Category: Running
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In 90th place: not Lionel Messi
Well that’s that then. 10 Scouse kilometres covered, my first race proper for nearly two years completed. Liverpool City Centre to New Brighton, all the way under the River Mersey and out onto the other side, into the wind and rain on The Wirral. 6.2 miles taking in some of…
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A real race with real people
It’s been a good week since I posted my tale of (entirely self-imposed) woe last Wednesday. I have achieved quite a lot I think. For a start, there has – thankfully – been no repeat of the cider catastrophe. I’ve been pretty healthy all round actually. I even had a…
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Cider on/training off
I have often wondered what could have been had I discovered that I was actually pretty decent at running about 10 years before I actually did. After all, the kid that used to live next door to my Aunt and Uncle that I used to occasionally hang around with now…
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Yesterday I completed my first marathon
Kind of. Actually, not really. Not at all in all honesty. Well, I did. But also I didn’t. Essentially, yesterday, at around 5:35pm, I completed my 26th mile. Time to congratulate myself? Crack the champagne out? Roll out the bunting and party poppers? Not really. Yes, it was my 26th…
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“You don’t need a ferry to cross the Mersey”
After watching the video flyby of the Liverpool Marathon route last week, realistically I had a number of options. I could have sat down in a darkened room and openly wept about my self-imposed misfortune. I could have manned up and stoically faced my fears, eye to eye, mano a marathon. I…
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Things like this are surely only made to put you off
Just take a look at this: http://www.runliverpoolmarathon.co.uk/the-course/route-flythrough-video/ Seriously, WTF? Why make something like this? And then email me to tell me to look at it? Quote from email: “If you’re looking for inspiration then take a look at the flythrough video on the web site that takes you around the…
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Farewell, old friends
The magnitude of what I am putting myself through really hit home this week. I’ve started building up my mileage a bit to the start of the training plan in June, but started to get a few niggly aches and strains. Turns out my running shoes are knacked. So I…
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So I signed up for a marathon…
After saying for months (if not years) that I would go for one, and always coming up with an excuse as to why I couldn’t do it, I had one too many glasses of wine on Thursday evening while reading about the Liverpool Marathon and I appear to have coughed up…
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