Ultra Training Week 7: Frustration
While last weekend I was hopeful I was over the worst of the injury and on the mend, this week I seem to be back to square one. I probably pushed it too much on my 10 mile run last weekend, and should...
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Ultra Training Week 8: Physio
This week has been another mostly frustrating one in terms of injury, but there has been some light at the end of the tunnel! February has been a total right off since I did the Longman Trail Race on...
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Ultra Training Week 12: Reverse Taper
Ideally at this stage of training I would have been having a couple of lower mileage taper weeks before the Manchester Marathon, but as my mileage has been non-existent to low for the few weeks of...
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Ultra Training Week 15
So somehow it’s less than 5 weeks until ultra day- eek! I also found out this week that it is on May 24th not the 25th as I originally thought, which means my parents who were going to come to cheer on...
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Loxley Sports Kinesiology Tape
I got quite a bad injury in Feb/March time and I couldn’t walk without severe pain for about 6 weeks or so. I finally paid a trip to an awesome sports physio, who immediately told me I had damaged the...
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Berlin Marathon Training Week 12
I’m not even sure if this is worth documenting any more as there is so little running going on in my life right now! This week saw me run 3 miles, taking my grand total mileage to August to a massive...
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Letting go (or not) of Berlin
One week ago, I was hobbling home after 2 miles of another failed run, my ITBS had flared up again and my knee was really hurting. I pathetically sobbed the mile walk home, and knew that a decision on...
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