What was I saying about watching the sun come up in the morning? Talk about shot my mouth off this weekend - cloud, drizzle and rain all the way...
Thanks to our dodgy landlord having not registered this address (so he doesn’t have to pay council tax and other things) my attempt on Saturday to get mobile internet failed as our address wasn’t on their database. It’s been the same deal with trying to get a phone line put in for a landline phone, cable tv and home internet...
Anyway, Sunday morning and another long run to do. Since the knee issues that started in Jan, I’ve not done a run over 2hrs until this today’s. 2hrs 15mins all up and only 2kms more than the half marathon the other week. I’ve been told that the atmosphere and crowd along the London marathon route will ‘carry’ you for much of the marathon. I now know that this is what happened back in Reading for the half marathon, because today’s run was much harder to cover just over the same distance in just over 20minutes more. Then again, 20+knot winds and constant rain may have had something to do with it too - I’m hoping that the weather’s much kinder for the main event!!
Everything’s still intact this time, which is a plus, even if it just aches at the moment. It’s funny... getting the muscles through it has been fine and cardio fitness isn’t an issue, but to get the joints (well, mostly one main one) through it is a different matter.
With only four weeks left til the Marathon, I could be looking at a very LONG second half of it unless I can get in some good niggle free long runs in the next two weekends.
And because I know you’re in a generous mood today... http://www.justgiving.com/aussierunner
Thanks to our dodgy landlord having not registered this address (so he doesn’t have to pay council tax and other things) my attempt on Saturday to get mobile internet failed as our address wasn’t on their database. It’s been the same deal with trying to get a phone line put in for a landline phone, cable tv and home internet...
Anyway, Sunday morning and another long run to do. Since the knee issues that started in Jan, I’ve not done a run over 2hrs until this today’s. 2hrs 15mins all up and only 2kms more than the half marathon the other week. I’ve been told that the atmosphere and crowd along the London marathon route will ‘carry’ you for much of the marathon. I now know that this is what happened back in Reading for the half marathon, because today’s run was much harder to cover just over the same distance in just over 20minutes more. Then again, 20+knot winds and constant rain may have had something to do with it too - I’m hoping that the weather’s much kinder for the main event!!
Everything’s still intact this time, which is a plus, even if it just aches at the moment. It’s funny... getting the muscles through it has been fine and cardio fitness isn’t an issue, but to get the joints (well, mostly one main one) through it is a different matter.
With only four weeks left til the Marathon, I could be looking at a very LONG second half of it unless I can get in some good niggle free long runs in the next two weekends.
And because I know you’re in a generous mood today... http://www.justgiving.com/aussierunner
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