Running

I have a warm rosy glow for Janathon at the moment. It’s done wonders for my fitness and given my marathon training the boost it very desperately needed. I woke up this morning, got kitted up for running and then spent the next 5 hours procrastinating, dithering and grumbling. I managed to tick off...
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I meant to run yesterday. All the way til midnight I was intending to run. But then the bells chimed unexpectedly and I’d missed my opportunity. My bones were aching from Day 14 and by the time I’d decided it might be a good idea to take a rest from running it was too...
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The day disappeared with itself yesterday. I’d planned a running commute which takes precision organisation and an evening without commitments but my boss had other plans and kept me back late. By the time I’d run home I had no energy for Jog, Log, Blog, all I could manage was the 3 B’s: Beer,...
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I couldn’t sleep last night so quit counting sheep and headed to the treadmill. Good job I did, I woke this morning with a crippling headache and couldn’t function all day, never mind run. Back to the wee hours of last night. I’m still dabbling with the treadmill profiles but this time I’m creating...
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I was tired and achy today and struggled to get myself near the treadmill. I fooled myself into thinking I was just clambering onboard for short loosening walk but once on I was attracted by the flashing lights and pushed the fatburn button. I trogged my way through a not very quick barefoot mile...
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Quite early on in the run I decided I was a lazy shuffler. I think the epiphany came 750m into my long run when a dandelion root and a barely lifted foot, sent me sprawling head first into a muddy verge. Any further into my run along the Wandle River and I would have...
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It feels as though I’ve done a lot of whingeing over the last 3 months. I’ve gone from chest infection to pulled calves to meniscal tears and it’s beginning to sound like I’m manufacturing my own get out of the London Marathon free card. It was rather convenient then that Craig Carroll contacted me...
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Well I’m still breathing but at Janathon Day 8 I’m finding it harder and harder to blog. Daily jogging is a doddle in a comparison to daily blogging. The pressure to find something worth sharing is building and it doesn’t get easier when I perform the run on the treadmill in the back room...
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I took my nordic poles into work today. I proper ummed and ahhed about it, but in the end I decided the health of my knee might be worth a bit of humiliation through Brixton. When the heavens opened, mid afternoon, I was so grateful, imagining empty streets in which I could gallop along,...
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The treadmill mounted a little skirmish today. It catapulted the little kitten off the end of the track and into the legs of a dining chair and then it did it’s absolute best to send me off in the exact same way. I normally bumble along at 7kph with a zero incline but today...
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