…Wooooooaaah livin’ on a prayer! Take my…………Ahem. Got a bit carried away there! So what do these lyrics from the slice of pure 80s cheese have got to do with anything? Well, it’s in honour of me achieving a half marathon today. 13.1 miles is long way, and it took me a long time on [...]

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Today I had my first ever interview with the press. I was contacted by a company on behalf on my charity, Dreams Come True, to ask if I would be willing to be interviewed about my New York marathon run for their charity, in order to promote the event and Dreams. If accepted, the story [...]

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Brief update of my training in the last week (all on the treadmill): Sat 13th: Six miles. Pushed it a mile further than the new schedule as I felt progress with my knee was good and needed to get more miles in. Mon 15th: Four miles. A bit braindead after the first day of my [...]

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Regular readers (I’m sure I have at least one!) will have noticed a lack of posts from me for a while. The reason? I’ve been doing an intense PRINCE2 training course all week, so between that and the running I’ve been doing little else. I was warned that the course would be intense and that [...]

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According to my Nike+ gadget, I’ve now done 100 miles of training…wahoo! Sure, I’d liked to have done double that by now, but it’s an achievement nevertheless. Note that I’ve probably been out of action for at least six weeks of the four months since I started training, each time having to slowly come back [...]

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It’s been a busy week for me so far, with seemingly not much time in the evenings, but I managed to fit in two runs on consecutive days. Three miles yesterday and three today. All on my treadmill, and all in relative comfort. I’ve now got less than two months to go, and talking about [...]

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I was up north at the weekend, which meant two things: rain and hills (I’m sure my friends would offer a third – gravy!) Rain I don’t mind, but I was advised to avoid hills for the moment as they could give my knee problems. After my two good, small runs in the week I [...]

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