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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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Marathon Ready!
This time tomorrow I will be somewhere on the Manchester Marathon course. It’s been a pretty torrid few months with the injury, but I’m happy to say I will make it to the start line in one piece! It...
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Manchester Marathon 2014
“If that was a real fire alarm, you would be dead” Marathon day began with a rude awakening at 1.30am, as the fire alarm in our hotel went off, I spent ages in a confused state before realising what...
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Ultra Training Week 14
I woke up on Monday post Manchester marathon with the sorest quads I’ve ever had in my life and an inability to move my neck- not sure if that was marathon related or sleeping awkwardly! I did my usual...
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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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Ultra Training Week 17
This week is my final higher mileage week before I start tapering down for London 2 Brighton in less than 3 weeks! Ideally my last long run would have taken place today, but I’m doing it as the Milton...
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MK Marathon 2014
You can’t control the uncontrollables– this was the motto that I had to keep in mind for this race. There was National Rail train works over the bank holiday which meant I had to get up at 5.30am for...
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Ultra Training Week 18
Less than 2 weeks to go now until Ultra D-day! This week has been a massive confidence boost training wise and I’m now ready to taper and head into the big day feeling fresh! Mon: Milton Keynes...
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Ultra Training Week 19- Taper
That week absolutely flew by, my training has massively dropped this week as I’ve started my taper for race day, which is just 6 days away ARGH!! Mon: Upper Body Weights/Core Tues: 6 mile Run + 3.5...
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London 2 Brighton 56k
As the alarm went off at 4.30am on Saturday I hauled myself from the pillow after 3 hours sleep and realised it was finally race day-the time that I had been training 6 months for! I wolfed some...
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