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Five days on since the Marathon and only now am I beginning to return to normal. After the Marathon I went up to the Fountain Spa (Kings Manor) with my Dad. I had 4 swims, 2 sauna visits and 2 jacuzzi’s.
On Sunday night and Monday, I was numb from the waist down. […]

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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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Ladies, may we have a total please…

Thanks girls.
Thank you to some overnight sponsoring and a nice chunk of donation this morning from Suz’s work, we have just beaten the £3000 barrier. Amazing. I am speechless.
A big thank you to all 162 163 165 donations we have received, that’s incredible and lets hope we […]

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Last night I got a call from Chris, apparently The Sun had been on the phone. They had managed to track Chris down, not quite sure how and he had done an interview on the phone with a reporter.
We then had a photo shoot with a Sun photographer in Leith Links where we once […]

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Well, quicker than we thought, we made it into Saturday’s Edinburgh News. A great write up and a smashing photo. For some reason, I suggested Rose check the website on Saturday and it was in, otherwise we might have missed it. Chris’ head also made the front cover and the front page […]

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After a little bit of interest from the press earlier in the week, we had almost forgotten about it. Chris phoned me at lunchtime today, the Edinburgh News wanted to do a Photo Shoot today, somewhere relevant to where we run. Chris suggested Portobello Beach as we both regularly run there. No […]

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