to the Doctors last week, not sure if I told you before but I have been having some trouble with my hip, well I call it my hip, it’s at the top of my leg on the left hand side. Turns out it is my Iliac Crest. I’m pretty certain this goes back ten years to when I was expecting my beloved daughter and stumbled...
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Having spent most of December ‘on the bench’ due to a virus I recently managed a Boxing Day run followed by a New Year run yesterday. It was something I needed to do to get my head back in the right place. It struck me whilst out running that physical fitness isn’t all that comes to bear when running,...
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A few weeks ago you may recall I was wibbling about taking part in a 10k with a hill. Whilst the hill was part of the wibble, the 6 miles was also a contributing factor, having only covered between 2 and 4 miles on my recent local runs. Of course, I listened to my friends who told me I could do it, and now a few weeks later am in...
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I’ve had a bit of an epiphany in my running this past couple of weeks that I certainly wasn’t expecting. I have started to really enjoy the act of running, rather than just the finishing running. I knew it was bound to happen, how else could there be so many enthusiastic and happy runners out there, I just...
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