Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
With that in mind, it was time to get on with it! Months of training, changes to diet […]
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I woke up Sunday morning, 6:00am to have something to eat. I was not going to get caught out again with the diet thing. I had spent the week, carb-loading and was feeling a bit stuffed. A Weetabix and a honey covered bagel were my poison before I slowly and reluctantly got […]
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Its Sunday. Its 6am. It can only mean one thing…..I’m bloody knackered!!
So this it, all the training, the generous sponsorship by you guys and the final week of grumpy carb loading (sorry Suz!). I’d love to say I’m sitting here ready to go, feeling great and happy with the prep that I’ve […]
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The last week has been tough, carb-loading is hard. I can only equate it to a turkey getting ready for Christmas. Eating bread, pasta, oatcakes, oat bars, lucozade, water, etc. all the time is tough going and I reckon I have put on about 4 pounds!
Thank you to all the messages of good […]
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Map
Route
Eastfield » Edinburgh Road » New Street » Promenade » Links View » New Street (and back)
Distance
2.0 miles
Time
My 8:58 Pace for 2.0 miles should be 17:56, today was (8:56, 9:02), ran 9:00 pace and the total was 17:59 (+0:03)
Stops
0
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Still no iPod, I think I may have found a donor. It was very close today […]
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Marathon week is here, Tuesday 3 miles.
Map
Route
Eastfield » Musselburgh Road » Seaview Terrace » Promenade » Bottom of Figgate Lane (and back)
Distance
3.0 miles
Time
Pace for 3.0 miles should be 26:54, today was (8:42, 8:22, 8:57), ran 8:41 pace and the total was 26:02 (-0:52)
Stops
0
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Bags of energy in the first mile, back to normal in the third […]
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A good rest day on Friday was really needed (sore from Thursday nights cross training) and the plan to go for my last big run while Jack was at Grandma and Granddad’s on Saturday was soon scrapped for various reasons. I was too sore, injured, tired and it was pouring of rain. A […]
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Nearly there
Route
Easter Road » Leith Links » Seafield Road » Portobello Prom » Musselburgh Road » Edinburgh Road » Just past work » Return
Distance
10 miles. Or 9.9 miles. Pretty sure it was 10!
Time
1 hr 26 mins. Or 86 minutes. Works out at an average speed or 1 mile every […]
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First of all, before I get into it, a big congratulations to Chris for his run. He did really well to manage as many miles as he did. Well done mate.
So here I am, the Beast has arrived. Three varying warm-up runs for it (1, 2, 3), one average, one great and […]
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The first of three 5 mile runs runs which form this weeks trilogy before The Beast at the weekend
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Route
Eastfield » Milton Road East » Milton Link » Cycle path from Milton Link to Duddingston Park South » Across Duddingston Park South crossing » Innocent Railway cycle path between Bingham and Craigmillar until Duddingston […]
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