Fat Girl to Ironman

25 April 2013

The Running School

I entered a running competition on Twitter and was fortunate enough to win three free sessions with The Running School – yay! Paul, the coach at The Running School, had already given me a free session for the promotional work that I did for The Running School, so I’m getting a great deal 🙂 I did my first session on...

Categories Running Comments: 2

25 April 2013

First RR10 of the season – Royal Victoria Country Park

Yesterday was the first RR10 of the season. My first race with Lordshill was the last RR10 of the 2011 season. Last year I struggled because I had so many injuries, so I’d like to do well this year. Getting my excuses in early I knew that I wouldn’t be able to run well for a variety of reasons. These include...

Categories Running Comments: 0

8 April 2013

The big day arrived

As I expected, I did not sleep well before the Paris Marathon. I have been reading Paula Radcliffe’s autobiography. She clarified that the night before the marathon is not the most important, so I wasn’t too worried. I could not have my usual breakfast (porridge), but Kirsty and I had bought some plastic storage pots, so I had a bowl...

Categories Running/Travel Comment: 1

6 April 2013

Marathon de Paris Expo

Ok, so we arrived in Paris yesterday and settled into our lovely, luxurious hotel. Despite being in the centre of the city it is fairly quiet, the bed is comfortable and the pillows are amazing. However, my leg still hurts 🙁 Carb-loading We settled ourselves in and then went out to meet Di, Mike, Patrick and Angela for dinner. They...

Categories Running Comments: 0

4 April 2013

Send me all of your positive thoughts

This afternoon, I went for my second massage session of the day, with ultrasound therapy and then some Kinesio taping. I’m not entirely convinced that the taping will do any good, but I figure it can’t do any harm. I’m willing to try anything. Stuart often refers to me as his ‘little peach’ as I bruise very easily. Today my...

Categories Running Comment: 1

4 April 2013

Will I be able to run in Paris?

I’ve not posted for a few days as I’ve not been very motivated. I ran hard at parkrun but was nowhere near my goal… probably because I was tired from Friday’s 13-mile run and had eaten badly for most of the week. In the afternoon, Stuart and I went into town to get our names put on our marathon tops....

Categories Running Comments: 0

4 April 2013

Easter running

OK, so yesterday was Good Friday which meant that I had a day off work… which also meant a day off swimming as the University swimming pool was closed. I arranged to meet up with Di and Kirsty for a final long run before Paris. We met at 10am and then went for a 21.02k run, from The Common to...

Categories Running Comments: 2

28 March 2013

Failure to plan is like planning to fail

Today started out quite well. I went to RunCamp and as there was no-one else there, I had a private session. We should have been focussing on breathing. That was OK on Tuesday and I’ve got a slight cold, so Ant asked what I wanted to work on. I wasn’t sure, so we decided to go back to some drills...

Categories Cycling/Running/Swimming Comments: 5

28 March 2013

Meeting the nutritionist

I didn’t exercise yesterday as I hurt my knee at RunCamp, instead, I worked from home and tried not to move about too much. However, this morning I made myself cycle to work and tried not to eat too many bad snacks before seeing the nutritionist at 4:30pm. Results from the nutritionist were quite surprising. It turns out that my...

Categories Nutrition/Swimming Comments: 4

26 March 2013

Eastleigh 10k and my 400m swimming time!

By Friday evening I was desperate for a break. I had a busy weekend planned with a yoga class, parkrun and Eastleigh 10k. After arriving home from work, I really didn’t feel like going out again. I just wanted to go to bed, but I had a yoga class scheduled, so I had to make myself go out. We did...

Categories Running/Swimming Comments: 0