by Julie

Trying to act like a marathoner while on holidays

Greetings from sunny Malta! It’s a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, below Sicily, so it’s hot. Really hot. 30 by day, 25 by night. Not conducive to running but very conducive to lolling about, eating pizza and drinking during the day. However, I am conscious that I am due to run a marathon in 5 weeks and so have got out running on Sunday and this morning. Sunday was overcast, but there was blazing sunshine this morning so I found the shade as much as possible, and ignored the looks of all the people strolling…
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by Julie

Always something

18 miles was on the plan for Saturday so I spent all day Friday drinking water. I had a nice pasta snack before I went to bed and was feeling good on Saturday morning. We had a nice gang of people running and it was a lovely morning, cool and sunny. We decided to follow as much of the marathon route as possible, which is always a good idea. Everything was going great till around Bushy Park, 9 or 10 miles in, when my knee started acting up. Sore and annoying. A quick stretch helped…
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by Julie

No heroics

Nothing fancy tonight. 3 miles on the flat to see how my knees held up. I did 3 on Monday evening also and my knees weren’t too bad but not pain- free either. The right knee is worse and I felt a nice sharp pain in the knee-cap after a mile tonight which made me stop and turn around. I got another 2 out of it but I’d say any longer and it would have been worse. I came home and did some foam rolling and my quads are very sore in spots. I’m going…
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by Julie

Putting one foot in front of the other

So my poor dad passed away on Saturday 10 August 2019. I was lucky enough to be with him, with my sister, and we told him we loved him and that it was ok to go. I know he could hear us, even though he was on a lot of drugs at the end. It’s all still very sad and unreal and I really think it’s only starting to hit me now. Despite that I have been running in the last four weeks, sticking to the plan as best I can. I ran the morning…
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