235 Days

Last week I watched the film 'Unbreakable' at the Curzon cinema in Richmond, it was at an event put on by Lululemon and found out about it via twitter, like most things these days. If you haven't seen Unbreakable you really should, it's a great film about the Western States 100, a legendary 100 miler in the US and the main contenders for the winners buckle one particular year. Anyway, after watching the film it's hard not to feel slightly inspired and invincible. I got back home and started looking at Ultra races, like you do, despite my last attempt not going to plan, and also despite the fact that since running Brighton marathon about six weeks ago I have barely run, a 10k and a few 5k. The main reason for this is that since Brighton, although maybe before but I hadn't noticed it, after running anything between 3-7k I feel like I'm running lop-sided and it feels uncomfortable, I prescribed myself a week of complete rest, not even getting back into ...

Run a marathon they said.... So, you may have noticed that Brighton Marathon was 9 days ago, so obviously this is the perfect time to write about my 1st marathon experience (yeah I know, I'll be writing about the  half marathons I did in March soon). In other words, don't always expect this blog to be totally on the ball with write ups etc. I signed up for Brighton marathon in a flurry of excitement when two of my favourite people on UKRunChat, @Digdeepdolly and @Jofwise announced they were signing up for their 1st marathons and seemingly were getting loads of people, myself included, to also join them for Brighton marathon. In truth all it took was a tweet from @digdeepdolly which basically said "goooooooo oooooooon doooooooooo iiiiiiiiiiitttttttt', which, looking back shows I didn't actually take much persuasion or somehow she's very persuasive by adding lots of vowels to words. As mentioned elsewhere on this blog, it all seemed very far away, then ...