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 ...

We are now approaching the time where people training for spring marathons are hitting their biggest distances in training, and I am one of those people, sort of. I entered Brighton marathon in a blur of activity on the UKRunchat twitter page, where being egged on by various members, a load of us, I think about 50+, all entered Brighton marathon in the space of a few days. I was training for an Ultra at the time so it was a case of ' it should be alright, I'll be training for further than this distance so I know I'll be able to do it' but fast forward a few months and the ankle injury happened, which wiped me out for 8 months, meaning that I missed a few races that I'd already entered, but in the distance there was always 'Brighton' and the belief that I had time to get ready for it and give it a proper go. After being given the sort of all clear by the physio to start running just before Christmas, I have been slowly increasing the distance of my run...