Keeping with the 80′s top cheese theme, I couldn’t resist the reference to the fact that I HAVE ONLY ONE MONTH TO GO!!!! Oh crap. Oh crappity crap. This is getting serious now! Before I’ll know it I’ll be on the plane and the final preparations will be underway. Time to take stock of how I [...]

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…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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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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The Liverpool players knew they had been lucky to survive the Champions League qualifier against Standard Liege last night. Once again they put me through torture in Europe! Part of me wasn’t too bothered if we’d gone out, strangely enough. The rationale was that a) if that’s the way we’re going to play then we’re [...]

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He’s back…hopefully for good!!! Every day from Friday, I’ve been getting up and doing my inner quad exercises for twenty minutes. It’s actually quite painful and drags on and on, but it seems to be working.  Yesterday, I did about thirty minutes’ walking on the treadmill without much reaction, so I decided to risk a [...]

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On Thursday, I went to another sports physio recommended to me by my friend. Yet again, on the day I went, my knee decided to feel much better, but I went along expecting him to confirm the doctor’s diagnosis of an inflamed tendon. Guess what? The doctor was wrong. This physio seemed to know exactly [...]

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I’m going teetotal until after the marathon!!! That’s two and a half months of no drinking. Not a drop will pass my lips until after I’ve run the 26.2 miles in November. Farewell Foster’s. Bye bye Budweiser. Auf Wiedersehen vodka Red Bull. So why am I doing this? Is it really going to help? Well, [...]

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I went to the doctor’s this morning after getting a surprising 9:10 appointment. He examined my knee by prodding and poking around, and after finding that I had very little pain with this, announced although I didn’t have a serious problem, I did have an inflamed tendon. Good that it’s been diagnosed, bad that I’ve [...]

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As my knee was feeling much better, I decided I’d try another run tonight. Buoyed by the arrival of my funky new knee support, I was hoping for a pain-free run on the flat, at a slow pace, in the dry. Well, I got the flat and slow bit right! It drizzled on my way [...]

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It’s official: Michael Phelps is the Olympian with the most gold medals (11). Not bad by the ripe old age of 23!! I wonder how many he can go on and get? I think he’ll get his other three later in these Games and achieve perfection here, before going on to London and beyond, picking [...]

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