Category: Liverpool 2011
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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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