Tag: Paris Marathon

13 March 2014

Turn your can’ts into cans and your dreams into plans.

March 13th 2014 Here is today’s IDEAfit photo a day image: The theme was success, so I’ve chosen a photo from a year ago – it was taken after Kirsty and I had completed Paris Marathon. How do you define success? I’m currently going for tiny goals as they are so much more attainable than aiming too high and then...

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8 April 2013

The big day arrived

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

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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18 February 2013

So how did Bramley go?

As Bramley 20 didn’t start until 10:30am, I was able to get up relatively late for a race day. This was good as I didn’t get to bed until 11:30pm the night before, which is very late for me. I decided to have porridge for breakfast but ran out of time to make carrot cake porridge. In the end,  I...

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15 February 2013

Nearly 35

In 9 days time, I will be 35 and I’m dissatisfied with my life. Despite losing weight before my 30th birthday, I’ve put nearly all of it back on and I’m not as fit as I’d like to be, so I’ve decided to set myself a five-year challenge: BY THE TIME I’M 40 I’M GOING TO DO AN IRONMAN TRIATHLON...

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